Example sentences of "[vb past] quite [art] few [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The architect most commonly associated with this work was George Baines who designed quite a few churches for Baptists .
2 We drew quite a few games away .
3 He scored quite a few goals , I remember one in particular against Arsenal in some cup game in the dying seconds of extra time ( there was still long enough for Arsenal to equalise though ) .
4 She knew , with a feeling of detachment , that she attracted quite a few stares herself , primarily from men , and that if she had not had André at her side she would have been in very real danger of having to concoct a few efficient exit lines .
5 ‘ At first I was the only guest wearing it , but I noticed quite a few others following suit . ’
6 Fill players like O'Grady and Hibbit , then later Bates and Yorath played quite a few games .
7 The influence of overseas coaches and players in rugby league has raised the standard of individual players enormously , and added quite a few numbers through the turnstiles .
8 When Eva took some of her black students to play the tambourine at a big meeting in Salisbury it raised quite a few eyebrows and temperatures .
9 Brian knows Brian knew everything more or less or arranged quite a few things anyway
10 er , but it needed quite a few repairs doing to it
11 Let us take it as read that Hawkwind started quite a few trends in their time .
12 Actually I saw so many women saw quite a few women up there .
13 I saw quite a few artists whom I wanted to represent on the trip .
14 The two sides may be called the Goths and the Greeks , and while the Goths won the war , the Greeks took quite a few battle honours .
15 Ward had his camera with him , and though he led me round at a breathless pace , talking all the time about the terrible religious cult of the Aztecs , he also took quite a few pictures , usually with myself or some other human in the foreground to give an indication of the scale of the place .
16 Dana Gillespie : ‘ DeFries always thought that in order for us to absorb musical culture as it should be from America , we should actually go and live in America , and it took quite a few months for it all to be organized .
17 And we before that we made quite a few runs to Kirkwall with a that was a small one that we had and erm you had to get the bus from Evie of course to Kirkwall and back the same way .
18 Although I hated the very idea of selling things to people who might not want to buy them ( even if it was good for them ) I made quite a few sales , the main commission deriving from the sale of a Group Insurance Scheme to 32 men from the Times-Herald staff .
19 I got quite a few things in there .
20 ‘ We got quite a few people giving us their old notes which was quite naughty — especially as the bank refused to change them . ’
21 I got quite a few kicks out of doing that .
22 I bought quite a few medicines actually .
23 ‘ With Susan we auditioned quite a few people before Carole Ann came in .
24 did quite a few graphs last time , and you 're good on algebra , manipulating things , you 're good on trig , vectors and matrices , how do you feel about those ?
25 Having come prepared with a warm coat , mackintosh , and umbrella , I braved the elements , and sat on the open stand to watch this enjoyable match , as did quite a few others .
26 Your dear brother left quite a few problems behind when he failed to take that corner .
27 Because he wrote quite a few letter in Welsh and he would dictate them to er Margaret .
28 She also had quite a few things two small Picassos and a picture by Robert Delaunay called ‘ The window ’ that Taírov was given when they were in Paris on tour together , and a very fine Yakulov .
29 At first I did n't mind doing it , but after two months I found out he had quite a few women .
30 ‘ My husband lived practically next door to a children 's home when he was young and had quite a few friends in there , ’ said Jackie .
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