Example sentences of "[was/were] quite [art] few [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of the locals watching remembered when all the schoolchildren assembled to watch the ceremony ; there were quite a few groups of children there that day , with notebooks , pencils and teachers . |
| 2 | However you said there were quite a few families with twelve |
| 3 | There were quite a few South Africans within the Opera-Ballet during John 's time there . |
| 4 | There were quite a few customers even this early in the morning . |
| 5 | And there were quite a few members had started coming from up the lane and some of the people . |
| 6 | There were quite a few battles before Pearce got British Aerospace on the road to privatisation , particularly with civil servants and ‘ officials who were not really responsible , but tended to sit on the sidelines criticising and always coming up with a reason why you could n't do anything . ’ |
| 7 | There were quite a few nomes behind Nisodemus . |
| 8 | As I said last year , there were quite a few people out on the walkways , so it was very rarely you got anybody walking through . |
| 9 | We were n't charged anything for the food , so we were there as guests , although everybody else was working but we was given the most comfortable er room to stay , so it , there were quite a few people living there because of this reason , that er people coming from outside looking for a job , they would automatically er obtain the accommodation without being charged for it . |
| 10 | There were quite a few people about , women as well as men , nearly all Indians , some of them on mules . |
| 11 | As it was only eleven thirty in the morning there were quite a few people who thought that it would be fun to go out and play in the floods and others who were just lending a hand to those in difficulty . |
| 12 | There were quite a few dunces , and er some did n't always get moved on and they did n't all make it into the top class , they had to stop again for another year , or period , in the class they were . |
| 13 | And er , without putting too fine a point on it , er there , there were quite a few moans coming from the bedroom , from the lady , and er , my son said , er , er , I do n't think she 's very well daddy . |
| 14 | Not everyone in the Old City was an admirer of Sheikh Osman and there were quite a few Moslems as well as Copts who rejoiced in his discomfiture . |
| 15 | But there were quite a few grumblings that Rocky was n't even on the bench . |
| 16 | At the end of February news filtered in that no peasants were willing to join the military ranks , and there were quite a few desertions . |
| 17 | There were quite a few cars ranked in the drive . |
| 18 | you can , wonderful , so every time the telephone went , which was quite a few times , we stop it and then we , you know , we fancied supper in the middle and oh it was nice |
| 19 | And there was quite a few court cases . |
| 20 | There 's another story about me dad that most of used to borrow we had moneylenders in , in the streets , there was quite a few moneylenders in the . |
| 21 | There was quite a few schools used it . |
| 22 | There was quite a few men and made more or less the customers ' requirements and when I was in charge , there was sixteen and they , about in two or three parties , er you know and they 'd make different kinds of locks what was ordered and not particularly er mortice or rim er what the customer required . |
| 23 | There 's more there was more er women French polishers but there there was a quite a there was quite a few men . |
| 24 | There was quite a few dances , in er , do you mean dances in the Town Hall ? |
| 25 | I believe that I will always remember it , even though it was quite a few years ago and even though it has recurred quite a few times since . |
| 26 | And er that was quite a few years ago , about the conditions and on tea estates , and er er that was partly why we switched mostly to Kenyan tea I think after that . |
| 27 | Er there was quite a few people moved out now . |
| 28 | was quite big we went to see last night , there was quite a few people around |
| 29 | No , really , mind you , its then there was quite a few people working . |
| 30 | yeah because there was quite a few people going to it |