Example sentences of "quite [art] lot " in BNC.
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| 1 | That 's quite a lot — quite a programme of work . |
| 2 | That is quite a lot ; but why be more ambitious and say that it makes the place of mind in Nature more intelligible to us ? |
| 3 | This auction is unusual as the deceased had quite a lot of paintings of cats — we normally have more pictures of dogs at this particular auction . |
| 4 | Proximity to the Atlantic means rainfall in Britain contains quite a lot of dissolved salts from the sea . |
| 5 | Coloured , textured as well as plain , the paper comes primarily from British sources , quite a lot is Scottish and smaller amounts are imported from Germany and America . |
| 6 | Quite a lot of top managers had been in the agency business . |
| 7 | on radio , television , sponsorship , sessions and producer work I take 20 per cent because those things are often rather fiddly , involving quite a lot of work and not producing very much of a financial return . |
| 8 | One offer he describes as ‘ managing quite a lot of money ’ and the other was a partnership in a substantial firm of solicitors . |
| 9 | Odd-Knut showed us a video of the Iditarod , intriguing for what it did n't tell you which , as it turned out , was quite a lot . |
| 10 | Of course the young girls , they sometimes started off very enthusiastic and perhaps did do quite a lot without realising the implications and effect of it but the older women often had trouble keeping up . |
| 11 | It is a system insidious but extremely powerful , where pupils may end up learning quite a lot about the way of life in ancient Rome and Greece but nothing about the way of life of their fellow pupils who are black . |
| 12 | Well , it is really strange , because I 've done quite a lot of stage work , but it 's funny because a lot of people — even other film actors — do n't know about it . |
| 13 | To tell the truth , there ai n't much to do in the garden , but we go quite a lot anyhow . |
| 14 | Not every day like we used to just after her accident , but quite a lot all the same . |
| 15 | Cork is the bark of the evergreen cork oak , which grows , wild or cultivated , in a narrow belt around the western Mediterranean and nearby Atlantic coasts , mostly in Portugal , quite a lot in Spain , and also in western Italy , Sicily , Sardinia , Corsica and North Africa . |
| 16 | ‘ He 's quite a lot of muscle to build up there yet . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ I 've got quite a lot of hair but it 's fine so , to make it look good , I need to spend a great deal of effort on it . |
| 18 | And quite a lot of it , from sources ranging from Brazil to Finland , will be finding its way to a wider British audience fairly soon — evidence of the continuing courageousness of our specialised distributors in the face of considerable odds . |
| 19 | The Foreign Secretary said : ‘ My right honourable friend knows that I have spent quite a lot of time in the last four years as Home Secretary , with his full support , trying to plug loopholes , trying to keep our immigration control strict and fair . |
| 20 | As Mr Jim Lester , the MP for Broxtowe , on the left of the party , said yesterday : ‘ I am quite sure he will get quite a lot of support . |
| 21 | But the prison system — not particularly capital punishment — but the penal system as it is , and the whole apparatus of judgement , people deciding on other people 's fates … that does irritate , and upset me quite a lot . ’ |
| 22 | Anyway , at the party , there was the aristocracy of the land and quite a lot of celebrities and of course , David and his group turned up in scruffy jeans . ’ |
| 23 | There were quite a lot of drugs around at the time and somehow or other , I did n't quite know how , I managed to scrape enough together to feed my children and keep my flat going and just keep my life ticking over . |
| 24 | He did n't want to exacerbate what he saw as an existing weakness of his own in that respect , and although he was not censorious of other people , I think he was genuinely quite frightened of it , and at one point in the Arts Lab , when there was quite a lot of speed pills , amphetamines , going around amongst the young people there , he did speak out very strongly one evening against it , saying that he personally did not want anything like that around anything he was closely involved with because he felt that it was not a good thing for people to be speeding and it created the sort of vibes that might end up causing problems . |
| 25 | In fact , I think quite a lot of them took it to heart . |
| 26 | ‘ Then you know quite a lot , if it is a good one . |
| 27 | If so , public opinion in the western democracies would probably put up with quite a lot of blood and bodies . |
| 28 | Quite a lot of white-collar workers and farmers were ready to wait on unity a bit , as Social Democrats and other leftist parties proposed . |
| 29 | Miss home quite a lot . |
| 30 | And they saw quite a lot more flags hanging out of windows . |