Example sentences of "quite [adv] [prep] [art] time " in BNC.

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1 ‘ She trimmed up the north and east hedgerow quite nicely by the time I went up , Saturday lunchtime .
2 It did quite well for a time . ’
3 The new four-cylinder engine — the one that still powers the Excel and the Esprit — was dreadfully unreliable at first , but went quite well by the time the Elite was launched .
4 Quite apart from the time demanded by the town itself , a visit to the Rhine Falls and another to Stein-am-Rhein , you should reserve a day for a trip by steamer down the Rhine , and on to the Untersee and Konstanz and back .
5 ‘ He talked quite freely at a time when very few people did .
6 So , although we may wish that the monster would stop sprouting new heads , it is entertaining to look at some of the blind alleys of the past , most of which were investigated quite seriously at the time .
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