Example sentences of "quite a few [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | There are quite a few Americans who go on talk shows and simply give a performance . |
| 3 | I saw quite a few artists whom I wanted to represent on the trip . |
| 4 | But there are quite a few contracts which are still temporary , most of them go to the end of June . |
| 5 | On the other hand , notes can be extremely useful for radio , particularly for long phone-ins where there may be quite a few questions which require detailed instructions in the answer . |
| 6 | that I 'm w now , so what I suggest we do , is before we say we must make your premenstrual tension better with various manip various bits and bobs , and there are quite a few things we can do to help . |
| 7 | ‘ And I suppose there are quite a few things I have n't done . |
| 8 | Says 15-year-old David Stokes : ‘ There are quite a few boys who just have to have a girlfriend , but it 's not what we all feel . |
| 9 | There are quite a few hymns which take up this notion of Jesus bearing my sin as a substitute . |
| 10 | Quite a few days it had taken Madeleine , this sewing . |
| 11 | Certainly over the years the the major proportion of our fire fighting , in terms of secondary fires , what we term secondary fires , the bonfires , was always concentrated around this period and going back quite a few years we used to have special appliances put on standby , extra crews and so on . |
| 12 | been quite a few years she 's been |
| 13 | , and in the machine or something , I had you know , I never know , you have quite a few words which are n't any French or . |
| 14 | Det Sgt Gavin Barry , who led one of the groups of uniformed and plain clothes officers , said afterwards : ‘ We 've got quite a few leads we will follow up . |
| 15 | I mean , there 's quite a few husbands I know that absolutely hate being out ! |
| 16 | He was n't allowed to work that day , so people turned up in a white shirt and tie and looking smart , they had to wear uniforms even a cap but unfortunately nowadays , although a lot of the I have seen quite a few people their uniform has changed since I left , but erm they do come to work in very very casual work now . |
| 17 | There are quite a few people who would say that you should n't feed a wild badger at all . |
| 18 | There were evidently quite a few people who , like Andreeva , had failed to appreciate the seriousness of the task that faced them in April 1985 and the uselessness of applying the command-administrative methods of the past . |
| 19 | I know quite a few people who would do that . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Several crutches , though , and quite a few people who did n't apparently have anything wrong with them , helpers or nurses , he supposed . |