Example sentences of "had quite a [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | At first I did n't mind doing it , but after two months I found out he had quite a few women . |
3 | ‘ 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 . |
4 | We had quite a few visitors over the next few days and Amin , particularly , was very encouraging . |
5 | When it was Spencer 's turn he found that although he had quite a few hours in his ‘ Fury , the Spit was a harder aeroplane to fly . |
6 | We then had quite a few chances before Norwich scored on a rare break with 11 mins left . |
7 | I worked at City Motors and I stayed there for seven years I had quite a few jobs before that but I liked that one . |
8 | Uncle was always wanting to have that tail cut shorter and we had quite a few battles about it , but I won and Prince kept his long tail . |
9 | ‘ She knew a lot of people , probably had quite a few lovers , but I think she was short on real friends . |
10 | But er , they had quite a few computers there , and I said to Ray find out how much the computers are . |
11 | next week , but Ruxley had quite a few seeds out and erm , Nana was gon na buy some and then she said er , she , she 'll leave it , she 'll go down to Pole Hill first cos they said they 'll be out |
12 | She had quite a few gadgets . |