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 .
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