Example sentences of "were quite a few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of the locals watching remembered when all the schoolchildren assembled to watch the ceremony ; there were quite a few groups of children there that day , with notebooks , pencils and teachers . |
| 2 | However you said there were quite a few families with twelve |
| 3 | There were quite a few customers even this early in the morning . |
| 4 | And there were quite a few members had started coming from up the lane and some of the people . |
| 5 | There were quite a few battles before Pearce got British Aerospace on the road to privatisation , particularly with civil servants and ‘ officials who were not really responsible , but tended to sit on the sidelines criticising and always coming up with a reason why you could n't do anything . ’ |
| 6 | There were quite a few nomes behind Nisodemus . |
| 7 | There were quite a few dunces , and er some did n't always get moved on and they did n't all make it into the top class , they had to stop again for another year , or period , in the class they were . |
| 8 | And er , without putting too fine a point on it , er there , there were quite a few moans coming from the bedroom , from the lady , and er , my son said , er , er , I do n't think she 's very well daddy . |
| 9 | Not everyone in the Old City was an admirer of Sheikh Osman and there were quite a few Moslems as well as Copts who rejoiced in his discomfiture . |
| 10 | But there were quite a few grumblings that Rocky was n't even on the bench . |
| 11 | At the end of February news filtered in that no peasants were willing to join the military ranks , and there were quite a few desertions . |
| 12 | There were quite a few cars ranked in the drive . |