Example sentences of "and quite a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | The Sumatran tiger is more closely and deceptively striped than his larger Indian cousin , and quite a bit more intelligent . |
2 | Oh all of that , name calling and and quite a bit more . |
3 | giving off heat and quite a bit of that heat is coming off as light . |
4 | So that was quite an experience and quite a contrast from er life in good old England . |
5 | Fees take months or years to come in , and quite a proportion are never recovered . |
6 | They all used to hang out there and quite a scene had developed Some of it had to do with it being the antithesis of the whole trash/sleaze thing that was going down at the start of the seventies . |
7 | ‘ People would n't read too much into our last victory over Waterford , but scoring 20 points was a fair achievement and quite a confidence booster . |
8 | It is half the height of the parent and quite a treasure , especially for small gardens . |
9 | And Jonathan was justice of the peace and quite a leader in ar area . |
10 | It was quite a drive and quite a list for when she got there , so she was unlikely to be back before the early evening ; but this was no great problem , because they 'd soon be closing the doors so that they could make a start on the next day 's preparations . |
11 | Numerous houses became schools , many more became hospitals and quite a number were acquired as reform schools . |
12 | There were a few of the I-am-not-really-dead-but-just-popped-out-for-a-packet-of-fags sort of lines , which all went on a little long for Henry 's taste , and quite a number of death-as-a-viable-alternative-to-life stuff , much of it from the fathers of the early church . |
13 | But then there are other gardening programmes which very much perform that kind of mediating role you 're talking about , where one of the presenters goes along to a real person with an actual garden and asks the gardener how he or she sets about creating this garden and quite a number of those presenters are women . |
14 | There are over 50 coral reef fish species and quite a number of invertebrates which live by cleaning parasites and small pieces of dead tissue from other fish living on or visiting the reef . |
15 | Many various-sized painted plaster images are on sale and quite a number with large pieces broken off are being brought back in torn imitation plastic leather bags , only to have it explained that the purchasers probably have not been confessing enough and absolution is only granted by their completing a 13-page questionnaire through which they get a special adhesive that breaks all mends . |
16 | ‘ We 're still following up contacts made at that show , and quite a number have already turned into customers . ’ |
17 | Between 60 and 70 a day have been attending the job help centre on site and quite a number have found other work . |
18 | Erm because it crossed the Trent quite a number of times , and quite a number of trestle er wooden bridges were involved in that construction . |
19 | And quite a lot of it , from sources ranging from Brazil to Finland , will be finding its way to a wider British audience fairly soon — evidence of the continuing courageousness of our specialised distributors in the face of considerable odds . |
20 | Anyway , at the party , there was the aristocracy of the land and quite a lot of celebrities and of course , David and his group turned up in scruffy jeans . ’ |
21 | Two cars are drawing up outside Number 17 and quite a lot of people are going in the front door . |
22 | The later Range Rover , although slightly higher geared than the old model and quite a lot heavier , should do more than 50 mph in third . |
23 | Another Assynt man who knows these wild places , at all levels and in all weathers , is Tom Strang , mountaineer , author , angler , naturalist , ornithologist and quite a lot else besides ; a man of boundless energy with great enthusiasm for Assynt and the outdoor life . |
24 | Mr O'Malley , of the Parents ' Association , having arrived to see what they had got for their money , stood with the rest of the interested parties , Mr Sylvester and Mrs Bean and Mr and Mrs Singh and quite a lot of the Sports Committee . |
25 | The Greeks discovered electricity and quite a lot of them were AC-DC as well . |
26 | And quite a lot of men were emptied off the job for very poor reasons — they had no consideration for the men themselves . |
27 | When I arrived back I found that there had been very little press coverage and quite a lot of disbelief . |
28 | First of all there 's power , and quite a lot of middle , too , and with this one you actually want to press the amp 's distortion button … ! |
29 | There were flocks of moulting eiders and quite a lot of goosanders in the bays , as well as a number of turnstones in their smart ‘ tortoiseshell ’ breeding plumage along the shores . |
30 | Much of it was irrelevant to the needs of the individuals concerned ; many skills offered did not offer the prospect of future employment , and quite a lot of training provision was inadequate . |