Example sentences of "that quite a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Possibly no one will ever know just how much this particular gang made in ill gotten gains over their evil enterprise , but there was little doubt at the time of the trial that quite a fortune had been amassed and that most of the principals would be rich men when they came out of prison . |
| 2 | But he added : ‘ I suspect that quite a lot of British MPs … will decide that power is now moving towards an enhanced European Parliament . ’ |
| 3 | One of the reasons for this , she explains , is that quite a lot of the small and medium-size firms in her area ( Hampshire , Dorset and Sussex ) do not want to recruit from the Big Six where most of the redundancies have been made . |
| 4 | Lawyers say that quite a lot of Jason 's £35,000 will go in George 's fees . |
| 5 | This leads us on to OBSERVATION : so that quite a lot of time should be given over to looking . |
| 6 | This also conceals the fact that quite a lot of it has appeared in print before in one form or another , a factor to bear in mind before parting with 35.50 . |
| 7 | The fact that quite a lot of effort had actually gone into actually going int having negotiations with the Local Authority to , to rehouse all the tenants . |
| 8 | And the fact that quite a lot of people had n't turned up on a certain day or that sort of thing . |
| 9 | Erm , it 's been an important year for us , and I think that , you may recall that last year we talked a bit about the Nathan report , and er , if you look at the Directors er , report , you will see that quite a lot of the work that we talked about and was in the Nathan report , is now under way , and I think it 's very important . |
| 10 | you go up along drive in and Newminster is on your left and Chantry is on your right , at , but I should imagine erm I should imagine that quite a lot of Chantry School children would be sent home because they 're for the children outside of Morpeth , you know they go there from |
| 11 | Though I suspect that what we will find if we really are honest with ourselves that quite a lot of things which we see here are not always exaggerated from the point of the exercise , that we exaggerate things out of all proportion so that we can actually start looking at it and seeing . |
| 12 | you 'll find that quite a lot of what you 're saying is then seen |
| 13 | I 'm very glad to see that there 's quite a lot of nurses here , and I presume that quite a lot of those are women nurses , and I think that this is terribly important , and I think a useful thing with this new service could do is to go out and talk for instance to the meetings of women 's organisations , to old peoples ' clubs in the afternoon , and actually ask people what they would like , and get them talking in a nice informal way , rather than waiting for somebody to let them know what they think , because I do n't think they 're going to get it . |
| 14 | It was interesting that quite a number saw their being easily located at their place of work as a benefit . |
| 15 | One would feel happier about the anthropic principle , at least in its weak version , if one could show that quite a number of different initial configurations for the universe would have evolved to produce a universe like the one we observe . |