Example sentences of "of quite a few " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Those men are his friends of quite a few years … ’
2 The 32-year-old striker said : ‘ It has been a good week — one of quite a few I have had in my career .
3 Having tried out just about all the object-oriented databases out there , and signed agreements with the developers of quite a few , IBM Corp 's Programming Systems Division is phasing out all other agreements and signed a strategic partnership agreement with Object Design Inc ( CI No 2,156 ) .
4 There was much disenchantment with the policies of the past ; he had won by a landslide in the Electoral College ; his party controlled the Senate ; he had run ahead of quite a few southern Democrats in the House and he was clearly an exceptional performer on television .
5 He also owned a large number of works of Elizabethan and Jacobean literature , of quite a few of which the unique surviving copy is his own .
6 Done quite a wee bit and I 've been there at a few of their , quite a few of their meetings and erm a good friend of quite a few of the councils .
7 In hard rock the edge soon became dull , and the drilling of one sufficient hole could require the use of quite a few of these drills which had to be carried by the miner to his place of work , even though that might entail climbing hundreds of feet of pit ladder .
8 you can get th I 've seen people spend sort of quite a few minutes going round in circles and give up on that when they 're nearly at the answer .
9 And you t you 'll find sort of quite a few examples of products erm
10 now we do n't learn a lot about , we do n't know much about this army officer except what we 've just read , and even though the , we , we know of quite a few people in the bible , he says in Israel there 's no one with greater faith than this army officer , so he 's quite some man is n't he ?
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