Example sentences of "quite a long [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Friends can come quite a long distance to have Sunday lunch with you , whereas for an evening dinner , there probably would not be enough time . |
| 2 | You had them for quite a long while . |
| 3 | I could no longer contain my emotion , but going down on my knees I wept as quietly as I could for quite a long while . |
| 4 | Now , after that , you was er taught all the parts of the waggons , and er this took quite a long while because we did n't know anything about them , and er where they all went and the parts they went . |
| 5 | So it 's quite a long while ago and I 've travelled round quite a bit since then . |
| 6 | Er and then he , he went to Singapore , he was there for quite a long while after the war teaching the er the English children . |
| 7 | Erm , and I have no side effects to it , I 've been on it for quite a long while . |
| 8 | being the Chief Clerk and then turned left and down quite a long corridor , which in those days was erm shorned up with four by four timber posts because er , presumably they thought if the County Hall got a direct hit the ceiling might come down |
| 9 | I think er in an effort to accommodate Mr Chairman , the members here this evening , it 's been quite a long day , the the Conservative amendment is very close to the amendment that both er myself and Mr have put in and yes we would be willing to accept that , I think we 've got the point across which the only thing missing from the Conservative amendment is the thing about the airport money . |
| 10 | is quite a long course as well . |
| 11 | For , I think we 'd probably better keep you going for , how about six da hmm for five days , that 's actually quite a long course for this stuff cos it lasts an awful long time in the body . |
| 12 | I would an for two reasons I , I 'm going to give her quite a long course . |
| 13 | I discovered that for quite a long part of their career , every Simon and Garfunkel recording used a set of distinctive and unusual percussion sounds . |
| 14 | And his point was you know , this was quite a long dream , you know , th i the manifest content , the whole argument of the dream , took some time er and his objection was , how could Freud 's theory explain this ? |
| 15 | Now you 've been doing this for 25 years , that 's quite a long stint is n't it ? |
| 16 | It was quite a long branch , and quite thick . |
| 17 | And the other one which is er Mr and that er has details of various convictions with er picture of his as a rather younger man er , various offences going back to nineteen seventy five and occupying quite a long space but there . |
| 18 | However , if you are correcting for drift with one wing well down , and then the cable breaks , you may find that you have already turned quite a long way , and that it is easier to keep that turn going if you can not get down ahead . |
| 19 | In others the stick will have to move quite a long way forwards before the wing unstalls and the spin stops . |
| 20 | Yet despite these differences , English English has gone quite a long way down the road of a more-or-less Americanized professionalism , as identified and rejected in the 1960s by Leavis , Lewis , and Gardner . |
| 21 | It was quite a long way , and coming home she let the pony trot while she ran beside me . |
| 22 | The cottage lay back quite a long way from the path , but Virginia slowed down and stepped past it with quick , light steps . |
| 23 | She was still quite a long way from Yatton Farm , but the windmill on its hillock could be clearly seen from the farm . |
| 24 | The shelter was quite a long way away , and there would n't be time to come back to the steps . |
| 25 | He had quite a long way to walk to the bridge , but there was plenty of time ; he had taken the trouble to find out the train times and he had worked out at what time the train would arrive at the bridge — about 9pm — so he enjoyed his walk . |
| 26 | I set off to look for Nigel — quite a long way down , as the staircases did n't connect and one had to walk the complete length of the first-floor gallery before descending the second . |
| 27 | Nomes can fall quite a long way without being hurt , and in any case a bacon , lettuce and tomato sandwich broke his fall . |
| 28 | ‘ It 's still quite a long way off , ’ said Masklin . |
| 29 | For quite a long way , I think . ’ |
| 30 | Yes , erm , and , and we , were prepared to subsidise as far as our finances would allow , you know people who are going , but Ex Exeter is quite a long way , so the travel is going to be something is n't it ? |