Example sentences of "quite [art] bit [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps the producer thought the gentleman had had enough media exposure for a while , as I was given to understand that he had been granted quite a bit of air time one way and another in the recent past . |
| 2 | Well here 's the Director General of Fair Trading , and this is someone who 's had quite a bit of experience on this , Sir Gordon Borey and he says that motorists should ensure that any cover they buy is in the form of an individual insurance policy in their name . |
| 3 | There 's , there was quite a bit of apathy where horse secuirty is concerned . |
| 4 | But elsewhere , despite quite a bit of stodge , there has been evidence of lively and ( that old critical standby ) interesting , if not necessarily very innovative , work from a wide range of quarters . |
| 5 | ‘ It was a varied , highly satisfying climb , ’ says Walsh , ‘ with quite a bit of ice up to 55 degrees ; VS standard rock , albeit with old fixed ropes , and some tiring plodding through knee-deep powder . ’ |
| 6 | There 's quite a bit of choice when it comes to sterilising units , from state-of-the-art steamers to mini travel sets . |
| 7 | If your house is detached and secluded , then you must think about spending quite a bit of money on boundary protection — high walls and fences with added obstructions on top , such as trellis or privet . |
| 8 | Hnatiuk at the bank said he 's always had quite a good balance in his savings account — for a kid — and he 's deposited quite a bit of money recently . |
| 9 | By shopping around and comparing prices it is often possible to save quite a bit of money , but even so , dry mixes always work out more expensive than mixing your own , although they do also cut out the preliminary stages of the mixing process . |
| 10 | I cam away feeling better because I 'd saved myself quite a bit of money , and I 'd done my bit towards helping the environment . |
| 11 | Now maybe the person that ran the book did n't really need to use all that , so at at the end of a a year , say for instance , they 'd quite a bit of money lying on that that black book . |
| 12 | Quite a bit of money , then it was a lot of money . |
| 13 | But it was that 's what it that 's where er you know , there was he had been quite successful in this lawsuit you know , he 'd made quite a bit of money . |
| 14 | In the 1980s I raised quite a bit of money for Sainsbury 's charities . |
| 15 | He earns quite a bit of money from that |
| 16 | and make quite a bit of money |
| 17 | they sold it for quite a bit of money and |
| 18 | So we 're going to Scarborough in this big yank 's car and the fellow said if we do n't , if want it I 'll give you a fiver , for petrol like and that it was quite a bit of money then . |
| 19 | I would guess quite a bit of money goes into the local economy . |
| 20 | There has been quite a bit of inflation since then but even then six million dollars was not a lot . |
| 21 | There has been quite a bit of litigation in the United States in which taxpayers have sought to challenge some use to which taxes have been put . |
| 22 | Now either way , obviously it 's a head injury and must be dealt with , but we 're going to do an overall thing here by saying right , now the next one on the list is concussion now concussion is shaking of the brain inside the skull now there 's noth no room for anything but the brain inside that skull , so if that 's shaken the brain hits against the sides of the bra of the er bone , and bruises so what actually happens here is the brain gets shaken and the nerve cells get damaged now you 've all seen this con and it 's so easily done concussion , you can go through a whole list of things which can cause concussion , road traffic accident , sport , construction working erm anything that erm , heading ball , football that 's another one that erm you get quite a bit of concussion and of course boxing |
| 23 | I began to use the mornings of those days when I was on evening watch for these little excursions , and covered quite a bit of territory — Leighton Buzzard , High Wycombe , Buckingham , Dunstable , Newport Pagnell , Woburn , Banbury , Northampton , Aylesbury , Bedford , and even as far as Whipsnade and the Chiltern Hills . |
| 24 | Er and I 'm quite sure there 'll be quite a bit of change to many of our procedures . |
| 25 | Dr Anne Dew , who is organising the vigil at Dryburn hospital , Durham , said : ‘ There has been quite a bit of support for the vigil from staff in all areas of work at the hospital . |
| 26 | She was a very nice girl named Eugena , I think , and there were guards at the end of the hotel corridors , I remember giving them the slip and wandering around Khabarovsk on my own in a snowstorm , only to be told the next day that there was quite a bit of excitement in the city during the night because a Siberian tiger had come into the city and was wandering the streets at the same time I was ! |
| 27 | Alongside me was Sam Ratcliffe who , at the tender age of sixteen , had already had quite a bit of publicity . |
| 28 | Yeah there 's quite a bit of flu about at the moment is n't there ? |
| 29 | Well he plays quite a bit of guitar . |
| 30 | But the sad thing is , he 's got he 's got quite a bit of brain , ai n't he , to come out , you know , little things like , although they 're rude , he 's obviously aware , but he 's wasting it all , ai n't he ? |