How To Use Quite a In A Sentence
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The terrestrial planets in our solar system all have very specific spectroscopic fingerprints that tell us quite a bit about their atmospheres.
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Tre is going to be on suntan lotion duty quite a lot on the cruise.
The Sun
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I had written quite a lot of orchestral music in my student days.
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I think it's certainly quite a lot of the comedy that I've been involved in is quite extreme, if you like, and the extremity is part of what's funny about it.
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I have quite a bit more to say on this, but I'm gonna let you guys stew for a bit before I continue.
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With the range of firearms commonly used, from long-barreled .22 rimfire to snubby .44 magnum a friend calls his the "flare gun", you get quite a range of outcomes in terms of unburned powder distribution.
Making Light: Beating airport chemical detection systems
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Larger butter pieces (not huge, of course, but quite a bit larger than “wet sand”) result in a flakier biscuit.
2009 March | Baking Bites
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But there is bad news for dorks like me and, I suspect, quite a few people in this room: journalism has changed forever.
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It is quite absurd, not to mention infuriating, to have some moron from Sky burbling on about the next attraction when one has not had time to absorb the emotion from the film one has just seen.
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Every large town will have quite a few horologers and jewelers with a vast selection of fancy watches displayed their windows, with huge price tags to go with them.
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Isn't there quite a few "rotund" people in the Obama administration???
Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local
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Quite a bit of tablet weave, where you weave a pattern into the fabric, has been found.
Times, Sunday Times
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“When I mentioned Mr. Snow’s name belowdecks it stirred up quite a fuss,” she said.
The Berrybender Narratives
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A blonde girl, hmmm, with big boobs, that's not so easy to pinpoint, there have been a quite a few of them on the show.
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But again, perhaps problematically, they are beautiful statues – inspiring, optimistic, and utopian; totems to the radiant future that was always promised, but never quite arrived.
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Leopards are after all quite as at home in the treetops as they are and on occasion are partial to monkey.
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Tåkern is quite a large lake and in olden times it must have been larger still.
The Wonderful Adventures of Nils
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The shelter was quite a long way away, and there wouldn't be time to come back to the steps.
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My boots have taken quite a punishing recently I need a new pair.
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I'm quite a kind-hearted person actually.
Times, Sunday Times
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Over the years the area has struggled economically but what is happening there at the moment is quite astonishing.
The Sun
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We felt quite at ease as the naturist section was a good distance from the main 'textile' beach and as a result there were very few passers by.
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The Kennedy partisans are quite a tongue-tied bunch, all of them struggling gamely, if inarticulately, to somehow dismiss or disdain or circumlocute what is, apparently, the main focus of the film.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
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Think about it that way and the end of the world is quite a comforting idea.
Times, Sunday Times
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I am neither strong nor anal about the ‘group system’ which, incidentally, and frankly, I think is quite a mess.
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Dahl came to admire him, although he described him as “quite an erk,”** and was shocked to discover that he could barely draw.
Storyteller
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One State Representative said it was the largest rally he'd ever seen there and made quite an impact among his colleagues.
Is parents' rally in Boston a harbinger of wider protests?
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Wit and playfulness is one thing, sending your models out in full Highland regalia is quite another.
Times, Sunday Times
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I do get that hermitic urge. I'm quite anti-social in some ways, even with my mates.
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I'm not sure the term insufferable boor is quite adequate here, I'm not saying that he's entirely without humor, but it's the sort of humor that is always tempered by a reminder of how much money he has and how he is holding it over his adult children.
Outfoxed Diary Entry
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My father was quite a skinny, emaciated man, my brother a build a stark halfway between my father and I.
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But overall it is quite a good picture, worth a dekko or two.
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In any event, the bowling alley restaurant proved quite acceptable.
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To perform well it has to be tightly targeted to cope with quite a narrow band of frequencies.
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They are expecting the new legislation to have quite a rough passage through parliament.
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It is quite another to attribute a sense of mechanical consciousness to ancient pre-industrial civilization.
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My, that's quite a sprain you've got there.
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I very much doubt Wales would take quite as long as Ireland did in adopting a sensible fiscal policy.
The £6bn lie
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I must have more than 'intimated' -- I must have spoken plainly out the truth, if I do myself the barest justice, and told you long ago that the admiration at your works went _away_, quite another way and afar from the love of you.
The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett, Vol. 1 (of 2) 1845-1846
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Their wedding turned out to be quite an occasion.
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And he leaped into the air while he was still quite a few feet away from his opponent.
The Sun
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So Frances Hodgson Rondel must, one way and another, have got quite an earful about Professor Shandy's strange avocation.
SOMETHING IN THE WATER
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Lions in zoos are behaviourally quite a different matter, as you'd know: they're a social animal, they'll lie or eat and they'll play with each other and they work very well.
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I am quite an abrasive player who can offer certain necessary things we need to put a spanner in their works and doubts in their minds.
The Sun
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He cut quite a dash in his uniform.
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It was one of the reasons, Charlie suspected, he was quite a boring conversationalist.
TEN STEPS TO HAPPINESS
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Jan 24 2008 Whoops, Eyak isn't quite an Athabaskan language but rather a coordinate subbranch of the Athabaskan-Eyak-Tlingit family, according to the Alaska Native Language Center.
Archive 2008-01-01
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We had quite a useful meeting but regretfully at that stage the damage had been done.
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Teenage antenatal classes exist in quite a few hospitals now, but there are not nearly enough.
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Sorry I most likely do have quite a few grammar mistakes and so on.
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It was quite a good film, as horror films go.
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There wasn't any thunder or lightning, just rain, but it was quite a tempest nonetheless.
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was quite a sudden change
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After the lapse of a fortnight, Hepburn, candidate for congressman-at-large, declined to accept because "it is quite apparent that a very large portion of the Republicans, owing to the unfortunate circumstances which have come to light since the adjournment of the convention, are not disposed to accept its conclusion as an authoritative utterance of the party." [
A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3
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You're graceful, poised, tactful and exude quite a refined, princess-like presence.
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She added'I think it will give the public quite a good understanding.
Times, Sunday Times
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Vodka has very few congeners and bourbon has quite a bit.
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Yet as I pack a bag to hold water and umbrellas and tissue paper, I'm quite aware that the three hours will not feel like that.
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It has quite a kick, emphasised by a pungent aroma that brings tears to the eyes and a hanky to the nose.
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the demolition of the huge tower was quite a spectacle
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This sounds like quite an outburst, but it's funny when she says it.
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Illiteracy threatens Britain's industrial performance. But, quite apart from that, the individual who can't read or write is unlikely to get a job.
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Quite an interesting place - they were manufacturing Li-thionyl chloride batteries for defence.
A shout-out to the separator
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Races, which was written by a number of MGM contract writers including George Seaton (who later went on to write and direct Miracle on 34th Street), seems to me to soften the Brothers up quite a bit more; Groucho's less of a * schnorrer*, Chico has a real job (working at the sanitarium), as does Harpo (a jockey?!), and their goals are even nobler: they don't just want to help out young lovers, they want to save a failing sanitarium from the evil businessman.
I Had that Same Horse When I Had My Eyes Examined
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My … brother had quite a hand in brokering the accords, she said nodding across the room to a skinny bloke in a well-fitted tuxedo who was making his way onto the verandah Rose had disappeared onto.
The Boundaries of Consent (1/3)
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Since software uses the stack quite actively, particularly when calling subprograms, the introduction of the dedicated stack manager reduces the load on the CPU's execution units.
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Feeling guilty for the homeless is one thing, finding cheap secure accommodation for them is quite another .
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Josephine had to admit that the place, although dressed in a more Southwestern style, was quite agreeable.
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Quite a lot, I should think," Cat said, looking at the mass of horse-chestnut leaves pressed against the window.
CHARMED LIFE
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Quite a few young women were brought in, usually street walkers and transients, which were considered wards of the state.
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WHEN I was a youngster I used to be quite a superstitious sort of person -- I suppose because I had a nurse till I was rather large, who was the sort of Scotchwoman which believes in fairies and red devils and those things.
The Lake of Devils
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Combining them so they appear harmonious and have no noticeable push-pull effect is also quite an achievement.
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The morphine and assortment of drugs and painkillers kept her in a dream state for quite a while.
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It was quite a large foul drain, running 60 feet from the house.
Times, Sunday Times
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Livia is desperately ambitious that her son, Tiberius, become Emperor on Augustus’s death, never mind that there are quite a few other heirs before him, or that neither Augustus nor Tiberius himself is very keen on Tiberius being Emperor.
Dissecting the Devil «
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Romance is one thing, marriage is quite another.
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My dear brethren and sisters, I must still tell you that I have been four times in danger of my life when running in my kaiak, for so often have I been overset when I was quite alone.
The Moravians in Labrador
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When the sun goes down, Sikwane is quite a Joburg joller.
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I have in fact been quite active in the past month, attempting to take advantage of lower share prices and repositioning the portfolio.
Times, Sunday Times
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I gulped as they smooched - for quite a long time, too - and wished more than anything that it was me he was kissing.
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It was clear to me beforehand that there had been quite a few changes made.
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They've received quite a lot of awards for their software and they've a demo version which you can download.
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I picked listlessly at my Black Angus steak, not quite al dente fettuccine, and sighed.
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Putting years of training into learning how to apply hypnotic and meridian therapies is quite a dramatic departure for the father-of-three after running a regional building society for much of his life.
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Quite as many examples could be cited in which cutting-off and the decentralization of composition was avoided.
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J.nnifer Lopez's split from Sony Music isn't quite as amicable as she wants you to think: evidently the label abruptly dropped J. Lo because of recent flops.
Crushable
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You see, he works partly outdoors and partly indoors and has quite a bit of walking to do.
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Quite a few of them would even stub out their cigarettes so enraptured, and intimidated, would they be by the blizzard of technical virtuosity that we, today, take for granted.
Debra Levine: Ballets Russes Updated: Aspen Santa Fe Ballet Turns 15
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Iowa birding is good; there are quite a few pelicans here and some good ducks.
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I was quite aware there was adhesive glue on my nose - not a nice thought when you're trying to sleep.
The Sun
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My Uncle Gave Me A Hard Lesson I used to be quite a cockteaser.
A Very Chilly Victory
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I think the Massey Rd. connector to the bypass is a great initiative, and will help with major event traffic quite a bit.
UVa Building Arts Center at cvillenews.com
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We went to quite an establishment school, and a lot of my friends' parents were ambassadors or in government.
Times, Sunday Times
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Nancy -- my bosun; ain't he a peach?" was the answer I got, and from the mate's manner of enunciation I was quite aware that "Nancy" had been used derisively.
CHAPTER V
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The agony is not quite as exquisite as it has been in the past.
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My analogy regarding giving more tax dollars to Congress, likening it to heroin addiction, is quite apt.
Matthew Yglesias » Conservatives Don’t Care About the Deficit
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He interviewed me and reported in the government paper what I said about gay and lesbian rights quite accurately.
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Watching their family dynamic the past few years has been quite a trip.
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I'm quite a down-to-earth guy but these things really touched me.
Times, Sunday Times
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It was quite a battle persuading them to look at my wretched video at all.
Times, Sunday Times
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She's going to send us back, perhaps, to the Archeozoic Era when she was quite a lot hotter and loaded with carbon and we were just pond scum on the surface of the water.
Signs of the Times
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If that doesn't quite amount to an intention to offend, it does amount to culpable negligence in avoiding pointless offence.
Times, Sunday Times
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Thirty-one percent of children said they were hit, kicked or pushed by a sibling "quite a lot" or "a lot.
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He won't be quite as dilettantish about it and will be focused on that.
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But all indications are that he will return quite a bit more "angsty" and filled with doubt than long-time fans may remember.
Ilan Graff: Up Up and a Way Back?
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This makes the open-plan offices quite a noisy place to work.
Times, Sunday Times
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The Cure are the personification of the not-quite and the not-yet: not quite execrated but never really respected; not punk veterans but not yet generic Goff.
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His speech packed quite a punch.
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Although generally quite a touchy-feely person, I never back away from physical interaction, unless, particularly, that physical interaction should be focused on the eyeball.
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We took him away, and cleaned him - the removal of vast amounts of dirt did quite a lot, and when the Godmother asked us to come by today, I finally bestirred myself to get out the acrylics, and poodlefake.
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Many farmers will then chase you off their land quite aggressively.
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There's quite a history of it, and in fact it's been a public issue before.
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An unfancied, mid-table side with little ambition to rise any further should not be quite as easy as this to step over.
Times, Sunday Times
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I remember sitting and having quite a lively and animated discussion with friends a few years ago about this very subject.
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Heidi has become quite a little "porker" ... privy to complimentary special search and rescue operations, Pop Tarts, Mocha coffee beans, as well as a free trip back to the glorious
Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local
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This wasn't just your garden-variety assignment, and my students gleaned quite a bit about shape, form, color, sensation of texture, and sculpture principles.
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Its usefulness will often justify a path which in theory may appear quite arbitrary or badly traced.
The Education of a Gardener
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He was in Prince Albert's 11 th Hussars, and cut quite a dash on horseback in his crimson trousers, braided tunic, tassels and plumes.
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He had pointed this out to her quite a while ago, marveling over the symbolism and profoundness of such a matching.
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'As before the pike will fly' in which Coeur-de-Lion's discomfiture of the 'septemvirate of quacks' is hymned; and the finale is quite Attic.
Gryll Grange
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The main crops my bees feed themselves on are sycamore, but there is quite a profusion of different flowers in the area, along with clover and heather.
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Well, here's a funny thing, or at least something that will hearten Tollefson: The stats aren't quite as bereft as Tuck thinks they are.
The Saddest Man in the Locker Room
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I had to make my bed, help with dishes and clean the knives with pink emery powder - quite an arduous job in the days before stainless steel knives.
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Earl, a classmate of North's from the Naval Academy, was privy to quite a lot, including the diversion.
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British Airways said it anticipated ‘quite a number of disrupted and cancelled flights’ and other carriers said aircraft would be grounded.
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He did not think that a "chiel" was near, "taking notes," and will, doubtless, feel quite angry at having his character touched off in the ragged style of a slave's pen.
My Bondage and My Freedom
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Ai had sweet tee com owt mai nows bafor, akshully quite a fuw tymes…. ai had a fren taht thowt it was funni tu maek me lauf wen ai had jus taekn a sip
OMG i laugh so hard - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
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It was too superficial an examination of the subject, which ironically reminded me that there is quite a bit that I don't know about history in general.
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I'm no longer quite able to shear a sheep or crutch a ram or do as I used to, and it's foolish to think that you remain young forever.
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It is one thing to kick the establishment, quite another to take a gamble of such epic proportions.
Times, Sunday Times
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She put in quite a reasonable quantity of time yarning with Norm Purves' good lady, and I had a beer or two with old Norm and some of the other chappies there.
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I was quite a good student - no cherub, but no devil either.
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The electricians had contrived a catchment pool and a wheel in the torrent close at hand -- for the little Mulhausen dynamo with its turbinal volute used by the telegraphists was quite adaptable to water driving, and on the sixth day in the evening the apparatus was in working order and the Prince was calling -- weakly, indeed, but calling -- to his air-fleet across the empty spaces of the world.
The War in the Air
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It can be argued that a first-person singular such as Mr. Singh is too sweeping, too apt to be essayish and generalized, to be quite accountable all the time.
Crack-Up
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The stroganoff pie had quite a creamy-textured filling, so it was a bit of a handful to negotiate in public.
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It's true that the atmosphere back in the office when I got back wasn't quite as cheery as the one when I left.
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We got lost on the Metro - it was quite an adventure.
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As the final whistle blew on a 3-3 draw that featured the sending-off of pantomime villain Sinisa Mihajlovic, I turned to him and said: "Bloody hell, that was quite a game.
The Auteur proves his value in offhand dismissals of class acts | Harry Pearson
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Some of you may remember my New Year's resolutions and noticed that quite a few of them had something to do with weight loss.
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The cooler temperatures of the last week should have quelled the amorous residents' ardour and after their recent exertions they should have quite an appetite.
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By the time he was seventeen he had bought himself a second-hand car; quite an achievement in this part of the world.
SPIX'S MACAW: THE RACE TO SAVE THE WORLD'S RAREST BIRD
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Those familiar with hand-jamming will find this quite accommodating, well-furnished as it is with excellent placements.
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Your first effort may well look like a rag doll, but this is quite adequate to begin with.
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They teach you English in an intensive course lasting just a week; it's quite an intensive few days!
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It's been bootlegged quite a lot though--check out your nearest record fair.
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The Italian has been one of the best keepers in English football for quite a while now and it would be cruel if he were to spend the majority of this season on the bench.
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she's quite a girl
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He wore a kind of paletôt of light camlet cloth, with voluminous lapels and deep cuffs of lavender watered silk; very baggy trousers, with lavender stripes down the seams; very shiny boots and quite as glossy a hat; his attire being completed by tightly-fitting gloves, of the hue known in Paris as beurre frais — that is to say, light yellow.
Alexis Soyer and the Rise of the Celebrity Chef
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It was expected that a gentleman would pay a polite compliment to a lady of his acquaintance, but quite another matter to be seen to mean it.
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The popular daily press in the Edwardian years began to give quite a prominent place to sport.
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We now know quite a bit about the human mind, how it constrains our imaginations by forcing information into boxes called ontological categories, and what kinds of cognitive errors including projection it is prone to.
Valerie Tarico: God's Emotions: Why the Biblical God Is So Human (Part 1)
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No small feat and something quite alien to ourselves, difficult to imagine.
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In the above situation it is quite appropriate to look the other way whilst earwigging and they will pretend you can't hear their conversation.
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They intended to cut a major scene out of the beginning and they had also fiddled with the end quite a bit.
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There are quite a lot of people with odd hobbyhorses.
Times, Sunday Times
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There was a haze on the air, not quite a summer haze nor yet an autumn mist.
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I just checked my email and received quite a nasty one from someone who was practically wetting themself because I hadn't replied to an earlier email.
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Karen is quite a character, a woman of humor, sarcasm and extreme estrogen.
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Now I'm all for anything that celebrates blatant carnivorism, and I'd love to see PETA's apoplectic reaction, but come on: I've been inside a Burger King and while the amalgam of scent that assaults your nose may not be quite as revolting as the aforementioned love sweat of the Mongolian Cud-Spitting Yak, it certainly doesn't conjure up images of sweet lovin 'on a plush rug in front of a roaring fire.
Scent of Love
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You must remember our view that the dossier as a whole was quite a decent dossier and represented a reasonable summation.
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Illiteracy threatens Britain's industrial performance. But, quite apart from that, the individual who can't read or write is unlikely to get a job.
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It makes me think that she's just fairly introverted and is quite a thoughtful person, even pensive perhaps.
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Phew, that's quite a yarn to tell.
Times, Sunday Times
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We did do the maths and we both reckoned we were going to lose quite a lot just because of the way the membership renewal works.
Times, Sunday Times
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DW: Well, there's definitely one in Taos that we've been hearing about for quite a long time, but I just feel like this is going to take off.
Mike Ragogna: A Tiger Suit, Junip & Great Companions: Conversations with KT Tunstall, Dar Williams, and José González, plus a KT Video Exclusive
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Lunch from the on-board snack bar (I'm not sure it's quite worthy of the term buffet) was quite a decent ham, cheese and salad sandwich for me, and sausage rolls for the kids, as we watched the countryside pass by.
Diary of an Average Australian
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There are a quite a few people who would like society as a whole to be juster, to let their private commitments be translated into a langauge that says, 'We are in this together.'
'Give It Back For Jobs' Lets Affluent Return Tax Cuts
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The concordances providing word for word breakdowns of Horace's Latin provided quite a challenge.
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The result is not quite an unholy mess, but it comes close.
Times, Sunday Times
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It had quite a profound effect on me, giving me a real thirst for beauty and culture.
Times, Sunday Times
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The man was quite a bit taller than Marianne and had his arm protectively round her shoulder as they continued to talk.
THE EXECUTION
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a "kaross," or robe of leopard-skins, and upon his shoulder he carried his "roer" -- a large smooth-bore gun, about six feet in length, with an old-fashioned flint-lock, -- quite a load of itself.
Popular Adventure Tales
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Overcoming your feelings of guilt is quite another matter.
Times, Sunday Times
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We're playing quite a long show and it's important that it is structured properly.
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Unfortunately, quite a few children with attention control problems are accurately described as insatiable.
A Mind at a Time
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'How much does he earn?' 'Quite a bit!'
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We're actually quite a hopeful, not to say romantic, lot schlepping off to plays week after week in hopes of being swept off our feet.
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Each eardrop was a single turquoise, almost as large, and quite as clear in colour, as a hedge-sparrow's egg.
Vixen, Volume III.
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It felt quite awkward and when I was standing over the first tee shot I realised I hadn't even tied the laces on my sneakers, which are a half size too big as well.
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There were quite a few good modern authors, including some in English; Maigret assumed the solicitor had spoken the language fluently.
Maigret and Monsieur Charles
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First car was a '64 Austin Healy Sprite, deer head and legs sticking out the trunk was quite a site. didn't get too far back into the woods but back then I had no problem doing that on foot
Why Minivans Make Great Hunting Vehicles
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Iron deficiency is common on blueberries, rhododendrons, and pin oaks unless the soil is quite acidic.
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When Intel set up the IA - 64 project down there in Santa Clara, it sparked off quite an internal fight at the chip firm, as we reported at the time, passim.
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Reports have stated that Scott had taken quite a bit of Laci's jewelry to a jeweler for some unknown reason.
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It is quite an architectural tree and we are going for a contemporary look.
Times, Sunday Times
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At 84 he's still quite active, although he walks with the aid of a stick.
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The beavers seemed quite at home, collecting snow between their forepaws and their chin and half push, half carry it along.
Weatherwatch: Visit to a frozen London zoo in 1874
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We are all quite aware that he is a witch-burner reincarnate come to re-enact all the painful past.
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I admire all my three sons-in-law highly, " said he. "Wickham, perhaps, is my favourite; but I think I shall like your husband quite as well as Jane's.
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Marking the exam papers was quite a slog.
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It had been a rough flight with a lot of turbulence, and Dad got quite airsick.
True Spirit
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But in this case what you saw was four couples and a suite of dances, a series of dances, maybe fifteen or so, quite a number of them and with just a man on stage playing the piano.
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It's quite a strain on me when he's drinking heavily.
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Sure, there are some important achievements, but also many tens of billions have been wasted on absurd military space projects or in imposing requirements on the Shuttle (such as its huge down range) for military manned polar recon missions from Vandenberg only to 15 years later realize an astronaut crossing the Van Allen radiation belts 4 times per LEO orbit (every 90 minutes) was not quite a good idea.
Latest NASA Administrator Speculation - NASA Watch
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In 1899 the Witmark brothers published The First Minstrel Encyclopaedia and The First Minstrel Catalogue, which “covered every want of the amateur quite as well as the mastodonic Sears, Roebuck catalogue covers the needs of its vast patronage.”
A Renegade History of the United States
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Their wedding turned out to be quite an occasion.
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Naturally, I got to meet up with quite a few of my Army buddies, some of whom I have not seen in a long time.
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But that slew is a whole other stew, and quite another story as well …
An Encounter | Miette's Bedtime Story Podcast
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Exposed to the light, the monk's inner demons and the phantasms of his dreams would no longer seem quite as frightening or threatening.
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It's well known that this school costs quite a sum of money to attend so only snot-nosed, shallow kids like Terry and Theresa could afford it.
