Examples of 'had been quite' in a sentence

Meaning of "had been quite"

The phrase 'had been quite' suggests that something or someone had been considerably or significantly in a certain state or condition. It implies that there was a noticeable degree or extent of the described state or condition in the past

How to use "had been quite" in a sentence

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had been quite
Fischer had been quite right in his anger.
Up to that time my life had been quite boring.
There had been quite a lot of trouble.
His diplomatic efforts had been quite successful.
He had been quite right to sit down.
The whole thing had been quite a lesson.
It had been quite obscured by lots of accumulated yellow varnishes.
The first series had been quite promising.
He had been quite involved as a librarian and labour secretary.
His instructions had been quite clear.
He had been quite ill and had gone on a rigorous diet.
In the early years we had been quite close.
Madame had been quite generous with her.
The scale of the genocide had been quite unprecedented.
There had been quite a discussion after the seminar.
This stretch of coastline had been quite sparsely defended.
That had been quite a challenge and quite a grilling.
The past few days had been quite boring.
It had been quite a while since her last meal.
I remembered that it had been quite windy overnight.
It had been quite healthy recently.
Originally his planning of life had been quite different.
They had been quite far and.
Not even approaching the farmers had been quite so difficult.
Our trip had been quite sweet until now.
The visit to the mine yesterday had been quite interesting.
She had been quite ill.
I thought that the letter of his lawyer it had been quite explicit.
He knew it had been quite a while.
Had been quite a twosome.
But the resistance there had been quite clearly organised.
It had been quite exciting.
I said to him that this had been quite an experience.
It had been quite a kiss.
Actually in the past the traffic had been quite affordable anyway.
Lelouch had been quite happy with his life.
I was disappointed with the bland sausages which had been quite expensive.
This game too had been quite popular in the west.
They had been making hay and the day had been quite hot.
Was that no one had been quite stupid enough to try.
They came to understand that their career paths had been quite similar.
It turns out that there had been quite a significant decline in donations.
I had been quite ill and had that pleasant feeling of getting stronger each day.
She remembered that the child had been quite well since yesterday.
She had been quite cute and was slightly pink to the eyes.
Other media reports suggested the sea had been quite rough at the time.
The room had been quite clean before they started working on it.
My last visit to the city ten years ago had been quite uneventful e.
They had been quite forgetting their desire to get home.
Neither his reply nor his manner had been quite what she had expected.

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