quite a bit

Idioms  

1. Also, quite a few; quite a lot. A considerable or moderate amount, as in There's still quite a bit of snow on the ground, or Quite a few parking spaces are open. [Second half of 1800s]

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Example Sentences

“Often they are people who know quite a bit about science,” he says, “as evidenced by the fact that they’re reading books that, at least on their face, purport to be scientific in nature and use the language of science to make their points, even if they are making points that are at odds with the best available scientific consensus.”

From The Wall Street Journal

“We do have quite a bit of a record from the district attorney and those records are available,” Mann says.

From Los Angeles Times

Kent Smetters, faculty director of the Penn Wharton Budget Model, which analyzes the fiscal effects of public policies, said net worth taxes in other countries have “always raised quite a bit less revenue than what was initially projected,” in large part because “wealth is easy, as it turns out, to try to reclassify or move around” and “there’s all these tricks that you can do to try to make the wealth look smaller for tax purposes.”

From Los Angeles Times

“What we’re devoting more of our dollars to is tools. So, we are ramping up tool spending quite a bit in 2026 relative to 2025 to address this supply shortfall as well,” Zinsner said Thursday.

From The Wall Street Journal

"We talked last year quite a bit about internal racing at McLaren. From that point of view, we will enter 2026 with continuity - we will keep racing the McLaren way," said Stella.

From BBC

Related Words

• a little
• fairly
• quite
• rather
• reasonably
• slightly
• somewhat