Sentence examples for were quite substantial from inspiring English sources

The houses, some of which were quite substantial and worth a few thousand dollars, were smashed to rubble.

Dimbleby cites Leon's quinoa-heavy superfood salad as a dish that came from somewhere niche: "When I was growing up, my mum [food writer Josceline Dimbleby] used to make salads that were quite substantial.

Some were quite substantial, like Leroy Place, a separately numbered row of granite houses on the south side of Bleecker from Mercer to Greene; Bleecker was a prestigious residential address.

On average, students have around £342 in savings, but some blame the price of accommodation for not having more: "I definitely would've saved a lot more money if I knew how expensive student accommodation was before I attended university," says one while another chips-in: "Living in London has completely rinsed my savings which were quite substantial before uni".

Q: During Tony Blair's tenure as prime minister, there were quite substantial increases in science spending.

This behavior was unlike that observed for the upd of Cd on these single crystal substrates in the same two solvents, for which the differences in the voltammetric features, especially in the case of Ag(111), were quite substantial.

The difference this makes is quite substantial.

The fraternal birth order effect is quite substantial.

The money lost on the 33 1/3 adventure is quite substantial".

Volume was quite substantial for a Friday, with just under 1.2 billion shares changing hands.

Only the main tower survives but the castle was quite substantial in its heyday.