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quite a little

n. (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent; "a batch of letters"; "a deal of trouble"; "a lot of money"; "he made a mint on the stock market"; "it must have cost plenty" [syn: batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, muckle, peck, pile, plenty, pot, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad, whole lot, whole slew]

Usage examples of "quite a little".

If you want to know, quite a little thing decided me to speak to you—.

I turned my attention now to the chute through which I had descended and I found that I could ascend it quite a little distance, but presently it turned steeply upward and its smoothly polished walls were unscalable.

Sometimes Holmes would hurry on, sometimes stop dead, and once he made quite a little detour into the meadow.

It's worth quite a little fortune to any man who gets it, and I understand that there are more vacancies than there are men, so that the trustees are at their wits' end what to do with the money.

It encloses about twenty square miles of grounds, and it's quite a little metropolis in its own right.