From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishquite a lot/bit/fewquite a lot/bit/fewLOT/LARGE NUMBER OR AMOUNTa fairly large number or amount He’s got quite a lot of friends. Quite a few towns are now banning cars from their shopping centres. → quite
Examples from the Corpus
quite a lot/bit/few• Over 296 pages, Fallows cites quite a few.• The man looks prosperous, like quite a few men.• I lived quite a lot of my early childhood at the Thompsons' house behind a shop on Harehills Parade.• There's quite a bit of noise coming from the kitchens.• Obviously, you have to wear quite a lot of protective clothing to minimise the risk of getting injured.• A better day today, Miss Lavant wrote in her diary, quite a bit of sunshine.• There has been quite a lot of talk recently about adding enzymes to help the carp digest our sophisticated carp baits.• By no means, Watson; even now quite a few scientists continue to doubt. 