It was never quite so brash, so shameless, so obvious.
But periods aren't defined quite so neatly.
More recent research suggests GDP isn't quite so bad.
She hasn't been quite so unlucky as she pretends.
In the end they needn't have been quite so modest.
This time, the response may not be quite so muted.
Thankfully, you don't have to worry quite so much about scratching it, since it is neither quite so delicate nor as critical to taking good pictures.
And do Western welfare states have to be quite so buffet-like?
The Los Angeles to New Jersey footrace did not sound quite so appealing.
Well I've never seen a king of beasts with quite so little hair!
Now they attract barely a second glance. Inter-racial couples are no longer quite so gawkworthy.
Maybe women haven't failed quite so spectacularly simply because they have been largely denied the opportunity to do so.
There’s no gift quite so great — or quite so terrible — to bring back from a trip as a bottle of malbec from Argentina or a sangiovese from Tuscany or Champagne from, er, Champagne.
Most parents want to surround their children with books, but most don't take that advice quite so literally.
No one could ever look quite so merry as Peter, and the loveliest of gurgles was his laugh.
For outsiders, entering the town is not quite so difficult, but it can involve long waits and searches.
Despite Marco Polo's tales of peace and prosperity, all was not quite so quiet as it appeared.
As well as no longer being quite so broke, the Tories are now more than a mere pressure group for the disgruntled: they are quite likely to form the next government.
Sir Alexander Gray, for example, said that, "No one has ever been quite so skillful in making the case of his antagonist look extremely foolish."
One of the world's rarest birds, New Zealand's kakapo, is now not quite so rare thanks to the arrival of 34 kakapo chicks.
You mustn't think that even now Edmund was quite so bad that he actually wanted his brother and sisters to be turned into stone.
Dr Fox is adamant that the SDSR will not be revisited. After this week, Mr Cameron might not be quite so sure.
I am afraid I am not quite so much the man of the world as might be good for me in some points.
It is not so buried in trees, 'I replied,' and it is not quite so large, but you can see the country beautifully all round; and the air is healthier for you — fresher and dryer.
When children role-play about the big, bad monster under the bed, they gain a sense of control over him and he doesn't seem quite so big or so bad.
We named the pictures' All for One, One for All. '... my girls lessened my sense of unease and I hope they will always remember that scary stuff isn't quite so scary when you can laugh about it.
Agreeing on your technical solution may take quite some time, so you need to narrow the task to something that can be defined and agreed to in a short time.
THE United Nations secretary-general, Ban Ki-moon, swooped low over the massive swamp that used to be central Pakistan and said he had never before seen anything quite so terrible.
I said good-bye to Mother and the cove where I had lived since I was born, and the dear old Admiral Benbow--since he was repainted, no longer quite so dear.
But this is a study with a twist, for its purpose is to calibrate a new approach to the subject—one that will gather information by the bucketload without the need to rely on quite so many boots.
But some progress might be made quite soon.
For quite some time, everything fell into his lap.
My hands had grown quite soft with the continual soaking.
This document was pigeonholed for quite some time.
