quite a few/many

[vkhu]

"We saw quite a few cars on our way here"

Can I replace quite a few with with many? Is there even such thing as quite many? I haven't heard anyone using such a phrase (at least not that I can remember)

 

[BrunaBC]

NOT A TEACHER

Yes you can. Cars is countable, so the opposite of a few cars is many cars.

Quite refers to intensity, while many refers to quantity. I believe you can say quite many, even though it may sound redundant, but I'm not quite sure about it, so let's wait for more replies from the teachers.

Regards.

 

[Barb_D]

"Quite many" is not natural. There is no grammatical reason it's wrong (that I can think of).
There were quite a few...
There were many...
There were several...