'There were quite some people in the square'? Sometimes English leaners (or people who speak English as a foreign language) would dare to argue with native English speakers over some English usage. ( I do not appreciate it, although I understand them well [for I would do that myself quite some time ago :( ], because language is not maths, nor logics, and what finally counts is not the logic but the conventional practice that native people use the language. ) I just read a debate over the usage of 'quite some'. I noticed that 'quite some' is only used in front of uncountable nouns in the examples I've found. Then I'm wondering if 'quite some' would work with a single coutable noun, meaning 'a certain', or with plural nouns, meaning ' a considerable number of', as in: 1) The news came as quite some surprise. 2) There were quite some people in the square.