Example sentences of "[art] very few " in BNC.
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| 1 | His work must , therefore , be considered as one of the very few character/national ballets of its time , like the Russian ballets of Fokine . |
| 2 | Steve Meyers claimed one of the very few good problems left at Tremadog when he found a way through the steep ground right of Erebus , providing No Holds Barred E6 6c . |
| 3 | Yardley , a second- or third-change bowler throughout his career , was rightly proud to be one of the very few who could claim to have dismissed Bradman thrice in Test matches . |
| 4 | Giller and Twomey reason that their river seemed more severely affected than the very few others ever studied . |
| 5 | If they do attack again in strength I do n't see how we can possibly hold them , due to our large number of casualties and the very few reinforcements that seem to be joining us . |
| 6 | The very few secondary schools and the rare rural schools gave lessons in Russian only , on general Russian lines . |
| 7 | As one of them related to Yakovlev , he had tried to get straw from his brother in a nearby village when he ran out of lighting-fuel , but officials had stopped him , since he was stealing ‘ from the poor … there 's sucilizm ( sic ) for you ’ , Ivanovka Soviet on the other hand was managed by no obvious clique , and the very few rich peasants had no general influence in the village , which contained no poor households but a lot of middling ones . |
| 8 | So the very few that were still on the road I really treasured and appreciated seeing . |
| 9 | The peak can be climbed as part of Kungsleden , the King 's Route , an excellent if over-populated route and one of the very few waymarked trails in the Arctic . |
| 10 | Of the very few banners that mentioned it , one from Moscow University called pointedly for ‘ a faster rate of democratisation of the party ’ . |
| 11 | Perhaps the most famous incumbent of Stanton Lacy is poor Robert Foulkes , who was one of the very few clergymen ever to have been executed for murder . |
| 12 | The car was parked neatly between two patches of off-street parking , in one of the very few parts of the street that was neither metered nor dedicated to residents ' parking . |
| 13 | I know that sounds obvious but even nine years after I designed it , I still have one of the very few adjustable-height lecterns in the UK . |
| 14 | Perkin , I thought , was one of the very few people who 'd known about the camera and the trail . |
| 15 | Why he was dragged out in 1558 and transformed from an obscure apostate into one of the very few great martyrs of the Scottish Reformation , remains a mystery . |
| 16 | From the very few interviews we conducted we were given to understand that the birth parents would not have opposed adoption if the links could be maintained ( Lambert et al . , |
| 17 | Still , the busy street is home to one of the very few city-centre supermarkets ( a grand title for a relatively small shop , but it does capture the flavour ) . |
| 18 | This quotation is one of the very few places in his work where he actually mentions soil erosion . |
| 19 | There was a luxurious pleasure in being able to share a secret with one of the very few people he could call a friend , but this time he could resist . |
| 20 | To the rector 's unfeigned delight , the newcomer was among the very few communicants at the altar rail at the eight o'clock service on the following Sunday . |
| 21 | The very few cases in point suggest that his confidence would not be misplaced . |
| 22 | Portadown is one of the very few Irish Circuits in which an adequate provision is made for the sustentation of Ministers on the spot . ’ |
| 23 | Patsy remains one of the very few sexual renegades who have dared to wear women 's clothes in front of their teammates . |
| 24 | Richter is one of the very few artists making recordings of standard repertoire who are so awe-inspiring in their comprehensiveness that the long list of comparative versions becomes a virtual irrelevance . |
| 25 | When the old Roman city was revived and became London again , from the late ninth century on , one of its prime functions in the eyes of King Alfred and his successors was as a bulwark against the Danes ; his boroughs had a major defensive role to play , and London was the greatest of them — one of the very few cities of this age which came wholly to fill a Roman enceinte . |
| 26 | Indeed my memories of that time are happy — some of the very few . |
| 27 | The party disintegrated and with it went one of the very few sensible perspectives on the Free City 's position . |
| 28 | Of the very few things that were her own , her chastity mattered most . |
| 29 | That policy was reasonable in a buoyant market , but the directors now feel that even capitalisation should discontinue : ‘ Your company is one of the very few in the sector which does not capitalise any interest or other finance costs and has no off-balance sheet accounting of any kind . ’ |
| 30 | He was one of the very few left of the Bruce 's close company , even if no paladin . |