Example sentences of "[vb pp] very few " in BNC.
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| 1 | Specifically , what the machines do is take advantage of a certain category of mistake of which most good chess players believe , apparently erroneously , that they have made very few . |
| 2 | She has since toured extensively in the USA and parts of Europe , but has made very few appearances in these islands . |
| 3 | He said that in the last two years he had met very few institutions which had not cut back their system budgets following the 1987 crash in share prices in the stock market . |
| 4 | I have met very few who are unambiguous about their own decency . ’ |
| 5 | He had met very few Americans in his life and his image of New York was a product of films and gialli , the thrillers he loved to read . |
| 6 | The past year has seen very few problems concerning the administration of drug testing programmes . |
| 7 | One Manchester United fan insisted he 'd seen very few disturbances . |
| 8 | In the sporting world she has produced very few truly outstanding champions . |
| 9 | Apart from the brief cold spell in late November , we have had very few hard frosts . |
| 10 | If the patient takes more medicine than they need then there will be over-reaction but I have had very few cases of over-reaction and always the state produced has calmed within a day . |
| 11 | Though he has attracted some favourable notices in the last few years , his works have had very few prestigious performances , and there has been absolutely no powerful publicity machine or critical coterie building up behind him . |
| 12 | Since 1962 they have had very few opportunities to express their opinions in the national press , and even less on radio and television . |
| 13 | Some of those who thought the statement was true may have had very few experiences of extended dreams , and for them " dreaming " may literally consist of some recollections of thoughts or images which occurred immediately before waking up . |
| 14 | Bridget Ewing has had very few enquiries about Residential Homes ' Membership and she would be pleased to hear from more teachers involved in these type of classes . |
| 15 | Mr Kirk says he 's had very few complaints about the letter . |
| 16 | ‘ Indeed the magistrates ’ clerk has been particularly helpful and we have had very few hitches . ’ |
| 17 | Now in those cases we ca n't use the normal Chow tests we 've got more parameters to estimate than we have observations , right , as a result Chow developed a second test , right , from structural change where we do n't need er erm to estimate essentially the regression in the sub sample which has got very few obser observations but in that Chow , that Chow second test is often called a test of predicted failure , right , Microfit will calculate both of those tests and bear in mind I mean that we 're spending a lot of time on er parameter constancy , we must bear in mind that parameter constancy is vitally important if we are going to make these inferences possible be about policy making on the basis of our estimates . |
| 18 | By contrast , the Diocese of Truro has closed very few . |
| 19 | Therefore , DEC has sold very few machines in anticipation of the new range , but sales and marketing activities will be greatly stepped up when it arrives . |
| 20 | She stood up to your mother , and I 've known very few people who have had the pluck to do it . " |
| 21 | When she had first known him , the glossy curls had been ruthlessly cut into a very short , severe style that would have suited very few men , but looked exactly right with his strong features . |
| 22 | So far the Department of the Environment has identified very few ‘ essential uses ’ for which there is no alternative to carbon tetrachloride . |
| 23 | People have taken very few sensible precautions to stop young male burglars breaking in . |
| 24 | Since Torbay and North Devon had developed very few local services and did not have the capacity to take back their patients from Exminster , some ‘ enablement ’ programme for such local services would have to be devised . |
| 25 | I 've received very few replies so the signs can be erected and B either a deputy co-ordinator or the deputies that should come in , now some some oblige a lot of them do n't |
| 26 | Some local authorities have designated very few conservation areas . |