Example sentences of "a very few " in BNC.
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| 1 | His mischievous words , however , were to prove within a very few minutes appallingly prescient . |
| 2 | Nevertheless it is worth citing some instances where the continual use of one or a very few gestures can fully describe the feelings of some characters and convey their reactions to the circumstances of the plot or theme . |
| 3 | Ali were doomed to perish except a chosen few , a very few . |
| 4 | ‘ We are going to start to combat the transport congestion and make the investment in communications without which commercial Britain will judder to an expensive and dangerous halt in a very few years . |
| 5 | Mr Kinnock said : ‘ We are going to start to combat the transport congestion and make investment in communications without which commercial Britain will judder to an expensive halt in a very few years . |
| 6 | There might also be a very few closures , it said . |
| 7 | Increasingly powerful transmitters , satellite relays , and cable systems have begun to open up the British electorate to a wider variety of broadcast news sources , while business mergers have effectively consolidated control of the press into a very few hands ( Newton , 1988a , p. 314 ; Negrine , 1989 , ch. 4 ) . |
| 8 | Only a very few civil servants within the recipient government understand what the project is really about . |
| 9 | After only a very few years of teaching it becomes the twenty-first or the forty-ninth . |
| 10 | Indeed , when Tolkien arrived , he found that the Old English being dished up to the likes of Betjeman was in a grossly truncated form , and the poetry was mainly seen as a quarry for ‘ gobbets ’ — that is , short passages of a very few lines , used for the purposes of testing the candidates ' knowledge of sound-changes . |
| 11 | Within a very few weeks of his father 's death , Lewis found himself obliged once more to take up the routines of an Oxford term : weekly tutorials , college meetings and lectures . |
| 12 | In only a very few pages , we have left the twentieth century far behind and discovered that these two descend from the Lombardic heroes mentioned in the Old English poem Widsith ( Aelfwin and Eadwin ) ; and since Aelfvin means ‘ Elf-friend ’ , we are not surprised to find ourselves drifting further back to the times when elves still walked the earth , before Numenor ( the Atlantis of the Tolkien mythology ) had sunk beneath the waves . |
| 13 | Emmenthal and Gruyère are the most famous , Emmenthal having the distinctive holes , a nutty flavour and drawing threads when heated , whereas Gruyère has a very few small holes , if any , and melts readily and evenly . |
| 14 | Only a very few raised a finger . ’ |
| 15 | In fairness , more than a very few did stand up to the committee in spite of the danger to their swimming pools and their popularity . |
| 16 | They were only married a very few years . |
| 17 | Although Christianity is the ‘ state religion ’ of Britain , it is often said that the majority of people who are nominally Christian will go to a church only on a very few occasions in their lives — for a Christmas or Easter service maybe , or a family christening . |
| 18 | Most Merovingian coins of the period have inscriptions which refer only to the moneyer and the place of mintage , but there are a very few with a king 's name . |
| 19 | He had a genius for explaining a work of art in a very few words . |
| 20 | These days , when she occasionally took over from Annunciata and brushed Mrs Browning 's hair , she marvelled that a woman so much older than herself should still have such black , black hair with only a very few silver threads in it ( which she was instructed to pull out ) . |
| 21 | A very few species have both right and left handed varieties . |
| 22 | He 'd have been dead in a very few minutes . |
| 23 | A very few places are still available for the Baltic Tall Ships Race in July . |
| 24 | Presumably , they learn chemistry , yet only a very few will be chemists when they grow up . |
| 25 | As regards malicious referrals , what seemed to be the case in a very few instances was that at least some of the allegations had substance to them and were worthy of investigation , but in discussion with the parents it seemed possible that the referrer might be using the allegation to progress some dispute with them . |
| 26 | He 's taught many a Clubrep to ski and with only a very few exceptions , he can virtually guarantee to get you up and around the bay first time . |
| 27 | A very few mammals show the reverse . |
| 28 | If I stayed on at Bletchley — which I was reluctant to leave — I should scarcely ever see Leslie before the invasion of France , which we all knew was expected within a very few months . |
| 29 | A very few protozoans secrete skeletons of ( for a single cell ) gigantic size , and these also occur in such numbers that they form conspicuous and common fossils . |
| 30 | A very few of these survived into the Triassic . |