Example sentences of "with very few " in BNC.
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| 1 | Obviously if you are flying over a bad area , with very few good sized fields , it is necessary to divert towards the best area within range and to start looking seriously for a field at several thousand feet . |
| 2 | The Americans have left us with very few stories to tell . |
| 3 | It was a small station in a rural area with very few employees . |
| 4 | They are personal ( ’ I ask you to support A ’ , ‘ B urges you to support C for office ’ ) , with very few references to policy or interest groups . |
| 5 | Most full-time political representatives in Cuba are men , with very few women standing for election and even fewer succeeding . |
| 6 | When one thinks that in France the present generation has seen neither court gowns nor a ceremony of this sort and that , with very few exceptions , the ladies of high society do not come to the Tuileries , one is struck by the fact that everything should pass off so well and without lending itself to too much mockery . |
| 7 | There was a hanging there of two people in a garden , with very few clothes on . |
| 8 | With very few exceptions , depending on the shape of the dog 's head , all should have the so-called ‘ scissor-bite ’ . |
| 9 | The disparity between the various recommendations was by any standards extraordinary , with very few overlaps . |
| 10 | CFCs were developed in the 1930s and were hailed as a triumph of science — they were cheap , non-flammable , non-toxic and reacted with very few other substances . |
| 11 | With very few exceptions they have refrained from ostentation : indeed their Nonconformist distaste for personal extravagance , reinforced by infusions of Scottish blood , has sometimes prompted small economies which , in the light of their extraordinary benevolence to good causes , have been accepted as amusingly careful instead of absurdly mean . |
| 12 | The quietest month for some time on the Register , with very few in-sequence allocations — and o the rest no less than eleven are aircraft with changed marks . |
| 13 | With very few exceptions — and we shall come to one of the most remarkable of these in this chapter — it is a nocturnal hunter . |
| 14 | Most recent early Netherlandish shows have therefore tended to be closely focused , either with very few outside loans ( as with the National Gallery , Washington 's 1992 show around its Gerard David ‘ St Anne altarpiece ’ which temporarily reunited the gallery 's three central panels with its predella panels from Edinburgh and Toledo , Ohio ) , or organised as in-house ‘ dossier ’ shows , as with the 1991 Joos van Cleve exhibition at the Louvre , organised by Cecile Scaillierez , who is preparing an in-house Hans Memling show for 1994 . |
| 15 | Interestingly , the deputies in parliament showed no particular interest over this law and it was passed in a lukewarm atmosphere with very few votes against it and virtually no abstentions . |
| 16 | The race organisation was great with very few hiccups evident . |
| 17 | In any case , even for those with the extent and shape of garden to be able to consider size , shape of beds , borders and orientation , aspect is not of crucial major importance , because with very few exceptions , roses are hardy and do not need mollycoddling . |
| 18 | Ramblers With very few exceptions , the ramblers are distinguished from the climbers by flowering in one display of bloom and then no more , on long flexible stems that have developed the year before . |
| 19 | Conversely , some people are introverted , and seek out relationships with very few people and then only on their own terms . |
| 20 | With very few exceptions , almost all the routes are on rough , near-virgin limestone , for only a small number of the easier classics have become polished — sadly , but perhaps inevitably , including the superb slabby pillar of Marie ( HVS5b ) . |
| 21 | There is little doubt Brits are among the world 's most powerful boulderers , but put them on anything higher than an average cellar roof and they climb , with very few exceptions , like pumped , nervous and confused lemmings . |
| 22 | With very few exceptions the rule is that Parliament determines the maximum penalty and it is then for the courts , having heard the evidence , and seen the defendant in person , and heard what can be said in mitigation on his behalf , to decide upon the appropriate punishment in all the circumstances of the case . |
| 23 | Though males usually grasp the females , the act of fertilisation still , with very few exceptions , takes place outside the body . |
| 24 | The introduction of girls was quite a novelty , as with very few exceptions the ancient grammar school foundations were generally only for boys . |
| 25 | Yet , with very few exceptions , they succeed in getting back to exactly the same stretch of river where they hatched . |
| 26 | by no means all words are equally mobile in this sense , but with very few exceptions , the smallest mobile units are words . |
| 27 | Dobereiner , Newlands and Mendeleev grouped the then known elements by chemical properties , and found that their masses formed a steady sequence , with very few exceptions . |
| 28 | With very few exceptions , judges are required to be selected from amongst practising barristers and it is difficult for anyone without a private income to survive the first years of practice . |
| 29 | The annual totals are published with the permission of Islay Estates Ltd. where a remarkably long run of weather statistics has been kept with very few gaps . |
| 30 | The day was miserable and the animals were likewise , with very few people around . |