Example sentences of "but very few " in BNC.
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| 1 | His family probably cares ( no one to support them ) but very few others . |
| 2 | The benefits of this type of training for the heart and lungs are enormous , but very few people who train ever reach this level . |
| 3 | Surely the detailed issue coverage in the Guardian and The Times must be superior to the necessarily brief and superficial coverage of issues on television ? perhaps that is so ; but Very few British newspaper readers read papers like the Guardian and The Times ; most read tabloids such as the Sun , the Star , the Mirror , the Express , or the Mail . |
| 4 | There were quite a few Asian kids at the school but very few blacks — particularly few when you consider how black West London is . |
| 5 | They had conceded that the project could go ahead , but very few bets were being taken in Whitehall that the century-old logjam would be shifted . |
| 6 | The Alliance Party insists that the conflict is not a zero-sum game but very few people are impressed by it . |
| 7 | A few brave or lucky people had jumped and somehow survived , but very few . |
| 8 | So , if you ask how many more shipwrecks there are out there , ready for the eager auctioneers , the answer is plenty — but very few have any undamaged treasure on board . |
| 9 | Magnolia acuminata received more precise acknowledgment : ‘ … there are but very few plants at present here , nor is it very common in the habitable parts of America . |
| 10 | Some of the crowd attempted to strike up with ‘ We shall overcome ’ but they were interrupted by a police loudspeaker announcement , which was shouted down ; this was probably an order to disperse but very few could have heard it . |
| 11 | Eighteenth-century maps of historic towns often show elaborate formal gardens behind the houses , but very few traces of these remain . |
| 12 | The Labour party had an unsurprising and intuitive dislike of the Public School , but very few ideas about what might be done . |
| 13 | The many islands off British shores , by the fact of being islands , naturally developed their own isolated types but very few survive today . |
| 14 | Squash is one of these : there is nothing wrong with the game , but very few people warm up well before playing , and so they make a sudden demand on the body which imposes stress on the heart . |
| 15 | There are , after all , many species of invertebrate , of which but very few have been studied in any detail . |
| 16 | Many Poles in East Prussia still clung to a Polish identity , but very few of them wanted to become part of a Polish state . |
| 17 | He could force the sale of the house , but very few ever did . |
| 18 | It 's easy to say that the smashing of a guitar is a loss to some potential player or other , but very few guitars are smashed compared with , say , the thousands of great instruments that are stored away in collections , in bank vaults etc . |
| 19 | There are many fat lesbians , but very few on ‘ the scene ’ , because those fat women who do go to lesbian clubs and bars are always in a minority and thus feel noticeable . |
| 20 | In contrast , there was only one police court in Kurunagala district , which had a population of over 200,000 but very few Europeans . |
| 21 | THERE is plenty of interest but very few buyers , says Vivian Bridge of Northern France Properties . |
| 22 | But very few people seem to care . |
| 23 | For a long time there has been a choice , but very few seem to have realised it . |
| 24 | Goma signed up to support Charter 77 , but very few other Romanians , and certainly fewer still of his fellow intellectuals , took the risk of publicly associating themselves with the critics of the fraternal Communist regime in Czechoslovakia . |
| 25 | ‘ We take on about 15 girls every year , but very few come through the door . |
| 26 | But very few collectors from Northern Europe or the United States made the journey . |
| 27 | But very few psychologists take a purely social approach . |
| 28 | The upper make-up levels associated in the Report with the Baths could have been brought in from other parts of the town , and contain material contemporary with the construction , with coins of Pius , but very few of the coarse wares show developments later than the forum deposits , and there are still residual pieces : for example , the reeded rim carinated bowl is still there , two early flagon types and the mortaria of G ATTIVS MARINVS which probably date to c . |
| 29 | Numerous trials have evaluated the various procedures performed during pregnancy and labour ( Iain Chalmers has even gone to the trouble of collating them ) but very few of these ideas have changed obstetric practice . |
| 30 | Some of course actually can , but very few . |