Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [prep] a [adv] few " in BNC.
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| 1 | He based this conclusion on a very few individuals who married within their peer group in the kibbutz and were found to have entered the kibbutz during their childhood and usually after the age of six . |
| 2 | ‘ 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 . |
| 3 | In a system which promises promotion , status and success to all and , in reality , confines these rewards to a very few , disappointment is inevitable . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 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 | I think all these developments will be painful but could come to a good end : the genetic bad luck of a very few may , eventually , be helped by many in that general health insurance and tough anti-discrimination laws could become reality . |