Example sentences of "[prep] a [adv] few [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only thing was to push me at once to the front ; and almost immediately , after a very few brief words from the distinguished chairman , I found myself face to face with an audience that evidently meant mischief . |
| 2 | Rostov was one of a very few special exceptions to the Imperial edict which excluded commoners from access to the bi-annual treatment which was necessary for administration of the drug , but he saw no reason to apprise the Adjudicator of the fact . |
| 3 | Together with a very few other insects , they have developed an immunity to the poison . |
| 4 | Only in a very few latitudinal bands is there more land than sea : thanks to Europe and Asia , that stretching from 45°N to 70°N is dominated by land , as is that ( because of Antarctica ) between 70°S and the South pole . |
| 5 | Moreover , they are concentrated in a very few geographic locations . |
| 6 | For it is one of the most noticeable features of the " actually existing democracies " ( to adapt a useful phrase of Rudolf Bahro 's ) that the democratic principle is confined to a very few public institutions and many voluntary organizations , while a vast range of centrally important institutions continue to be run by largely unaccountable and unelected oligarchies and individual autocrats . |
| 7 | Clinton 's second allegation , that there has been collusion between the security forces and Protestant para-military groups , is based on a very few isolated cases in which part-time members of the Ulster Defence Regiment ( UDR ) have been found guilty of passing on sensitive information . |
| 8 | And even though Sayers and Adams are psychologists , their work is only recognizable as psychology by a very few feminist psychologists . |