Example sentences of "[prep] only a very few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Everything eaten turns to wind and they may feel full and distended after only a very few mouthfuls with momentary relief ( > ) from belching . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The route from gene to observed effect can be very tortuous and has been worked out in only a very few cases so far . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | This has several drawbacks , including the fact that even when all the weak stems of the words in a search co-occur , they may do so in only a very few records , and there may be other relevant records retrievable by adding one or more strong stems . |
| 6 | Births in a family which pre-date a marriage or follow it by only a very few months were increasingly common and apparently quite acceptable in the late 18th century ; here in Victorian London , however , the suspiciously early arrival of little Benjamin James ( on 11 December 1846 — rather less than nine months after the marriage ) was regarded , it seems , with a touch of disquiet . |