Example sentences of "[adv] [art] [adv] few [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ it is not the great mass of publications ( each constituting but a minor increment to the sum of human knowledge ) which contribute most to scientific progress , but a small number of key papers , each of which has a very great impact on the advance of knowledge … only a very few elite scientists produce work that becomes the base for future discoveries . ’ |
| 2 | These days , when she occasionally took over from Annunciata and brushed Mrs Browning 's hair , she marvelled that a woman so much older than herself should still have such black , black hair with only a very few silver threads in it ( which she was instructed to pull out ) . |
| 3 | Only a very few civil servants within the recipient government understand what the project is really about . |
| 4 | Here only a very few unusual men are retained in the public eye for prolonged periods . |
| 5 | Continental and maritime Antarctica have no large year-round rivers , and only a very few smaller ones , mostly glacier-fed torrents , to match the smaller tundra rivers of the north . |
| 6 | Its distinguishing feature is that it uses only a very few basic operators — typically just one , called modus ponens , or some equivalent — which are very well understood and reliable . |
| 7 | It perhaps is a function of the early stage of interpreter development in the UK ( though there are only a very few positive indications that the situation is different in other more developed countries ) and one can expect a change of provision , attitude and therefore skill . |