Example sentences of "and very few " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most people thought their newspapers were biased and very few thought ITV news was biased . |
| 2 | Surveys of opinion invariably revealed that , while attachment to Britain remained strong , patriotic emotions still flourished , and very few people ever wished to live anywhere but in Britain , estimates of national progress and decline were progressively more gloomy . |
| 3 | Installation of these devices proved costly and very few were used . |
| 4 | In 1984 Birthright had an income of £600,000 , and very few people had heard of it . |
| 5 | Poor , vulnerable government makes every problem worse , particularly in a continent where so many factors contributed to increasing poverty and very few to wealth . |
| 6 | ‘ It is occasionally indicated to us that we are apparently setting out to give the public what we think they need and not what they want — but few know what they want , and very few what they need , ’ Reith had pronounced . |
| 7 | A dress can be worn with clumpy men 's shoes ; tracksuit bottoms and loose tops are comfortable , roomy and worn by either sex ; second-hand clothes can be put together with new ones ; and very few people believe the laws that fashion writers once laid down , such as ‘ no horizontal stripes or light colours for bigger women ’ . |
| 8 | The professors are of an inferior order , and very few of the students even approach mediocrity . ’ |
| 9 | However that may be , I was soon to discover that I was not a natural disburser of ‘ my card ’ , and very few people received one . |
| 10 | Being big is not necessarily a good thing : most organisms are bacteria and very few are elephants . |
| 11 | When this happens , cells stay much longer in the progress zone than they normally would , and very few cells leave the progress zone at early stages . |
| 12 | Social-work training courses are characterised by negligible input on work with elderly people , and very few students choose this field for projects or placements . |
| 13 | The recent survey Trends in public library selection policies shows that about 20 % of public libraries do not even allocate to categories such as adult fiction , or children 's books , and very few record stock revision separately . |
| 14 | The whole style of the Jersey is dainty , aristocratic and almost deerlike and very few of the world 's cattle have this quality or have calves that are so like fawns . |
| 15 | Fjallbrant 's 1981 survey of user education in Australian academic libraries showed that 40% evaluated the orientation programmes , 60% the manual information retrieval courses and very few libraries evaluated courses in computerized information retrieval . |
| 16 | We visited Anguilla in the winter season which runs from December 15 to March 31 and were blessed with beautiful sunshine and very few tourists . |
| 17 | If the frail or housebound are to eat properly , it is essential to see that they have help with their shopping , for carrying or pushing heavy baskets soon becomes an impossibility and very few shops now deliver goods . |
| 18 | You have to take a back seat and be ‘ an unselfish performer ’ , and very few successful acts or ‘ stars ’ are unselfish . |
| 19 | One local said : ‘ It is a very remote region indeed and very few people ever get up there . ’ |
| 20 | Anecdotal evidence , however , suggests that the follow-through has been patchy , and very few retailers are assuming anything other than that the consumer has put away cheque book and credit cards and is unlikely to venture forth until confidence begins to build again . |
| 21 | UK deregulation meant that the smaller , traditional banks suddenly had to compete on a global scale , and very few had the financial power necessary . |
| 22 | Queries from consumers have in practice been rare , and very few indeed of these ( fewer than one in one-thousand enquiries ) reveal mistakes . |
| 23 | And very few people eat a healthy , balanced diet . |
| 24 | They passed the greengrocer with his window full of apples and oranges , and the butcher with bloody lumps of meat on display and naked chickens hanging up , and the small bank , and the grocery store and the electrical shop , and then they came out at the other side of the village on to the narrow country road where there were no people any more and very few motor-cars . |
| 25 | Just mating with a single female may be difficult enough and very few will have the opportunity to mate more than once a year . |
| 26 | I play in all types of weather and very few people play tennis anyway so you ca n't always get a game . |
| 27 | And it is vast : within an area of 2000 square miles , there are no settled communities and very few habitations . |
| 28 | A former IBM Corp employee has been arraigned on seven counts of grand larceny for allegedly stealing more than $49m worth of mainframe memory boards from the company — but you 're meant to laugh at the $49m figure , because that is the highest price at which they were included in the price list , and very few customers are likely ever to have paid it ; the indictment by an Ulster County grand jury charged Carl McDonald , 41 , of Poughkeepsie conspired to steal 3,381 mainframe memory boards from IBM 's complex in Kingston , and allegedly sold the boards for $7m , a more realistic valuation , to computer firms in Texas , Minnesota , California , Canada and here in the UK ; no names . |
| 29 | It is true to say , however , that since the business has become mature , the period of readjustment has been extremely painful and very few fibre companies have made much money over the last decade . |
| 30 | Lack of training , however , has limited the scope and quality of programming , and very few people have been able to participate . |