Example sentences of "very few [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , most county returns contain very few at £300 , let alone £1,000 ; except in the unique circumstances of industrial Suffolk they would form but a tiny group . |
| 2 | There are many fat lesbians , but very few on ‘ the scene ’ , because those fat women who do go to lesbian clubs and bars are always in a minority and thus feel noticeable . |
| 3 | He lived for his profession , so much so that , instead of limiting himself to examining the remains of bomb-blast victims , he attended the courses and lectures available only to a very few on bomb-making and disarming offered at Fort Halstead . |
| 4 | Capitalism needs capitalists , and there were very few on the ground in West Belfast . |
| 5 | There are very few on Intercity routes . |
| 6 | There have been very few with the gift of Dante or John Milton , who have written at their best when being most Christian . |
| 7 | Most Merovingian coins of the period have inscriptions which refer only to the moneyer and the place of mintage , but there are a very few with a king 's name . |
| 8 | Poor , vulnerable government makes every problem worse , particularly in a continent where so many factors contributed to increasing poverty and very few to wealth . |
| 9 | It is one of the largest law faculties in the United Kingdom , and is one of the very few to be recognised by the Universities Funding Council as a Grade 5 ( ‘ international excellence ’ ) centre of research . |
| 10 | Our players are out not to lose , relying on others to make mistakes ; very few of our players have winning shots . |
| 11 | Very few of us naturally look like our dogs so a little augmentation might be called for . |
| 12 | During those early years of the colony 's existence we received very few of the homeless children who had grown accustomed to street wandering . |
| 13 | Very few of my contemporaries thought of starting up on their own . |
| 14 | He has very few of the traditional trappings of the successful captain of industry . |
| 15 | Very few of those who write the terrible tabloids , let alone those who read them , are likely to have heard of these ‘ internationally famous ’ sportsmen , so I doubt if they 'd make half of £1,500 even for such tales as Flanker Star Ate My Goolie During Scrum , by England 's Ugliest Prop ; or Sexy Secrets in the Showers , by Welsh Tea Lady . |
| 16 | Very few of those who write the terrible tabloids , let alone those who read them , are likely to have heard of these ‘ internationally famous ’ sportsmen , so I doubt if they 'd make half of £1,500 even for such tales as Flanker Star Ate My Goolie During Scrum , by England 's Ugliest Prop ; or Sexy Secrets in the Showers , by Welsh Tea Lady . |
| 17 | A follow-up study showed that very few of them ever had any higher ambition for using the money than buying a house or two for the family and perhaps a shop or pub . |
| 18 | The professors are of an inferior order , and very few of the students even approach mediocrity . ’ |
| 19 | They had been killed by Charlie Company , very few of whose members had refused to obey the orders of Lieutenant William Calley . |
| 20 | Bargaining had evolved in such a way that very few of the Conservative reforms had been used by employers in day-to-day negotiations , he said . |
| 21 | Very few of them , however , visit the backward , disadvantaged areas of these countries , and it is even less usual for them to be asked to share their own experience with those who are working there and comment critically on what they are doing . |
| 22 | In 1730 Miller makes a specific request for ‘ cuttings or a small part of your sort of Cistus 's , which is a tribe of plants that we have very few of ’ . |
| 23 | Miller pointed out that ‘ Oranges , jesmines , capers , olives and pomegranites … are annually brought from Italy and , if skilfully managed , very few of them miscarry , notwithstanding they are many times three or four months out of the ground . ’ |
| 24 | Very few of the proposals that we have set out in the preceding sections will be successful unless Britain is prepared to work in partnership within the Community . |
| 25 | A very few of these survived into the Triassic . |
| 26 | Having said all of this my experience with patients is that very few of them persist in taking their LM remedy until they begin to prove it and who can blame them ! |
| 27 | Given Richardson 's concern to fill out the second volume , it may be assumed that very few of Mary Leapor 's works escaped publication . |
| 28 | Very few of those who were initially hostile to Eugénie were to change their opinion in the next 18 years , and in the case of some , only death ended an enduring aversion to the Empress . |
| 29 | This was a warning which , as Fergus Pyle reported , very few of them could have heard . |
| 30 | A dozen girls from the school went to universities each year , very few of them to Oxford or Cambridge . |