Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [adv] few [noun pl] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From the very few interviews we conducted we were given to understand that the birth parents would not have opposed adoption if the links could be maintained ( Lambert et al . , |
| 2 | Within a very few years it succeeded in drastically altering the climate in its own homelands — much to the pain of surviving Liberals , such as Harnack , who saw in the entire regrettable enterprise the swamping of properly respectable theological and historical study by a wave of sheer barbarism , of uncouth and indeed vulgar ‘ enthusiasm ’ . |
| 3 | In a very few moments she was racing from her room and into the sitting-room . |
| 4 | It 's an allergic condition , usually pretty harmless , but in a very few cases it causes oedema of the larynx — that 's what we 've got here . " |
| 5 | It seemed like a good idea at the time , but that time , I could feel , was running out , and I could see that in a very few years it would have run . |
| 6 | It is now known , however , that it is made up of basaltic rocks , derived indirectly from peridotite , and erupted by volcanic action along the ridge itself , building up the long submarine mountain range and giving rise to the relatively few volcanoes which poke their heads above sea level . |
| 7 | He based this conclusion on a very few individuals who married within their peer group in the kibbutz and were found to have entered the kibbutz during their childhood and usually after the age of six . |
| 8 | Yet , given the opportunity and some imaginative presentation , the urban population has shown that it is capable of responding , judging by the numbers who take an interest at county shows or who turn up at the pitifully few farms which organize public open days . |
| 9 | The certainty that the average is a type is paid for by the relatively few properties which are likely to survive a generalizing procedure over many individuals . |