Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [adv] few [noun pl] [pers pn] " 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 . |