Example sentences of "[art] [adv] few [noun pl] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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1 | Meanwhile , the relatively few persons for whom special knowledge and training are reserved are freed so far as possible from the obligations of simple labour ’ ( Braverman , 1974 , pp. 82–3 ) . |
2 | Prostatitis is one of the very few conditions for which doctors may sometimes recommend more sex . |
3 | As Frances Power Cobbe observed , the doctor assumed a position of great importance in the middle class household and was indeed one of the very few men of her own class that the married middle class woman dealt with directly ; while to doctors , middle class female patients represented a lucrative source of income . |
4 | They did not pause on her arrival , though Alix , ever polite , waved obliquely to welcome her back : watching them , it occurred to Liz that perhaps in all the years they had all known one another , this was one of the very few occasions on which they had all been in the same room . |
5 | This quotation is one of the very few places in his work where he actually mentions soil erosion . |
6 | Within a very few weeks of his father 's death , Lewis found himself obliged once more to take up the routines of an Oxford term : weekly tutorials , college meetings and lectures . |
7 | Although Christianity is the ‘ state religion ’ of Britain , it is often said that the majority of people who are nominally Christian will go to a church only on a very few occasions in their lives — for a Christmas or Easter service maybe , or a family christening . |