Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] for a very [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such bids are regularly submitted but only account for a very small amount of stock allotted . |
| 2 | HIV is a very weak virus and can only survive for a very short time when it is exposed to air outside the human body . |
| 3 | So if you complain about your council tax , do n't , students are exempt anyway so that 's alright , if you complain about your council tax do n't because it only pays for a very small fraction of what local authorities spend . |
| 4 | The cordon was eventually lifted at 1900 hours and the section flown home , only to prepare for a very full day 's patrolling on the following day . |
| 5 | Larger family size alone usually made for a very different situation from that of a grandchild brought up alone by a grandparent today . |
| 6 | As a result of more able children taking up integrated placements or moving into school , the Beacon was now catering for a very small number of multiply disabled children , who were highly segregated as a result . |
| 7 | Yes , it was not so much a deletion as er a reduction in the numbers because we were very mindful erm in going through the requirement erm and not making significant changes as far as the U K was concerned and we needed to make some savings in cost if at all possible and therefore we carried out a very comprehensive review of all the items of role equipment such as drop tanks er pylons , explosive release units and those type of things which had been provisionally earmarked for a very high intensive and fairly long running conflict and it was felt that if we were to make some savings then it was a sensible balance to reduce those numbers on the basis that we could save some money in the programme but at the same time many of these items could be bought later on at relatively short notice , clearly not within a conflict but in the years to come . |
| 8 | Now ethnic arts is really playing for a very small number of people . |
| 9 | The walls were lined with bookshelves , each shelf crammed with books , mostly in long sets of leather-bound volumes that looked as if they had not been read , or touched , or even dusted for a very long time . |
| 10 | Cos there they had a stark choice then of voting for erm a very low community charge and potentially voting for a very high community charge . |