Example sentences of "very [adv] [verb] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Weight is very quickly lost in the first week or so of most diets , but slows down somewhat after that . |
| 2 | The first day of May saw a very early briefing for the 401st , at 0100 hours . |
| 3 | It 's only thirty years until the next falling star comes this way , and the earth was very nearly destroyed by the last one ! ’ |
| 4 | Hebrew is thought by some linguists to be very distantly related to the first three languages , and by other linguists not to be related , so the reason for the similarity can not be definitely given . |
| 5 | A short while after the evening at St James 's Palace , I was very kindly invited to the First Annual NCH 's George Thomas Society Lecture , held at the Cafe Royal . |
| 6 | When Churchill gave his first broadcast , suggesting that the Labour Party might have to resort to ‘ some form of Gestapo , no doubt very humanely directed in the first instance ’ , the electors were bound to regard it as a gross exaggeration ; Attlee , following the next night , could readily ask his audience to distinguish between ‘ Winston Churchill , the great leader in war of a united nation , and Mr Churchill the party leader of the Conservatives ’ . |
| 7 | The deception , trick or ruse that forms the one essential element in the interaction of the fabliau characters is most frequently an impromptu action , very commonly occurring in the first instance as an example of a native cunning attributed to women , an ingenuity in lying and deceit that women have . |