Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] very few " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had come across very few others not of the Kind , with that strength of vision . |
| 2 | In a year and a half of reading the literature on small schools , I have come across very few studies of any kind which purport to empirically test any aspect of these three assertions . |
| 3 | Industries dominated by very few giant firms may be ferociously competitive ; these few firms may invest at very high rates , as in Japan . |
| 4 | In the nineteenth century , most land in Britain was owned by very few landowners . |
| 5 | They reached the third round in four consecutive years , a feat equalled by very few lower division clubs at the time . |
| 6 | In the Habsburg States Maria Theresa displayed a courage and tenacity equalled by very few eighteenth-century rulers , while her son Joseph II , whatever his faults , did not lack energy and public spirit . |
| 7 | I can think of very few occasions when you would not have the time to state your case . |
| 8 | And certainly I can think of very few other structure plans that do not attempt in some way to er give some form of er recognition to the er Government policy as set out in P P G seven . |
| 9 | Such a laugh was made for very few . |
| 10 | But this was a term that I think was only applied to very few parents , on the whole , it really , it was not a sort of ‘ Parents are a nuisance ’ is not a general belief of , of teachers at all , not today . |
| 11 | I mention this because it brought me into favoured touch with the Commanding Officer for Wales , and through him I was able to gain admittance for Richard to Exeter College , Oxford , for six months prior to his joining the Royal Air Force , a privilege granted to very few cadets . |
| 12 | Making a clean break is easier too ; critical acceleration between 40–60 mph and 50–70 mph can be matched by very few cars indeed . |
| 13 | The hardships we are suffering in the recession are nothing compared to the hell of the Bosnian detention camps , and if we can not find the cash to help what amounts to very few of them then we are morally as well as economically bankrupt . |
| 14 | It is a status that we give to very few public servants , but we are giving teachers a special status because we realise that their professionalism and commitment are essential to a good teaching service . |
| 15 | Applications of artificial intelligence based systems were envisaged by very few . |
| 16 | In the 14 years since 1978 , during which I have been the only consultant physician in respiratory medicine in West Cumbria , there should , according to the above statistics , have been at least 70 deaths from asthma and yet I know of very few , having personal knowledge of only three . |
| 17 | I can conceive of very few matrons who would entrust their menfolk to such temptation . ’ |
| 18 | However , only treatment of hypertension in diabetics with nephropathy has been shown to improve prognosis , although this statement is based on very few patients . |
| 19 | And if one could even name it , its name would only ever be understood by very few persons . |
| 20 | The usefulness of this framework was limited , however , as the dates of occupation were known for very few sites ; and furthermore , the time interval between sites and finds was also unknown . |
| 21 | The reasons for these two situations arising could be because the correct word is not in the word list , but this in fact accounts for very few cases . |
| 22 | A small pilot is running with very few governing bodies . |
| 23 | His language was one spoken by very few foreigners , and indeed Latin had remained the learned tongue there as in Germany . |
| 24 | I remember years ago being amused when a young man given to very few words came to our vicarage and burst in with the news : ‘ Jane had a baby boy this morning ! ’ still with his bedroom slippers on . |
| 25 | As Belle Robertson , the sextuple Scottish Champion would say , this new star of the LPGA circuit has that brand of ‘ cheek and desire ’ given to very few . |
| 26 | The evidence to substantiate this is limited to very few conditions . |
| 27 | CFCs were developed in the 1930s and were hailed as a triumph of science — they were cheap , non-flammable , non-toxic and reacted with very few other substances . |
| 28 | But the dozens of optical and radio observatories on the ground are complemented by very few astronomy satellites . |
| 29 | He went out with scores of women but slept with very few . |
| 30 | The annual totals are published with the permission of Islay Estates Ltd. where a remarkably long run of weather statistics has been kept with very few gaps . |