Example sentences of "[noun] of very few " in BNC.
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| 1 | The unexpected finding of very few and exclusively group II introns in plant mitochondria may be explained by their requirement for trans-splicing . |
| 2 | The sensitivity of Bio-Rad GAP Test IgG described in our study is almost identical to that found by another groups , but the lower specificity could be explained by one or more of the following : their reliance on histology as a standard , which might be difficult to interpret in the presence of very few organisms ; the exclusion from their study of patients with chronic superficial or atrophic gastritis in whom H pylori was not identified , thus reducing the number of true negatives ; the relatively high number of cases of chemical gastritis in their H pylori negative group without specifying whether these patients had been treated with NSAID ; and the presence in their H pylori positive group of chronic atrophic gastritis in 117 of 160 ( 73% ) , which may have been paralleled by a rise in the number of false positive cases . |
| 3 | ‘ Yes , ’ said April , making it increasingly apparent that she was a girl of very few words . |
| 4 | Although he died in 1940 at the age of 35 , he had in the space of very few years produced a quite prodigious range of political and literary texts . |
| 5 | In the past , companies put ‘ great responsibility in the hands of very few managers who became ‘ all-rounders ’ covering large areas both in terms of product and geography' . |
| 6 | With the exception of very few families who had the protection of the British consulate , the Jews were defenceless . |