Example sentences of "[prep] very few [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Full and distended after very few mouthfuls |
| 2 | 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' . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | One thousand babies later , in April 1919 , Edith Pye departed , one of very few women to have been made a chévalier of the Legion of Honour . |
| 5 | She is one of only 20 women Circuit Judges out of over 500 and one of very few Circuit Judges who has never been a barrister . |
| 6 | With the exception of very few families who had the protection of the British consulate , the Jews were defenceless . |
| 7 | I can conceive of very few matrons who would entrust their menfolk to such temptation . ’ |
| 8 | I can think of very few occasions when you would not have the time to state your case . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ Yes , ’ said April , making it increasingly apparent that she was a girl of very few words . |
| 11 | But they had sympathy for doctors in Sarajevo who 've been doing their best to preserve life with very few medicines or facilities . |
| 12 | And Austicks described discounting this year as ‘ literally a non-event , at least in Yorkshire , with very few customers even mentioning the word ’ . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Most full-time political representatives in Cuba are men , with very few women standing for election and even fewer succeeding . |
| 15 | The Americans have left us with very few stories to tell . |
| 16 | However , most of these were skeletal structures with very few members . |
| 17 | There was a hanging there of two people in a garden , with very few clothes on . |
| 18 | Thirdly , it is often impossible to tell from the inventory whether a person was poor or whether he was living in comfortable retirement , having already passed on most of his estate to his children ; a yeoman with very few possessions is likely to have been in the latter category . |
| 19 | And finally the other all London game between Crystal Palace and Queens Park Rangers ended without goals and with very few chances to either side . |
| 20 | Power has been concentrated in the Cabinet and in the hands of the Prime Minister , with very few checks and balances . |
| 21 | These restrict some of the conceivable processes whereby excitation could occur , while allowing others to occur with very few restrictions . |
| 22 | It was a small station in a rural area with very few employees . |
| 23 | When one thinks that in France the present generation has seen neither court gowns nor a ceremony of this sort and that , with very few exceptions , the ladies of high society do not come to the Tuileries , one is struck by the fact that everything should pass off so well and without lending itself to too much mockery . |
| 24 | With very few exceptions , depending on the shape of the dog 's head , all should have the so-called ‘ scissor-bite ’ . |
| 25 | With very few exceptions they have refrained from ostentation : indeed their Nonconformist distaste for personal extravagance , reinforced by infusions of Scottish blood , has sometimes prompted small economies which , in the light of their extraordinary benevolence to good causes , have been accepted as amusingly careful instead of absurdly mean . |
| 26 | With very few exceptions — and we shall come to one of the most remarkable of these in this chapter — it is a nocturnal hunter . |
| 27 | In any case , even for those with the extent and shape of garden to be able to consider size , shape of beds , borders and orientation , aspect is not of crucial major importance , because with very few exceptions , roses are hardy and do not need mollycoddling . |
| 28 | Ramblers With very few exceptions , the ramblers are distinguished from the climbers by flowering in one display of bloom and then no more , on long flexible stems that have developed the year before . |
| 29 | With very few exceptions , almost all the routes are on rough , near-virgin limestone , for only a small number of the easier classics have become polished — sadly , but perhaps inevitably , including the superb slabby pillar of Marie ( HVS5b ) . |
| 30 | There is little doubt Brits are among the world 's most powerful boulderers , but put them on anything higher than an average cellar roof and they climb , with very few exceptions , like pumped , nervous and confused lemmings . |