Example sentences of "[conj] [art] [adv] few " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nevertheless it is worth citing some instances where the continual use of one or a very few gestures can fully describe the feelings of some characters and convey their reactions to the circumstances of the plot or theme . |
| 2 | Many cases of resistance depend on only one or a very few genes . |
| 3 | Giller and Twomey reason that their river seemed more severely affected than the very few others ever studied . |
| 4 | This argument , which has been called ‘ the fair innings argument , ’ was summarised by Lockwood : ‘ To treat the older person , letting the younger person die , would thus be inherently inequitable in terms of life lived : the younger person would get no more years than the relatively few he has already had , whereas the older person , who has already had more than the younger person , will get several years more . ’ |
| 5 | In fact islands with multiple barrier reefs are unknown , although a very few double reefs are known . |
| 6 | In fairness , more than a very few did stand up to the committee in spite of the danger to their swimming pools and their popularity . |
| 7 | For I do not think it possible to study philosophy profitably without entering fairly deeply into the history of the subject , and for this there is not time at school , nor could it be a subject that would interest more than a very few pupils . |
| 8 | We need to remind ourselves of the variations between different types of employer , different types of job and different types of qualification ; but also of the difficulties employers may have in understanding the meaning of more than a very few qualifications . |
| 9 | It is clear that we do not in fact have the capability of sharply recalling more than a very few of our mental events as defined , even immediately afterwards . |
| 10 | Yes , computers have practically infinite branching capabilities , but this matters little when we are unable to foresee more than a very few of the more common possible learner responses . |
| 11 | In some cases this is apparently not as arduous a task as it may seem , simply because dischargers find it extremely difficult to portray themselves as ‘ similar ’ to their rivals on more than a very few criteria . |
| 12 | If they do attack again in strength I do n't see how we can possibly hold them , due to our large number of casualties and the very few reinforcements that seem to be joining us . |
| 13 | As one of them related to Yakovlev , he had tried to get straw from his brother in a nearby village when he ran out of lighting-fuel , but officials had stopped him , since he was stealing ‘ from the poor … there 's sucilizm ( sic ) for you ’ , Ivanovka Soviet on the other hand was managed by no obvious clique , and the very few rich peasants had no general influence in the village , which contained no poor households but a lot of middling ones . |
| 14 | They joined the drift of crowd towards the sitting-out places and the too few chairs . |
| 15 | Non-swimmers wore coloured bathing hats ; those who could swim at least a length wore white hats , those who had passed the bronze medal wore black caps , and a very few wore silver for the silver medal . |
| 16 | After following ‘ Flying Scotsman ’ and ‘ Princess Elizabeth ’ last summer there was a wealth of material , but no outlet for it , and a very few production companies showed any interest . |
| 17 | All have telephone , most with views over the enchanting surroundings and a very few also have terrace or balcony . |
| 18 | Well Sandy , we 've only looked at a few of the things in your shed and a very few of your photographs but it 's been fascinating . |
| 19 | It showed that most species are patchily dispersed , while many appear to be randomly distributed and a very few are uniformly distributed . |
| 20 | Of this number the great majority went unrecorded , probably even unobserved , but a very few made such an impact on human affairs that they have become significant historical events , and have been described and discussed in the minutest detail . |
| 21 | But a very few aphids transmitting a virus can cause havoc to sugar beet , for instance . |
| 22 | The rewriting of all but a very few of these definitions was deliberately excluded from the programme of the Supplement , as it would have been both impracticable and prohibitively expensive . |
| 23 | The defendants ( A ) were officials of a union to which all but a very few watermen belonged and wished to bring pressure on C in connection with a grievance at another company controlled by him . |
| 24 | Assuming a mean temperature of 14°C for the earth and lower atmosphere as a whole , all but a very few homeotherms in tropical regions lose heat constantly to the environment . |
| 25 | Yet in all but a very few , it is people that are the organisation 's most costly and most valuable asset . |
| 26 | As figure 4.3 shows , in 1984 , 41.5 per cent of fulltime women workers were to be found in clerical employment , while a very few further occupational groups account for the rest of most women in paid work . |
| 27 | The vast majority of chartered accountants do provide a very high standard of service : as a result , public expectation is high which is why when the relatively few failures do occur , they lead to so much concentrated and adverse publicity . |