Example sentences of "[art] [adv] few [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Easy access to the markets of the capital for its corn , dairy produce and fatstock brought the marshland of southern Essex great wealth , of which almost two-fifths belonged to a fairly large class of rich men ; smallholders also prospered , the number of £2 assessments more than offsetting the relatively few £1 ones . |
| 2 | It has become increasingly important to carefully compare interest rates and terms offered by the various lenders on their myriad of products , particularly while base rates are high and lenders are in fierce competition to attract the relatively few people willing to brave the stagnant property market . |
| 3 | Perkin , I thought , was one of the very few people who 'd known about the camera and the trail . |
| 4 | There was a luxurious pleasure in being able to share a secret with one of the very few people he could call a friend , but this time he could resist . |
| 5 | Uniformed men and Wycliffe 's detective constables were questioning the very few people who actually lived in the street . |
| 6 | A very few species have both right and left handed varieties . |
| 7 | For example , of the 60 or more species of copepods found in arctic plankton , some 50 are of Atlantic origin ; only a very few species penetrate from the Pacific , though some of those have been reported close to the Pole ( Brodsky , 1956 ) . |
| 8 | The tank is unfiltered but contains only a very few fish at any one time . |
| 9 | Additionally , a very few people had failed to get what they wanted from one source , so had used some other source instead . |
| 10 | There are important languages only spoken in their countries of origin — Japanese , for instance , and Korean ; some Pacific languages unrelated to each other or to any other linguistic group on earth : Ainu , for example , which is not spoken outside Hokkaido Island in Japan and has no relationship at all to Japanese ; and Gilyak , which is used only by a very few people on Sakhalin Island — a place known only as being the birthplace of the actor Yul Brynner , and near where the Korean airliner KE 007 was shot down in 1983 . |
| 11 | ‘ Only a very few people . ’ |