Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] a very " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only through a very effective regional policy could these differences perhaps be reduced to an extent that would be compatible with the existence of a monetary union . |
| 2 | But only for a very short time . ’ |
| 3 | But only for a very short time . ’ |
| 4 | They saw the animal only for a very short time . ’ |
| 5 | She was hit by a wave of familiarity ; the sudden realisation that this was the man with whom she had shared so much , if only for a very short time . |
| 6 | He raised his eyes , morosely , as Morse took Dixon 's seat opposite him and pulled another chair alongside for a very blonde young WPC , who amongst other accomplishments was the only person in St Aldate 's HQ with a Pitman shorthand qualification for 130 w.p.m . |
| 7 | Norman Davis will be remembered by many with affection not only as a very great scholar but also as a most delightful and faithful friend . |
| 8 | In practice there is much overlap and all of the above must be taken only as a very approximate guide . |
| 9 | THE villagers listened patiently as a very senior policeman tried to persuade them they could do without their village bobby . |
| 10 | I have thought so for a very long time . ’ |
| 11 | She says here in Stanton Harcourt there 's been gravel working for more than 30 yearsand that means lorries , dust , noise and a general loss of amenity … so for a very long time people face the loss of the countryside around them . |
| 12 | ‘ We 've worked together for a very long time . ’ |
| 13 | In true pilgrim tradition we prayed and did penance together and we also took our recreation together and we also took our recreation together and so on Wednesday evening we met together for a very happy celebration . |
| 14 | ‘ You have to remember that Tim , Sue and I have worked together for a very long time now . |
| 15 | Anna and the gipsy woman spoke together for a very long time . |
| 16 | And this pays in the results you get only after a very long time . |
| 17 | That this was a part only of a very much broader problem was cheerfully con-ceded from the beginning ; it happened to be the project 's brief and that was that . |
| 18 | Maybe you were tempted to take handheld shots on telephoto — perhaps with a very good reason , lions in a zoo are not very approachable and often the only way to shoot them in close-up is with a long-focus lens . |
| 19 | As M3 grew so fast in the early Eighties , its performance can hardly explain the reduction in inflation , which I believe to have been caused by very high and rising unemployment together with a very large and destructive appreciation in sterling . |
| 20 | The most significant part of Grundrisse for our subject is that part which has been published separately in English under the title Pre-Capitalist Economic Formations together with a very valuable introduction by the historian E. Hobsbawm . |
| 21 | The result is that ‘ international judicial assistance ’ now comprises well-established techniques and procedures for co-operation in civil and commercial proceedings , together with a very much more recent growth of international agreements , bilateral regional and multilateral , in which those techniques and procedures are extended and developed for use in the field of criminal investigations , prosecutions , and to trace and seize the proceeds of crimes . |
| 22 | Together with a very few other insects , they have developed an immunity to the poison . |
| 23 | Suddenly she realised that she was here quite alone with a very large , very masculine man . |
| 24 | They have been frequently invited to international festivals , but this will be the first time they have visited our own festival — we have been waiting patiently in a very long queue ! |
| 25 | He was obviously in a very bad mood . |
| 26 | Both of them were successful in squeezing money for Education out of the Treasury , although Crosland was forced to do so in a very much more bleak economic climate . |
| 27 | He does so in a very subtle manner . |
| 28 | But in social time and social space we make just such distinctions and we do so in a very consistent way . |
| 29 | So in a very short time we were in the air . |
| 30 | So in a very broad sense agriculture is going to have to con contribute to China 's , China as a whole 's economic development |