Example sentences of "[adv] very [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Cantal the livestock density per hectare of permanent grassland appears to be increasing only very slowly now and certainly more slowly than between 1955 and 1970 . |
| 2 | At the individual level , too , those who perceived bias on television news rated it only very slightly less useful than those who did not , while those who perceived bias in their papers rated their papers slightly more useful than those who did not ( Table 6.13 ) . |
| 3 | Boys gain only very slightly more ‘ A ’ levels than girls , and the gap is still closing . |
| 4 | For , as we noted , the association of particular accents ( realized by proportions of phonological variables ) with particular social or geographical communities is generally not part of an intentional message ( Labov ( 1972a ) argues that such variables are only very partially under conscious control ) , nor are such social significances associated with linguistic forms by arbitrary synchronic convention so much as by regular historical and social process . |
| 5 | Such differences ( and we have sketched them only very briefly here ) , are entirely right and proper within and between disciplines which are alive with debate and curiosity about the aspects of the world they have as this domain of inquiry . |
| 6 | Not so very long ago obstetricians used to perform a little tightening stitch called a ‘ husband 's knot ’ which would narrow the vaginal opening and accelerate the return to vaginal tautness . |
| 7 | It is hard to imagine that not so very long ago there were no words for sellotape , instant-mix , deep-freeze , TV , drip-dry , silicon chip or jet-lag . |
| 8 | Oh dear , it was all so very long ago . |
| 9 | ‘ Every poor person in England used to wash that way until not so very long ago . |
| 10 | ‘ While on the face of it seems a very simple matter to decide on , I am reminded of the complexities not so very long ago surrounding the understanding of so-called ‘ brain-death ’ . |
| 11 | There was a time , not so very long ago , when Gatting regarded the Press with about as much affection as Salieri bestowed upon Mozart . |
| 12 | Surprising when you consider that it 's ‘ not so very long ago ’ that they were eating each other ( laughter ) . |
| 13 | Although Adam pointed out that a profit was projected for the whole group , and that the group expansion had been phenomenal , Miranda felt a wistful longing for the old , less comfortable days — not so very long ago — when KITS had been her brilliant baby |
| 14 | I 'd read about , I read erm read in erm some paper or other not so very long ago , about erm a funeral and the that was going along the road of course , and they came to a to a erm hotel and they were och , they were going for miles and miles and miles and they went into this hotel and the they party the funeral party went into the hotel and had a good few drinks and they were well away when they came out and they they they went away without the coffin , for two miles , two miles before they discovered that they did n't have the coffin . |
| 15 | Not so very long ago paint programs were used as a demonstration of the capabilities of a computers system . |
| 16 | Not so very long ago computers were communicated with through large electro-mechanical typewriters called , almost universally , Teletypes . |
| 17 | Why , said Pumlumon , had n't there been a time , not so very long ago either , when he could rattle off the words that set the Draoicht Suan working with no more ado than you might make in the squashing of a flea , always supposing you wanted to do something so pointless , which Pumlumon himself never had . |
| 18 | Shaking his head , his eyes still serious , he denied , ‘ Not personally , no , but one Easter Sunday , not so very long ago , a suit of clothes was found on Carlingford Mountain . |
| 19 | Wycliffe tried to recall what his own daughter had been like at twenty , which was not so very long ago . |
| 20 | I mean we did a lot of things that other people probably did n't do , I always remember next door to us at one time the curate of the St Mary 's church , er , who is er , he is now Bishop of mm , gosh , he 's a up in Nottingham way , Bishop of something or other , we met him at a , at a do not so very long ago and he 's just the same , he 's marvellous and he was the curate and they were as poor as church mice and er in relation to them we were really well off you know , and er they had hardly any fires or anything and we gave them an electric fire to heat their place up and er when we met him , it was last February at a , a do of one of the research engineers from where I was work working the last job I had and er , he said I 've still got the electric fire |
| 21 | There was a deep , thick blood from the old oaks , still trickling slowly out here and there , as if the Trees might not have been cut down so very long since , or — and this was much worse — as if there were still vestiges of life in them . |
| 22 | It is hard to think of two other nations in Europe which are so close and yet , still , despite many noble efforts on both sides , so very far apart . |
| 23 | ‘ Perhaps , ’ said Oisin , ‘ our worlds are not so very far apart . ’ |
| 24 | Through the window , not so very far away , he could see the big black secret wood that was called The Forest of Sin . |
| 25 | On these occasions , it is hard to realise that not so very far away , industry and commerce are hard at work . |
| 26 | So very far away |
| 27 | Several boats had followed and were waiting to transport the tourists back to a civilisation that seemed so very far away from the respite of these fascinating caves . |
| 28 | Fabia awakened in her hotel room in Bamberg and thought that , had Cara been with her , since their destination was not so very far away now , they would have taken time out to have a look round . |
| 29 | Redcar 's not so very far away , now is it ? ’ he adds , his ‘ r 's ’ rolling like chucking out time in Bedlington . |
| 30 | ‘ I should expect , ’ said Johnny , with the same destructive sarcasm , ’ your time to be so very much more advanced than mine . |