Example sentences of "[coord] [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 | 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 . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | They joined the drift of crowd towards the sitting-out places and the too few chairs . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | All have telephone , most with views over the enchanting surroundings and a very few also have terrace or balcony . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | It showed that most species are patchily dispersed , while many appear to be randomly distributed and a very few are uniformly distributed . |
11 | 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 . |
12 | But a very few aphids transmitting a virus can cause havoc to sugar beet , for instance . |
13 | 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 . |
14 | 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 . |
15 | 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 . |
16 | Yet in all but a very few , it is people that are the organisation 's most costly and most valuable asset . |