Example sentences of "[prep] a [adv] few [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only thing was to push me at once to the front ; and almost immediately , after a very few brief words from the distinguished chairman , I found myself face to face with an audience that evidently meant mischief . |
| 2 | Clearly the ornithologist must expect the evolution of agriculture to continue , and its most likely result will be to produce a much more uniform habitat with consequently a much less varied bird population than at present , composed of a comparatively few widespread and adaptable species . |
| 3 | Rostov was one of a very few special exceptions to the Imperial edict which excluded commoners from access to the bi-annual treatment which was necessary for administration of the drug , but he saw no reason to apprise the Adjudicator of the fact . |
| 4 | Except for a very few rich people , they are all financially much less well off than they were . |
| 5 | Together with a very few other insects , they have developed an immunity to the poison . |
| 6 | Beyond the shelf , accumulation seems to be concentrated In a comparatively few deep water basins . |
| 7 | Only in a very few latitudinal bands is there more land than sea : thanks to Europe and Asia , that stretching from 45°N to 70°N is dominated by land , as is that ( because of Antarctica ) between 70°S and the South pole . |
| 8 | Moreover , they are concentrated in a very few geographic locations . |
| 9 | A DNA-DNA colony hybridization study ( 11 ) performed with an IS1151 probe internal to the ORF sequence ( nucleotides 314 to 1303 ) also revealed homologous sequences in some non-epsilon-toxin-producing strains : in all 7 type C strains ( beta-toxin-producing ) , in 3 out of 8 enterotoxin-producing type A strains , but only in a very few non-enterotoxigenic type A strains ( 5 of 108 ) . |
| 10 | For it is one of the most noticeable features of the " actually existing democracies " ( to adapt a useful phrase of Rudolf Bahro 's ) that the democratic principle is confined to a very few public institutions and many voluntary organizations , while a vast range of centrally important institutions continue to be run by largely unaccountable and unelected oligarchies and individual autocrats . |
| 11 | Clinton 's second allegation , that there has been collusion between the security forces and Protestant para-military groups , is based on a very few isolated cases in which part-time members of the Ulster Defence Regiment ( UDR ) have been found guilty of passing on sensitive information . |
| 12 | Now considered the finest portrait remaining in private hands in Britain , it is among a very few first rank works by the artist in any genre remaining in private hands in Britain . |
| 13 | And even though Sayers and Adams are psychologists , their work is only recognizable as psychology by a very few feminist psychologists . |