Example sentences of "[prep] a [adv] few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Which was just as well , as this time he came back after a very few minutes . |
| 2 | We made another such excursion on to Mount Párnes , at its best season — it was still possible ( indeed it is still possible today , though more difficult ) to leave Athens and the world behind after a very few kilometres . |
| 3 | Before the 1850s this had been a problem of a relatively few families ; in some countries , such as Germany , of hardly any . |
| 4 | On three , if you see then three that we the county council will not support a development of capital , cabinet or executive management , arrangements which would tend to concentrate power in the hands of a relatively few members stifle public debate and diminish the role of the majority of members . |
| 5 | Indeed , when Tolkien arrived , he found that the Old English being dished up to the likes of Betjeman was in a grossly truncated form , and the poetry was mainly seen as a quarry for ‘ gobbets ’ — that is , short passages of a very few lines , used for the purposes of testing the candidates ' knowledge of sound-changes . |
| 6 | A very warm day here at Lord 's , breeze just starting to get up a little , in fact the sun has just disappeared behind one of a very few clouds . |
| 7 | The broad conclusion must be that the majority of owners of small parcels lived within a radius of a very few miles . |
| 8 | From 936/1530 to well beyond the limits of the present study the office was held continuously by Ottoman scholars , a survey of whose careers suggests that if the office was not a mevleviyet from 936/1530 it was so from a matter of a very few years thereafter . |
| 9 | For most students , the decision to follow an arts path or a sciences path is made at the age of 16 , when choosing A levels ; for some students , it is made earlier , at 14 , or , for a very few students , those who have kept their options open , later , after A level . |
| 10 | Some years ago professor Geach made an arrangement of this material , which the editors , professor G. H. von Wright and Miss G. E. M. Anscombe have retained with a very few alterations . |
| 11 | This is now the form he prefers — ‘ you can say a lot in a poem with a very few words ’ — and he writes ‘ whenever I feel in the mood ’ . |
| 12 | Under the progressive system of construction it was , however , impossible to do this , and with a very few exceptions a shortage of any one part held up the whole of the line . |
| 13 | The work of these men , with a very few exceptions such as Turner and Girtin , was not intrinsically important and could be divided into topographical and idealistic landscape . |
| 14 | Increasingly powerful transmitters , satellite relays , and cable systems have begun to open up the British electorate to a wider variety of broadcast news sources , while business mergers have effectively consolidated control of the press into a very few hands ( Newton , 1988a , p. 314 ; Negrine , 1989 , ch. 4 ) . |
| 15 | His mischievous words , however , were to prove within a very few minutes appallingly prescient . |
| 16 | To her surprise , within a very few minutes of passing the broken signpost , she came upon her ‘ pony tree ’ . |
| 17 | Within a very few weeks of his father 's death , Lewis found himself obliged once more to take up the routines of an Oxford term : weekly tutorials , college meetings and lectures . |
| 18 | In Mr Coleman 's early career , and even until within a very few years , the veterinary art , so far as regards its application to cattle , sheep , swine , dogs , etc. , was in the lowest state of barbarism and degradation . |
| 19 | If such a system is adopted , it may keep TV viewers happy for a few years , but it will prove a handicap to the growth of information technology and a source of discontent within a very few years . |
| 20 | Within a very few years it succeeded in drastically altering the climate in its own homelands — much to the pain of surviving Liberals , such as Harnack , who saw in the entire regrettable enterprise the swamping of properly respectable theological and historical study by a wave of sheer barbarism , of uncouth and indeed vulgar ‘ enthusiasm ’ . |
| 21 | The railway pushed on to Birmingham , the army of navvies departed , the convulsion subsided , and within a very few years |
| 22 | Mercifully , I was able to complete all I had to do within a very few days and I wondered whether the Sheikh had put a few words in the right ears . |
| 23 | I fled to the Students ' Union where , within a very few days , I found myself co-opted onto the Students ' Council . |
| 24 | If I stayed on at Bletchley — which I was reluctant to leave — I should scarcely ever see Leslie before the invasion of France , which we all knew was expected within a very few months . |
| 25 | Roberts argued that up until the last few years , apart from a very few studies made by certain women scholars , women were notable in British sociology mainly by their absence . |
| 26 | In a very few moments she was racing from her room and into the sitting-room . |
| 27 | As regards malicious referrals , what seemed to be the case in a very few instances was that at least some of the allegations had substance to them and were worthy of investigation , but in discussion with the parents it seemed possible that the referrer might be using the allegation to progress some dispute with them . |
| 28 | He 'd have been dead in a very few minutes . |
| 29 | No vote was taken and Sir John refused to say whether any clubs opposed the deal but he added : ‘ It all went through in a very few minutes . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ You could put it to the test in a very few minutes , my lord . ’ |