Example sentences of "[adv] there have been very " in BNC.

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1 So far there have been very few legal challenges to disciplinary action falling short of exclusion , apart from those concerning the use of corporal punishment which is now banned in the state sector .
2 The ceiling and the walls in places were badly scorched , but structurally there had been very little damage and , luckily , the fire had been brought under control before it had had time to spread to other parts of the building .
3 Since then there has been very little about electronics and computing to be found .
4 And in times when there had been very little money , it had kept them going , Jasper and her , for months .
5 Here again there has been very little systematic exploration , although such universal features of the organization of interaction are good candidates for potentially important functional pressures on linguistic structure .
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