Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] very few [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a year and a half of reading the literature on small schools , I have come across very few studies of any kind which purport to empirically test any aspect of these three assertions . |
| 2 | He had come across very few others not of the Kind , with that strength of vision . |
| 3 | In the nineteenth century , most land in Britain was owned by very few landowners . |
| 4 | I can think of very few occasions when you would not have the time to state your case . |
| 5 | But this was a term that I think was only applied to very few parents , on the whole , it really , it was not a sort of ‘ Parents are a nuisance ’ is not a general belief of , of teachers at all , not today . |
| 6 | I mention this because it brought me into favoured touch with the Commanding Officer for Wales , and through him I was able to gain admittance for Richard to Exeter College , Oxford , for six months prior to his joining the Royal Air Force , a privilege granted to very few cadets . |
| 7 | Making a clean break is easier too ; critical acceleration between 40–60 mph and 50–70 mph can be matched by very few cars indeed . |
| 8 | I can conceive of very few matrons who would entrust their menfolk to such temptation . ’ |
| 9 | However , only treatment of hypertension in diabetics with nephropathy has been shown to improve prognosis , although this statement is based on very few patients . |
| 10 | And if one could even name it , its name would only ever be understood by very few persons . |
| 11 | The usefulness of this framework was limited , however , as the dates of occupation were known for very few sites ; and furthermore , the time interval between sites and finds was also unknown . |
| 12 | The reasons for these two situations arising could be because the correct word is not in the word list , but this in fact accounts for very few cases . |
| 13 | His language was one spoken by very few foreigners , and indeed Latin had remained the learned tongue there as in Germany . |
| 14 | I remember years ago being amused when a young man given to very few words came to our vicarage and burst in with the news : ‘ Jane had a baby boy this morning ! ’ still with his bedroom slippers on . |
| 15 | The evidence to substantiate this is limited to very few conditions . |
| 16 | But the dozens of optical and radio observatories on the ground are complemented by very few astronomy satellites . |
| 17 | The annual totals are published with the permission of Islay Estates Ltd. where a remarkably long run of weather statistics has been kept with very few gaps . |
| 18 | The interactions of X-rays with living tissues were studied in very few laboratories , perhaps because physicists working with the new rays were not usually well informed about the biological problems which might be worth approaching , and biologists lacked the background and training in physics necessary to use X-rays in their work . |
| 19 | Full and distended after very few mouthfuls |
| 20 | These restrict some of the conceivable processes whereby excitation could occur , while allowing others to occur with very few restrictions . |
| 21 | If policy were to concentrate on the ghetto poor — those socially segregated in inner cities whose manufacturing jobs have fled to the suburbs — it could be aimed at very few places . |