Example sentences of "[prep] [art] very [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 61 | 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 . |
| 62 | 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 ’ . |
| 63 | The railway pushed on to Birmingham , the army of navvies departed , the convulsion subsided , and within a very few years |
| 64 | 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 . |
| 65 | I fled to the Students ' Union where , within a very few days , I found myself co-opted onto the Students ' Council . |
| 66 | 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 . |
| 67 | 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 . |
| 68 | In a very few moments she was racing from her room and into the sitting-room . |
| 69 | 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 . |
| 70 | He 'd have been dead in a very few minutes . |
| 71 | 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 . ’ |
| 72 | ‘ You could put it to the test in a very few minutes , my lord . ’ |
| 73 | For the study of local history there is , except in a very few cases , little need to look before Saxon times . |
| 74 | Only in a very few cases can incompleteness be acceptable . |
| 75 | In a very few cases , serious mental disorders similar to schizophrenia or mania have been reported that may be due to a direct effect of HIV on the brain . |
| 76 | However , you need also to know that in a very few cases , you can get a negative result even though you are infected . |
| 77 | In all Boards there was certainly an increase in red tape and committee work , and perhaps a loss of initiative and an unwillingness to take responsibility among managers and engineers , and , in a very few cases , simple unchecked extravagance . |
| 78 | Only in a very few cases are points awarded explicitly to recognize the need to reside in specific rural locations , which is a sad reflection on the past role of allocation policy . |
| 79 | It 's an allergic condition , usually pretty harmless , but in a very few cases it causes oedema of the larynx — that 's what we 've got here . " |
| 80 | The sign made up of these two elements is arbitrary for two reasons : because , more obviously , the association of a signifier ( the sound-image ‘ tree ’ ) with a signified ( the concept tree ) is , except in a very few cases , fundamentally the product of linguistic convention , not of any natural link ; and , less obviously , because there is also no natural or necessary relationship between the sign as a whole and the reality to which it refers . |
| 81 | In a very few appearances on the mini tour , he accrued sufficient money to gain his card for the 1991 Volvo Tour . |
| 82 | The answer came in a very few days and was as follows : |
| 83 | He had a genius for explaining a work of art in a very few words . |
| 84 | ( Note : do n't be tempted to use filter floss as a gravel tidy substitute as it will become fully clogged and impenetrable to water in a very few months . ) |
| 85 | ‘ We are going to start to combat the transport congestion and make the investment in communications without which commercial Britain will judder to an expensive and dangerous halt in a very few years . |
| 86 | Mr Kinnock said : ‘ We are going to start to combat the transport congestion and make investment in communications without which commercial Britain will judder to an expensive halt in a very few years . |
| 87 | It seemed like a good idea at the time , but that time , I could feel , was running out , and I could see that in a very few years it would have run . |
| 88 | There is likely to be ready agreement that experts of all varieties are to give advice based on the very same reasons which should sway ordinary people who wish to form their minds independently . |
| 89 | This French comedy , bound to be controversial , depended on the very same stereotypes Serreau claims to be subverting . |
| 90 | The Council 's permission for many priests to share in a single concelebration was again , initially , limited to a very few occasions , but before the end of the 1960s the absurdity of the former practice had become rather obvious and concelebration was rapidly becoming the norm for all circumstances where the number of priests exceeded the number of community Masses needed for a pastoral purpose . |