Example sentences of "[conj] [prep] a [adv] few " in BNC.
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| 1 | Except for a very few rich people , they are all financially much less well off than they were . |
| 2 | For the study of local history there is , except in a very few cases , little need to look before Saxon times . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | However , you need also to know that in a very few cases , you can get a negative result even though you are infected . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The railway pushed on to Birmingham , the army of navvies departed , the convulsion subsided , and within a very few years |
| 9 | All were firm but kind with the eagles , who were passive in return , but for a very few like Kraal who gave them as much trouble as he could . |
| 10 | 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 . " |