Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] [prep] very few " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | And if one could even name it , its name would only ever be understood by very few persons . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | But the dozens of optical and radio observatories on the ground are complemented by very few astronomy satellites . |
| 5 | Applications of artificial intelligence based systems were envisaged by very few . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The evidence to substantiate this is limited to very few conditions . |
| 10 | However , only treatment of hypertension in diabetics with nephropathy has been shown to improve prognosis , although this statement is based on very few patients . |
| 11 | When radio arrived in Africa its potential was recognized by very few . |
| 12 | In the nineteenth century , most land in Britain was owned by very few landowners . |
| 13 | Such a laugh was made for very few . |