Example sentences of "[be] that [adv] few [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Evidence about who actually acts as an unpaid carer has to be pieced together from various statistical sources , but the best informed estimates seem to be that very few people are cared for by non-relatives , and that women provide about 75 to 85 per cent of relative care . |
| 2 | What lends this observation particular piquancy however is that remarkably few players sound particularly good . |
| 3 | The point is that very few firms now invest large sums of money in a new venture unless they are very sure that there is a demand for it . |
| 4 | One of the damaging implications of the recession is that very few employers are now able or willing to offer employment to trainees . |
| 5 | The trouble was that very few members of the audience at the Theatre Royal , Brighton , understood either what he was saying or why they had spent the money on going to see him in the first place . |