Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] very few [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The sensitivity of Bio-Rad GAP Test IgG described in our study is almost identical to that found by another groups , but the lower specificity could be explained by one or more of the following : their reliance on histology as a standard , which might be difficult to interpret in the presence of very few organisms ; the exclusion from their study of patients with chronic superficial or atrophic gastritis in whom H pylori was not identified , thus reducing the number of true negatives ; the relatively high number of cases of chemical gastritis in their H pylori negative group without specifying whether these patients had been treated with NSAID ; and the presence in their H pylori positive group of chronic atrophic gastritis in 117 of 160 ( 73% ) , which may have been paralleled by a rise in the number of false positive cases . |
| 2 | ‘ Yes , ’ said April , making it increasingly apparent that she was a girl of very few words . |
| 3 | ‘ In London , in 1934 when the knowledge of the power of the atom was a dream in very few minds , ’ Dr Tariq said , ‘ there was a Hungarian refugee . |
| 4 | The contents are secret and have been seen in their entirety by very few officers below the rank of Assistant Chief Constable . |
| 5 | It was a small station in a rural area with very few employees . |
| 6 | Although he died in 1940 at the age of 35 , he had in the space of very few years produced a quite prodigious range of political and literary texts . |
| 7 | The plane crossed the wine-dark ocean with very few passengers aboard . |
| 8 | Thirdly , it is often impossible to tell from the inventory whether a person was poor or whether he was living in comfortable retirement , having already passed on most of his estate to his children ; a yeoman with very few possessions is likely to have been in the latter category . |
| 9 | But they had sympathy for doctors in Sarajevo who 've been doing their best to preserve life with very few medicines or facilities . |
| 10 | Sometimes , they enable us to extract a lot of information from very few cues . |
| 11 | With the exception of very few families who had the protection of the British consulate , the Jews were defenceless . |
| 12 | He was getting all his own way with very few orders . |
| 13 | Interestingly , the deputies in parliament showed no particular interest over this law and it was passed in a lukewarm atmosphere with very few votes against it and virtually no abstentions . |