Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] a [adv] few " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think all these developments will be painful but could come to a good end : the genetic bad luck of a very few may , eventually , be helped by many in that general health insurance and tough anti-discrimination laws could become reality . |
| 2 | Yet all around her , in their revolutionary impulse , men and women not of the greatness of Coleridge but certainty of a similar ambition were beginning to log and classify , to catalogue and proudly identify what , until quite recently , had been the terrain of a very few — the variety of nature as known by Mary . |
| 3 | ‘ You could put it to the test in a very few minutes , my lord . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | He based this conclusion on a very few individuals who married within their peer group in the kibbutz and were found to have entered the kibbutz during their childhood and usually after the age of six . |
| 7 | ( 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 . ) |
| 8 | He had a genius for explaining a work of art in a very few words . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The broad conclusion must be that the majority of owners of small parcels lived within a radius of a very few miles . |
| 12 | This is now the form he prefers — ‘ you can say a lot in a poem with a very few words ’ — and he writes ‘ whenever I feel in the mood ’ . |
| 13 | From 936/1530 to well beyond the limits of the present study the office was held continuously by Ottoman scholars , a survey of whose careers suggests that if the office was not a mevleviyet from 936/1530 it was so from a matter of a very few years thereafter . |
| 14 | The Council permitted the laity to communicate with the cup on a very few occasions . |
| 15 | Before the 1850s this had been a problem of a relatively few families ; in some countries , such as Germany , of hardly any . |
| 16 | Increasingly powerful transmitters , satellite relays , and cable systems have begun to open up the British electorate to a wider variety of broadcast news sources , while business mergers have effectively consolidated control of the press into a very few hands ( Newton , 1988a , p. 314 ; Negrine , 1989 , ch. 4 ) . |
| 17 | And even though Sayers and Adams are psychologists , their work is only recognizable as psychology by a very few feminist psychologists . |
| 18 | The other evening , with the help of a lot of film , he put the spotlight on a very few areas of endeavour where he thought we might be actually going right . |