Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb -s] very few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Peel has very few friends in the groups he champions but Gedge is an exception . |
| 2 | Lyn and I have been over and over it to see if there was anything we could have done but that kind of abuse gives very few signs . |
| 3 | The Middleborough mosaic shows very few inconsistencies of style , so few in fact , that there might be no need to postulate the presence of more than one mosaicist ( section 3.5 ) . |
| 4 | A court dealing with an offender who is already subject to a community service order may make a further consecutive order , so long as the total number of hours remaining to be performed does not exceed 240 ( as this is a matter of principle rather than statute , the court is prepared to contemplate minor departures , as where the offender has very few hours to work off under the original order . ) |
| 5 | This is useful as the path involves very few synapses . |
| 6 | Unlike the Arabic grammatical system , the English system makes very few distinctions in terms of number , gender , and verb agreement . |
| 7 | I think Robson would probably be used as back up because Taggart face has very few options . |