Example sentences of "[art] [adv] few [noun pl] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The London County Council , for long a stronghold of the Labour party , was one of the relatively few authorities to press firmly in this direction in the immediate post-war years . |
| 2 | It is too soon to reach any definitive judgement , given the relatively few companies privatized and the extreme movements of oil prices which make it hard to compare that industry with others . |
| 3 | The vast majority of chartered accountants do provide a very high standard of service : as a result , public expectation is high which is why when the relatively few failures do occur , they lead to so much concentrated and adverse publicity . |
| 4 | The very few editorials included were largely confined to discussing technical matters of scholarship , and the Review did not , in general , speak out directly on wider cultural political issues . |
| 5 | Richter is one of the very few artists making recordings of standard repertoire who are so awe-inspiring in their comprehensiveness that the long list of comparative versions becomes a virtual irrelevance . |
| 6 | Though wounded seventeen times , he was one of the very few aces to survive the war . |
| 7 | The architect , Bogdan Bogdanovic , whose entire career has been devoted to the tragic commemoration of war victims , is one of the very few Serbians brave enough to speak out against the current Serbian aggression . |
| 8 | The Geological Survey was one of the very few organizations employing men of science in Britain — Greenwich Observatory was one of the others — but their status was about that of clerks in the Civil Service , and this rankled . |
| 9 | On three , if you see then three that we the county council will not support a development of capital , cabinet or executive management , arrangements which would tend to concentrate power in the hands of a relatively few members stifle public debate and diminish the role of the majority of members . |
| 10 | A very few protozoans secrete skeletons of ( for a single cell ) gigantic size , and these also occur in such numbers that they form conspicuous and common fossils . |
| 11 | Roberts argued that up until the last few years , apart from a very few studies made by certain women scholars , women were notable in British sociology mainly by their absence . |
| 12 | But a very few aphids transmitting a virus can cause havoc to sugar beet , for instance . |
| 13 | Part-time workers who work only a very few hours do not benefit from many of the forms of employment protection introduced by legislation over the last decade or so , although those part-time workers who work at least half the usual hours are covered on some items . |
| 14 | A very few mammals show the reverse . |
| 15 | The defendants ( A ) were officials of a union to which all but a very few watermen belonged and wished to bring pressure on C in connection with a grievance at another company controlled by him . |
| 16 | Choice of index technique It is clear that the changes to the indexes caused by even a very few additions mean a great deal of reading and writing of data into the index areas on disk . |