Example sentences of "[art] [adv] few [noun pl] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nor were the comparatively few letters of Walter Machin himself much more revealing . |
| 2 | I begin here , therefore , with a discussion of the relatively few reports of attempts to replicate and extend his findings . |
| 3 | We are ( sadly ) used to antagonism from some anglers and landowners but when a leading conservation officer says ( as has been reported ) that the World Wild Fund for Nature 's contribution of around £40,000 would be well worth while if boats were kept off one mile of water , it is hard to swallow , especially when you bear in mind the relatively few miles of water which are available to use even with the protection of the Rights of Way Act ! |
| 4 | Lack of robustness of the findings may be due to the relatively few numbers of still births in the interval classes and to other data problems , though the intervention of determinants that mediate the effect of birth interval , or some other factor can not be excluded either . |
| 5 | When the old Roman city was revived and became London again , from the late ninth century on , one of its prime functions in the eyes of King Alfred and his successors was as a bulwark against the Danes ; his boroughs had a major defensive role to play , and London was the greatest of them — one of the very few cities of this age which came wholly to fill a Roman enceinte . |
| 6 | Salt was one of the very few necessaries of life that could not be produced anywhere and had to be transported from the centres of production on the sea coasts , on tidal rivers , and from certain inland centres . |
| 7 | The car was parked neatly between two patches of off-street parking , in one of the very few parts of the street that was neither metered nor dedicated to residents ' parking . |
| 8 | He was one of the very few men of science who gave a welcome , albeit qualified , to Vestiges ( 1844 ) presumably because he could see the wood for the trees ; but when the Origin of Species came out in 1859 he disliked it heartily , and became one of the most formidable opponents of Darwin and Huxley . |
| 9 | As Frances Power Cobbe observed , the doctor assumed a position of great importance in the middle class household and was indeed one of the very few men of her own class that the married middle class woman dealt with directly ; while to doctors , middle class female patients represented a lucrative source of income . |
| 10 | To her surprise , within a very few minutes of passing the broken signpost , she came upon her ‘ pony tree ’ . |
| 11 | There were a very few sources of material which were unrationed : parachute nylon could be bought sometimes and this was used for underclothes and men 's shirts . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Hence , chemical studies are confidently carried out on one or at most a very few instances of the materials that chemists are analysing and synthesizing . |
| 14 | Within a very few weeks of his father 's death , Lewis found himself obliged once more to take up the routines of an Oxford term : weekly tutorials , college meetings and lectures . |
| 15 | After only a very few years of teaching it becomes the twenty-first or the forty-ninth . |