Example sentences of "[vb past] very few [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In over 50 hours of recorded conversational speech , Brown , Currie and Kenworthy ( 1980 ) found very few examples of passives , it-clefts or wh-clefts . |
| 2 | Some were observed with every group they taught whilst others had very few visits to lessons . |
| 3 | Until quite recently , the Japanese had very few problems with back pain ; now it is a problem that is getting rapidly more common . |
| 4 | The Arsenal pair might just be capable of staging the best road show since Hope and Crosby — but Ipswich had very few laughs at Highbury . |
| 5 | A school , you know , is like — ’ here the headmaster came to a halt , because he had launched into a metaphor without having a metaphor readily to hand ; and in fact he had very few notions of what a school was like — ‘ is like the human body . |
| 6 | By the time of the Lancaster House talks , Mrs Thatcher was in power , and I had very few dealings with her , and so I was not invited to participate . |
| 7 | It had very few jewels in its crown . |
| 8 | Yet at a time when decisive action against the Nazis might still have been effective the Swiss Carl Burckhardt made very few decisions at all . |
| 9 | Indeed it made very few references to the Mediterranean initiative unlike the heavy coverage of the Soviet scheme to neutralise the Persian Gulf . |
| 10 | After the original grants to her supporters in the coup d'état of 1762 which placed her on the throne , Catherine made very few presents of this kind during the decade 1762–72 , when her dependence on noble support is usually supposed to have been at its height . |
| 11 | His hands were not particularly robust , but he missed very few matches until June 1952 , when appendicitis ruled him out for the rest of the summer . |
| 12 | Hotelling was a leading mathematical economist and statistician and , although he published very few papers in economic theory , his contributions to spatial economics , the economics of exhaustible resources , demand theory , utility theory , the analysis of the incidence of taxation , and welfare economics each assumed the stature of classics in his own lifetime . |