Example sentences of "[subord] [prep] a [adv] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Except for a very few rich people , they are all financially much less well off than they were . |
| 2 | For the study of local history there is , except in a very few cases , little need to look before Saxon times . |
| 3 | The sign made up of these two elements is arbitrary for two reasons : because , more obviously , the association of a signifier ( the sound-image ‘ tree ’ ) with a signified ( the concept tree ) is , except in a very few cases , fundamentally the product of linguistic convention , not of any natural link ; and , less obviously , because there is also no natural or necessary relationship between the sign as a whole and the reality to which it refers . |
| 4 | He was in his early fifties and could n't be retired early , except on a very much reduced company pension . |
| 5 | In Mr Coleman 's early career , and even until within a very few years , the veterinary art , so far as regards its application to cattle , sheep , swine , dogs , etc. , was in the lowest state of barbarism and degradation . |