Example sentences of "[was/were] very few [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were very few houses in the road at that time ; it was just a lane , leading to nowhere , and Mrs Browning was the first to acknowledge our presence by formally inviting us to tea . |
| 2 | There were very few problems at any of the cross-country obstacles , although a rebuilding job was needed on both the Suffolk Saddles triple bars and the Dengie Crops fan rails towards the end of the day . |
| 3 | Even during the later years of the reign , when Europe was embroiled in the early stages of the Thirty Years ' War and James 's MPs were calling for active English intervention on behalf of Protestants abroad , there were very few complaints in parliament about the state of religion at home . |
| 4 | In anyone 's book that is failure of some magnitude , but the fact for English cricket was simply that there were very few players of real Test class around at the time ; after all , when Mike Gatting , one of the best of the county captains , got his chance he won only twice in twenty-two Tests . |
| 5 | On Feb. 5 the judge produced a 54-page ruling which noted that there were very few instances in US history of a President testifying in judicial or congressional proceedings , but nevertheless concluded that Poindexter had met the extensive requirements for demonstrating that Reagan 's testimony was " material " to his defence . |
| 6 | There were very few Dreams about Dreams and Dreaming . |
| 7 | There were very few searches of the " accounts dictionary " type in which stemming makes the difference between success and total failure . |
| 8 | At that time there were very few courses of any kind which recognised the value of an ability to communicate with members of different linguistic communities resident in Britain in their preferred language : the only academic institutions offering any kind of training for the teaching of community languages such as Bengali , Chinese , Greek , Gujarati , Hindi , Italian , Panjabi , Polish , Portuguese , Spanish , Turkish and Urdu ( as used in Britain ) were the bodies who had supported the initiative of the Royal Society of Arts in piloting a Certificate in the Teaching of Urban Educational Studies in the Inner London Education Authority , Moray House College in Edinburgh , Middlesex Polytechnic and St. John 's College of Further Education in Manchester . |
| 9 | There were very few respects in which any of them were even slightly prepossessing . |
| 10 | there were very few places in the town where we could use telephones especially at night . |
| 11 | In Rutland there were very few assessments at £50 in 1522 , and all were prudently reduced to £40 ( more or less ) for the subsidy ; men on £60 or more could not so plausibly shed their surtax liability . |
| 12 | There were very few days of that three months patrol when the met. |
| 13 | Sixty-four years ago , when I was a small boy of eight , there were very few cars on the roads and we went everywhere by train . |
| 14 | ln cricket there were very few opportunities with only fifteen first-class counties and the Lancashire League sides , who had only one full professional per team . |
| 15 | There were very few rumours about top players moving from province to province . |