Example sentences of "[vb infin] very few [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the Third Reading , for instance , at a stage when one would expect very few amendments of any substance , some thirty-two amendments were put down on only twenty-four hours ' notice . |
| 2 | Coleman himself had used freelance credentials supplied by Mutual Radio to get into Libya after Operation El Dorado Canyon a year earlier , and he would meet very few stringers during his various spells of duty in the Middle East who did not supplement their incomes from journalism by supplying material to government agencies like the DEA . |
| 3 | I could discover very few details about either of these women . |
| 4 | Some in the Republic believe , though , that the decision to call off the tours would suit the SARU , who have been made aware that three matches in four days in Bucharest in the middle of June followed by two in a week in Rome could leave very few survivors from heat stroke . |
| 5 | The government is now washing its hands of the industry as it hands it over to a rigged market which will leave very few pits in Britain and the destruction of an asset which the British people asked the government to save and which the government said they were going to save . |