Example sentences of "be very few [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His colleague Vic Marks wrote that ‘ we willed opposition fast bowlers to bounce him so that we could witness the majesty of his hooking ’ , and there can be very few batsmen of whom that could be said . |
| 2 | Since severe visual handicap , especially total blindness , has a low incidence among school-aged children in the United Kingdom , it is likely that there will be very few children in each local education authority whose education requires significant adaptation as a result of lack of sight or substantially defective vision . |
| 3 | There will be very few privacies in this family which wo n't be relevant to your investigation , Commander . ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | There were very few Dreams about Dreams and Dreaming . |
| 10 | There were very few searches of the " accounts dictionary " type in which stemming makes the difference between success and total failure . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | There were very few respects in which any of them were even slightly prepossessing . |
| 13 | there were very few places in the town where we could use telephones especially at night . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | There were very few days of that three months patrol when the met. |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | There were very few rumours about top players moving from province to province . |
| 19 | To the best of my knowledge , for all the talk this question has engendered over the years , there have been very few attempts within the profession to formulate an official answer . |
| 20 | After Cicero 's De Oratore , there appear to have been very few analyses of the language of humour , comedy and joking , until the twentieth century : at least , judging from Milner 's ( 1972 ) account , cited in Delia Chiaro 's bibliography . |
| 21 | Since 1980 there have been very few reports of work design applications or developments . |
| 22 | A high earner who is paid more than the Upper Earnings Limit ( UEL ) each week does not pay any more contributions ( there are very few women in this position ) . |
| 23 | There are very few hotels of this standard that do n't have showers and toilets . |
| 24 | Consequently , there are very few cases of this type in the literature . |
| 25 | There are very few cases in which it is automatic for one relative to offer support and unproblematic for the other to accept it . |
| 26 | well erm there , there are very few cases in which the European commission or the court talk about fairness erm , when but , but , but |
| 27 | Figure 4.5 illustrates horizontal segregation , showing that in most occupations there is either a clear majority of women or of men ; there are very few occupations in which there is an even proportion of men and women . |
| 28 | Reeves comments that there are very few collectors of Egyptian art actively buying at the moment ‘ People do n't appreciate that there is a wide variety of pieces available and that there is considerable scope for new collectors ’ . |
| 29 | There are very few fathers of kidnap victims who are n't worried about their financial affairs being looked at too closely . |
| 30 | When we come to think about it there are very few owner-occupiers around these days . |