Example sentences of "only [prep] a [adv] few " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only in a very few cases can incompleteness be acceptable . |
| 2 | Only in a very few latitudinal bands is there more land than sea : thanks to Europe and Asia , that stretching from 45°N to 70°N is dominated by land , as is that ( because of Antarctica ) between 70°S and the South pole . |
| 3 | Only in a very few cases are points awarded explicitly to recognize the need to reside in specific rural locations , which is a sad reflection on the past role of allocation policy . |
| 4 | A DNA-DNA colony hybridization study ( 11 ) performed with an IS1151 probe internal to the ORF sequence ( nucleotides 314 to 1303 ) also revealed homologous sequences in some non-epsilon-toxin-producing strains : in all 7 type C strains ( beta-toxin-producing ) , in 3 out of 8 enterotoxin-producing type A strains , but only in a very few non-enterotoxigenic type A strains ( 5 of 108 ) . |
| 5 | He lived for his profession , so much so that , instead of limiting himself to examining the remains of bomb-blast victims , he attended the courses and lectures available only to a very few on bomb-making and disarming offered at Fort Halstead . |
| 6 | Although Christianity is the ‘ state religion ’ of Britain , it is often said that the majority of people who are nominally Christian will go to a church only on a very few occasions in their lives — for a Christmas or Easter service maybe , or a family christening . |
| 7 | There are important languages only spoken in their countries of origin — Japanese , for instance , and Korean ; some Pacific languages unrelated to each other or to any other linguistic group on earth : Ainu , for example , which is not spoken outside Hokkaido Island in Japan and has no relationship at all to Japanese ; and Gilyak , which is used only by a very few people on Sakhalin Island — a place known only as being the birthplace of the actor Yul Brynner , and near where the Korean airliner KE 007 was shot down in 1983 . |