Example sentences of "only [art] [adv] few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only the relatively few places at these institutions provide full-time care , particularly for single mothers . |
| 2 | In only a very few pages , we have left the twentieth century far behind and discovered that these two descend from the Lombardic heroes mentioned in the Old English poem Widsith ( Aelfwin and Eadwin ) ; and since Aelfvin means ‘ Elf-friend ’ , we are not surprised to find ourselves drifting further back to the times when elves still walked the earth , before Numenor ( the Atlantis of the Tolkien mythology ) had sunk beneath the waves . |
| 3 | This has several drawbacks , including the fact that even when all the weak stems of the words in a search co-occur , they may do so in only a very few records , and there may be other relevant records retrievable by adding one or more strong stems . |
| 4 | The route from gene to observed effect can be very tortuous and has been worked out in only a very few cases so far . |
| 5 | I myself am going to take only a very few minutes that are left to me to comment on some of the points that were raised in the debate . |
| 6 | Part-time workers who work only a very few hours do not benefit from many of the forms of employment protection introduced by legislation over the last decade or so , although those part-time workers who work at least half the usual hours are covered on some items . |
| 7 | Everything eaten turns to wind and they may feel full and distended after only a very few mouthfuls with momentary relief ( > ) from belching . |
| 8 | After only a very few years of teaching it becomes the twenty-first or the forty-ninth . |
| 9 | Again , this was a 1960s fad which lasted only a very few years ( c 1966–69 ) , although split-screen sequences had occasionally appeared in fantasy films such as musicals in the 1940s and '50s . |
| 10 | Despite statistics which reveal a reducing young population , only a very few employees will accept 40s and they are rare indeed who even interview 50s . |
| 11 | He 's taught many a Clubrep to ski and with only a very few exceptions , he can virtually guarantee to get you up and around the bay first time . |
| 12 | In the event there remained only a very few clients with a need for care beyond normal services . |
| 13 | Births in a family which pre-date a marriage or follow it by only a very few months were increasingly common and apparently quite acceptable in the late 18th century ; here in Victorian London , however , the suspiciously early arrival of little Benjamin James ( on 11 December 1846 — rather less than nine months after the marriage ) was regarded , it seems , with a touch of disquiet . |