Example sentences of "a [adv] few [noun pl] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | To her surprise , within a very few minutes of passing the broken signpost , she came upon her ‘ pony tree ’ . |
| 2 | There were a very few sources of material which were unrationed : parachute nylon could be bought sometimes and this was used for underclothes and men 's shirts . |
| 3 | The other evening , with the help of a lot of film , he put the spotlight on a very few areas of endeavour where he thought we might be actually going right . |
| 4 | Hence , chemical studies are confidently carried out on one or at most a very few instances of the materials that chemists are analysing and synthesizing . |
| 5 | Within a very few weeks of his father 's death , Lewis found himself obliged once more to take up the routines of an Oxford term : weekly tutorials , college meetings and lectures . |
| 6 | After only a very few years of teaching it becomes the twenty-first or the forty-ninth . |