Example sentences of "a [adv] few [noun pl] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On three , if you see then three that we the county council will not support a development of capital , cabinet or executive management , arrangements which would tend to concentrate power in the hands of a relatively few members stifle public debate and diminish the role of the majority of members . |
| 2 | A very few protozoans secrete skeletons of ( for a single cell ) gigantic size , and these also occur in such numbers that they form conspicuous and common fossils . |
| 3 | Roberts argued that up until the last few years , apart from a very few studies made by certain women scholars , women were notable in British sociology mainly by their absence . |
| 4 | But a very few aphids transmitting a virus can cause havoc to sugar beet , for instance . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | A very few mammals show the reverse . |
| 7 | The defendants ( A ) were officials of a union to which all but a very few watermen belonged and wished to bring pressure on C in connection with a grievance at another company controlled by him . |
| 8 | Choice of index technique It is clear that the changes to the indexes caused by even a very few additions mean a great deal of reading and writing of data into the index areas on disk . |