Example sentences of "but very few [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their pay varied , but very few girls in these occupations ever earned as much as the 12s-13s a week , which as we have seen is what a girl compositor could be earning by the time she was about 20 , with the ( limited but real ) possibility of earning more later . |
| 2 | But very few collectors from Northern Europe or the United States made the journey . |
| 3 | The Labour party had an unsurprising and intuitive dislike of the Public School , but very few ideas about what might be done . |
| 4 | Eighteenth-century maps of historic towns often show elaborate formal gardens behind the houses , but very few traces of these remain . |
| 5 | Magnolia acuminata received more precise acknowledgment : ‘ … there are but very few plants at present here , nor is it very common in the habitable parts of America . |