Example sentences of "be that [adv] few " in BNC.
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| 1 | Evidence about who actually acts as an unpaid carer has to be pieced together from various statistical sources , but the best informed estimates seem to be that very few people are cared for by non-relatives , and that women provide about 75 to 85 per cent of relative care . |
| 2 | What lends this observation particular piquancy however is that remarkably few players sound particularly good . |
| 3 | What is surprising is that so few feminist researchers in the sociology of education have chosen to look at higher education , when so much work has been done on secondary education and , to a lesser extent , on primary education . |
| 4 | Having said all of this my experience with patients is that very few of them persist in taking their LM remedy until they begin to prove it and who can blame them ! |
| 5 | The point is that very few firms now invest large sums of money in a new venture unless they are very sure that there is a demand for it . |
| 6 | One of the damaging implications of the recession is that very few employers are now able or willing to offer employment to trainees . |
| 7 | The consequence was that very few Yugoslav enterprises were established mainly to satisfy export demand . |
| 8 | The trouble was that very few members of the audience at the Theatre Royal , Brighton , understood either what he was saying or why they had spent the money on going to see him in the first place . |