Example sentences of "to [art] [adv] few " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is now known , however , that it is made up of basaltic rocks , derived indirectly from peridotite , and erupted by volcanic action along the ridge itself , building up the long submarine mountain range and giving rise to the relatively few volcanoes which poke their heads above sea level . |
| 2 | Lack of robustness of the findings may be due to the relatively few numbers of still births in the interval classes and to other data problems , though the intervention of determinants that mediate the effect of birth interval , or some other factor can not be excluded either . |
| 3 | In most fields the nineteenth century was the age of the textbook , such as Thomas Thomson 's in chemistry and Lyell 's in geology , where successive editions made the earlier ones obsolete ; the plates that survive usefully are perhaps to be compared to the very few classic books like the Origin of Species which go on selling . |
| 4 | He lived for his profession , so much so that , instead of limiting himself to examining the remains of bomb-blast victims , he attended the courses and lectures available only to a very few on bomb-making and disarming offered at Fort Halstead . |
| 5 | The Council 's permission for many priests to share in a single concelebration was again , initially , limited to a very few occasions , but before the end of the 1960s the absurdity of the former practice had become rather obvious and concelebration was rapidly becoming the norm for all circumstances where the number of priests exceeded the number of community Masses needed for a pastoral purpose . |
| 6 | In a system which promises promotion , status and success to all and , in reality , confines these rewards to a very few , disappointment is inevitable . |
| 7 | For it is one of the most noticeable features of the " actually existing democracies " ( to adapt a useful phrase of Rudolf Bahro 's ) that the democratic principle is confined to a very few public institutions and many voluntary organizations , while a vast range of centrally important institutions continue to be run by largely unaccountable and unelected oligarchies and individual autocrats . |
| 8 | What we were criticized and several senior councillors quite rightly said , the five thousand pound we were spending was only going to a very few . |