Example sentences of "to a very few " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | In a system which promises promotion , status and success to all and , in reality , confines these rewards to a very few , disappointment is inevitable . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |