Example sentences of "by a very [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These tints are balanced by a very little warm colour on a road and gravel pit in the foreground , a single house in the middle distance , and the scarlet jacket of a labourer . |
| 2 | A young girl who haunts the Feathers Hotel , a one time serving wench , and only seen by a very few . |
| 3 | Although there are specialist personnel and industrial relations roles , we found that in smaller firms the negotiations with trade unions were carried by a very few managers . |
| 4 | There are important languages only spoken in their countries of origin — Japanese , for instance , and Korean ; some Pacific languages unrelated to each other or to any other linguistic group on earth : Ainu , for example , which is not spoken outside Hokkaido Island in Japan and has no relationship at all to Japanese ; and Gilyak , which is used only by a very few people on Sakhalin Island — a place known only as being the birthplace of the actor Yul Brynner , and near where the Korean airliner KE 007 was shot down in 1983 . |
| 5 | And even though Sayers and Adams are psychologists , their work is only recognizable as psychology by a very few feminist psychologists . |
| 6 | Even the works of a poet such as Spenser , highly acclaimed by many other contemporary writers and influential on them , were only available to be read by a very few . |