Example sentences of "very few [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1668 he was elected a fellow of the Royal Society , becoming thereby one of the very few businessmen in that body . |
| 2 | Probably very few diaries of this sort are kept these days . |
| 3 | Salt was one of the very few necessaries of life that could not be produced anywhere and had to be transported from the centres of production on the sea coasts , on tidal rivers , and from certain inland centres . |
| 4 | The reputation of Hautvillers has , understandably , grown from the legend of Dom Pérignon ; at that time , although very few hectares of the abbey 's vineyards were actually located within the commune of Hautvillers , some of its finest wines were made from the group of lower-lying vineyards above l'Écluse . |
| 5 | Everything eaten turns to wind and they may feel full and distended after only a very few mouthfuls with momentary relief ( > ) from belching . |
| 6 | Very few ideas and very few projects of any significance are implemented by one person alone : Other people 's effort makes it happen — whether they are assistants , subordinates , a staff , a special project team , or a task force of peers assembled just for this effort . |
| 7 | There were a very few sources of material which were unrationed : parachute nylon could be bought sometimes and this was used for underclothes and men 's shirts . |
| 8 | In anyone 's book that is failure of some magnitude , but the fact for English cricket was simply that there were very few players of real Test class around at the time ; after all , when Mike Gatting , one of the best of the county captains , got his chance he won only twice in twenty-two Tests . |
| 9 | And finally the other all London game between Crystal Palace and Queens Park Rangers ended without goals and with very few chances to either side . |
| 10 | A school , you know , is like — ’ here the headmaster came to a halt , because he had launched into a metaphor without having a metaphor readily to hand ; and in fact he had very few notions of what a school was like — ‘ is like the human body . |
| 11 | In a very few appearances on the mini tour , he accrued sufficient money to gain his card for the 1991 Volvo Tour . |
| 12 | She has since toured extensively in the USA and parts of Europe , but has made very few appearances in these islands . |
| 13 | If the patient takes more medicine than they need then there will be over-reaction but I have had very few cases of over-reaction and always the state produced has calmed within a day . |
| 14 | Consequently , there are very few cases of this type in the literature . |
| 15 | The very few cases in point suggest that his confidence would not be misplaced . |
| 16 | There are very few cases in which it is automatic for one relative to offer support and unproblematic for the other to accept it . |
| 17 | well erm there , there are very few cases in which the European commission or the court talk about fairness erm , when but , but , but |
| 18 | To her surprise , within a very few minutes of passing the broken signpost , she came upon her ‘ pony tree ’ . |
| 19 | Assuming a mean temperature of 14°C for the earth and lower atmosphere as a whole , all but a very few homeotherms in tropical regions lose heat constantly to the environment . |
| 20 | By the time of the Lancaster House talks , Mrs Thatcher was in power , and I had very few dealings with her , and so I was not invited to participate . |
| 21 | Very few offers of settlement conveyed by the conciliation officer are refused by applicants . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | After Cicero 's De Oratore , there appear to have been very few analyses of the language of humour , comedy and joking , until the twentieth century : at least , judging from Milner 's ( 1972 ) account , cited in Delia Chiaro 's bibliography . |
| 24 | He had met very few Americans in his life and his image of New York was a product of films and gialli , the thrillers he loved to read . |
| 25 | Therefore , DEC has sold very few machines in anticipation of the new range , but sales and marketing activities will be greatly stepped up when it arrives . |
| 26 | ‘ There are ’ , he said , ‘ very few discussions of Government decisions by full Cabinet . ’ |
| 27 | Very few visitors to Goa realise that one of the world 's great travel bargains is at their doorstep . |
| 28 | Very few officers at the level proscribed have ever sought election as councillors . |
| 29 | The contents are secret and have been seen in their entirety by very few officers below the rank of Assistant Chief Constable . |
| 30 | There were very few Dreams about Dreams and Dreaming . |