Example sentences of "very few [noun pl] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had come across very few others not of the Kind , with that strength of vision . |
| 2 | Giller and Twomey reason that their river seemed more severely affected than the very few others ever studied . |
| 3 | All the people there are our brothers and sisters and relations so there are very few strangers around and women do n't have to wear Burkhas . |
| 4 | There have been very few cases where microorganisms have been used for in situ removal of chlorinated , or even petroleum compounds , and conventional biological processes are more commonly used . |
| 5 | There are very few cases where all the signals between cells are known . |
| 6 | Despite the constant temptation to misuse an artist 's name , there seem to be very few cases where the customer was actually deceived , although this surely must have happened with some pirate or bootleg records . |
| 7 | This aspect is something that has increased in importance with the rise of inflation because there are very few cases where the deceased would not have been earning more by the date of trial than he was earning at the date of his death . |
| 8 | The route from gene to observed effect can be very tortuous and has been worked out in only a very few cases so far . |
| 9 | Yes , erm , there are very few companies actually offering that that sort of cover . |
| 10 | His mischievous words , however , were to prove within a very few minutes appallingly prescient . |
| 11 | A very few moments later , Mala and I had firm hold of the contract for the job and were taking our leave of a decidedly miffed Emissary . |
| 12 | Yet there are others , on the fringes of power , who see him quite often at meetings of the government , at the very few moments when he shows himself to carefully selected groups of people , or when he travels from place to place . |
| 13 | O K O nine six four one six four one very few calls out there at the moment I mean er . |
| 14 | I find it difficult in my notes that they 're all so mathematical , that you just read through lines and lines of equations and there 's very few sentences in between to explain what 's going on . |
| 15 | I 've received very few replies so the signs can be erected and B either a deputy co-ordinator or the deputies that should come in , now some some oblige a lot of them do n't |
| 16 | Perhaps the most famous incumbent of Stanton Lacy is poor Robert Foulkes , who was one of the very few clergymen ever to have been executed for murder . |
| 17 | The experimental subjects , distracted for a moment by having to make a telephone call and record the predicted temperature for the day , recalled very few dreams indeed compared to the control group . |
| 18 | It has been argued that very few electors usually read them and that many of the commitments made do not enjoy widespread support among voters , even among those voting for the parties that issued them . |
| 19 | The relentless drive to attract more and more foreign investment ( high tech by preference , but practically any would do ) that characterized the 1980s continues and there are now very few countries anywhere in the world that do not have some incentives to attract FDI . |
| 20 | It is one of the very few institutions where the shared goals overcome nationalist or racial considerations . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Very few papers indeed , therefore , had a wide spread of shareholders . |
| 23 | There was a hanging there of two people in a garden , with very few clothes on . |
| 24 | Very few agencies now have their own market research department as such , and the only major agency group in the UK with significant research interests is WPP , which owns BMRB , Research International and Millward Brown , among others . |
| 25 | We got along well , + she had very few friends also , probably as a result of being friendly with me . |
| 26 | Very few students now choose to adopt a well-meaning motherly landlady or a battleaxe with inflexible house-rules . |
| 27 | There have been very few attempts systematically to contrast their different properties . |
| 28 | And Austicks described discounting this year as ‘ literally a non-event , at least in Yorkshire , with very few customers even mentioning the word ’ . |
| 29 | The cobbled lane boasted a pub , the Bargee , which the rivermen used , but it saw very few customers once the wharf gates clanged shut . |
| 30 | Very few women as smart and cocksure as that one arrived at Stowerton station , even from London , even in the height of summer . |