Example sentences of "in a [adv] few " in BNC.
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| 1 | Beyond the shelf , accumulation seems to be concentrated In a comparatively few deep water basins . |
| 2 | ‘ We are going to start to combat the transport congestion and make the investment in communications without which commercial Britain will judder to an expensive and dangerous halt in a very few years . |
| 3 | Mr Kinnock said : ‘ We are going to start to combat the transport congestion and make investment in communications without which commercial Britain will judder to an expensive halt in a very few years . |
| 4 | He had a genius for explaining a work of art in a very few words . |
| 5 | He 'd have been dead in a very few minutes . |
| 6 | As regards malicious referrals , what seemed to be the case in a very few instances was that at least some of the allegations had substance to them and were worthy of investigation , but in discussion with the parents it seemed possible that the referrer might be using the allegation to progress some dispute with them . |
| 7 | For the study of local history there is , except in a very few cases , little need to look before Saxon times . |
| 8 | ( Note : do n't be tempted to use filter floss as a gravel tidy substitute as it will become fully clogged and impenetrable to water in a very few months . ) |
| 9 | Only in a very few cases can incompleteness be acceptable . |
| 10 | It seemed like a good idea at the time , but that time , I could feel , was running out , and I could see that in a very few years it would have run . |
| 11 | The answer came in a very few days and was as follows : |
| 12 | In a very few cases , serious mental disorders similar to schizophrenia or mania have been reported that may be due to a direct effect of HIV on the brain . |
| 13 | However , you need also to know that in a very few cases , you can get a negative result even though you are infected . |
| 14 | Only in a very few latitudinal bands is there more land than sea : thanks to Europe and Asia , that stretching from 45°N to 70°N is dominated by land , as is that ( because of Antarctica ) between 70°S and the South pole . |
| 15 | In all Boards there was certainly an increase in red tape and committee work , and perhaps a loss of initiative and an unwillingness to take responsibility among managers and engineers , and , in a very few cases , simple unchecked extravagance . |
| 16 | Only in a very few cases are points awarded explicitly to recognize the need to reside in specific rural locations , which is a sad reflection on the past role of allocation policy . |
| 17 | Moreover , they are concentrated in a very few geographic locations . |
| 18 | A DNA-DNA colony hybridization study ( 11 ) performed with an IS1151 probe internal to the ORF sequence ( nucleotides 314 to 1303 ) also revealed homologous sequences in some non-epsilon-toxin-producing strains : in all 7 type C strains ( beta-toxin-producing ) , in 3 out of 8 enterotoxin-producing type A strains , but only in a very few non-enterotoxigenic type A strains ( 5 of 108 ) . |
| 19 | In a very few appearances on the mini tour , he accrued sufficient money to gain his card for the 1991 Volvo Tour . |
| 20 | It 's an allergic condition , usually pretty harmless , but in a very few cases it causes oedema of the larynx — that 's what we 've got here . " |
| 21 | The sign made up of these two elements is arbitrary for two reasons : because , more obviously , the association of a signifier ( the sound-image ‘ tree ’ ) with a signified ( the concept tree ) is , except in a very few cases , fundamentally the product of linguistic convention , not of any natural link ; and , less obviously , because there is also no natural or necessary relationship between the sign as a whole and the reality to which it refers . |
| 22 | In a very few moments she was racing from her room and into the sitting-room . |
| 23 | No vote was taken and Sir John refused to say whether any clubs opposed the deal but he added : ‘ It all went through in a very few minutes . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ You could put it to the test in a very few minutes , my lord . ’ |