Example sentences of "a [adv] few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On three , if you see then three that we the county council will not support a development of capital , cabinet or executive management , arrangements which would tend to concentrate power in the hands of a relatively few members stifle public debate and diminish the role of the majority of members . |
| 2 | Before the 1850s this had been a problem of a relatively few families ; in some countries , such as Germany , of hardly any . |
| 3 | In a very few appearances on the mini tour , he accrued sufficient money to gain his card for the 1991 Volvo Tour . |
| 4 | A very few protozoans secrete skeletons of ( for a single cell ) gigantic size , and these also occur in such numbers that they form conspicuous and common fossils . |
| 5 | His mischievous words , however , were to prove within a very few minutes appallingly prescient . |
| 6 | He 'd have been dead in a very few minutes . |
| 7 | To her surprise , within a very few minutes of passing the broken signpost , she came upon her ‘ pony tree ’ . |
| 8 | Which was just as well , as this time he came back after a very few minutes . |
| 9 | I myself am going to take only a very few minutes that are left to me to comment on some of the points that were raised in the debate . |
| 10 | 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 . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ You could put it to the test in a very few minutes , my lord . ’ |
| 12 | In only a very few pages , we have left the twentieth century far behind and discovered that these two descend from the Lombardic heroes mentioned in the Old English poem Widsith ( Aelfwin and Eadwin ) ; and since Aelfvin means ‘ Elf-friend ’ , we are not surprised to find ourselves drifting further back to the times when elves still walked the earth , before Numenor ( the Atlantis of the Tolkien mythology ) had sunk beneath the waves . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | There might also be a very few closures , it said . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Roberts argued that up until the last few years , apart from a very few studies made by certain women scholars , women were notable in British sociology mainly by their absence . |
| 17 | For most students , the decision to follow an arts path or a sciences path is made at the age of 16 , when choosing A levels ; for some students , it is made earlier , at 14 , or , for a very few students , those who have kept their options open , later , after A level . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | In a very few moments she was racing from her room and into the sitting-room . |
| 20 | The list also contains a very few phrases which apparently have no equivalents ( " soap opera " " Z cars " " facts of life " ) , but are included on the grounds that their constituent words have no relation to the meaning of the phrase . |
| 21 | In some cases this is apparently not as arduous a task as it may seem , simply because dischargers find it extremely difficult to portray themselves as ‘ similar ’ to their rivals on more than a very few criteria . |
| 22 | Indeed , when Tolkien arrived , he found that the Old English being dished up to the likes of Betjeman was in a grossly truncated form , and the poetry was mainly seen as a quarry for ‘ gobbets ’ — that is , short passages of a very few lines , used for the purposes of testing the candidates ' knowledge of sound-changes . |
| 23 | Everything eaten turns to wind and they may feel full and distended after only a very few mouthfuls with momentary relief ( > ) from belching . |
| 24 | Some years ago professor Geach made an arrangement of this material , which the editors , professor G. H. von Wright and Miss G. E. M. Anscombe have retained with a very few alterations . |
| 25 | The other evening , with the help of a lot of film , he put the spotlight on a very few areas of endeavour where he thought we might be actually going right . |
| 26 | Many cases of resistance depend on only one or a very few genes . |
| 27 | A very warm day here at Lord 's , breeze just starting to get up a little , in fact the sun has just disappeared behind one of a very few clouds . |
| 28 | We made another such excursion on to Mount Párnes , at its best season — it was still possible ( indeed it is still possible today , though more difficult ) to leave Athens and the world behind after a very few kilometres . |
| 29 | But a very few aphids transmitting a virus can cause havoc to sugar beet , for instance . |
| 30 | A very few errors would he beneficial , by pure chance . |