Example sentences of "a [adv] few [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Beyond the shelf , accumulation seems to be concentrated In a comparatively few deep water basins . |
| 2 | Clearly the ornithologist must expect the evolution of agriculture to continue , and its most likely result will be to produce a much more uniform habitat with consequently a much less varied bird population than at present , composed of a comparatively few widespread and adaptable species . |
| 3 | Except for a very few rich people , they are all financially much less well off than they were . |
| 4 | These days , when she occasionally took over from Annunciata and brushed Mrs Browning 's hair , she marvelled that a woman so much older than herself should still have such black , black hair with only a very few silver threads in it ( which she was instructed to pull out ) . |
| 5 | Moreover , they are concentrated in a very few geographic locations . |
| 6 | Together with a very few other insects , they have developed an immunity to the poison . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ Only a very few failed and they must have been bloody awful . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ it is not the great mass of publications ( each constituting but a minor increment to the sum of human knowledge ) which contribute most to scientific progress , but a small number of key papers , each of which has a very great impact on the advance of knowledge … only a very few elite scientists produce work that becomes the base for future discoveries . ’ |
| 10 | Only a very few civil servants within the recipient government understand what the project is really about . |
| 11 | Emmenthal and Gruyère are the most famous , Emmenthal having the distinctive holes , a nutty flavour and drawing threads when heated , whereas Gruyère has a very few small holes , if any , and melts readily and evenly . |
| 12 | A very few forward-looking companies follow up on these courses by allowing employees to cut down to a four-day week from six months before retirement , reducing again to a three-day week in the last three months . |
| 13 | For it is one of the most noticeable features of the " actually existing democracies " ( to adapt a useful phrase of Rudolf Bahro 's ) that the democratic principle is confined to a very few public institutions and many voluntary organizations , while a vast range of centrally important institutions continue to be run by largely unaccountable and unelected oligarchies and individual autocrats . |
| 14 | The only thing was to push me at once to the front ; and almost immediately , after a very few brief words from the distinguished chairman , I found myself face to face with an audience that evidently meant mischief . |
| 15 | It perhaps is a function of the early stage of interpreter development in the UK ( though there are only a very few positive indications that the situation is different in other more developed countries ) and one can expect a change of provision , attitude and therefore skill . |
| 16 | Closed villages were those in which a resident squire owned most or all of the land in the parish , or those in which a very few large farmers maintained an oligarchy over local landownership . |
| 17 | Rostov was one of a very few special exceptions to the Imperial edict which excluded commoners from access to the bi-annual treatment which was necessary for administration of the drug , but he saw no reason to apprise the Adjudicator of the fact . |
| 18 | Here only a very few unusual men are retained in the public eye for prolonged periods . |
| 19 | And even though Sayers and Adams are psychologists , their work is only recognizable as psychology by a very few feminist psychologists . |
| 20 | In fact islands with multiple barrier reefs are unknown , although a very few double reefs are known . |
| 21 | Clinton 's second allegation , that there has been collusion between the security forces and Protestant para-military groups , is based on a very few isolated cases in which part-time members of the Ulster Defence Regiment ( UDR ) have been found guilty of passing on sensitive information . |
| 22 | 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 ) . |
| 23 | Its distinguishing feature is that it uses only a very few basic operators — typically just one , called modus ponens , or some equivalent — which are very well understood and reliable . |