Example sentences of "but a very few " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of this number the great majority went unrecorded , probably even unobserved , but a very few made such an impact on human affairs that they have become significant historical events , and have been described and discussed in the minutest detail . |
| 2 | But a very few aphids transmitting a virus can cause havoc to sugar beet , for instance . |
| 3 | The rewriting of all but a very few of these definitions was deliberately excluded from the programme of the Supplement , as it would have been both impracticable and prohibitively expensive . |
| 4 | The defendants ( A ) were officials of a union to which all but a very few watermen belonged and wished to bring pressure on C in connection with a grievance at another company controlled by him . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Yet in all but a very few , it is people that are the organisation 's most costly and most valuable asset . |