Example sentences of "very few [noun pl] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are very few artists whose genuine records attract prices which justify forgeries . |
| 2 | 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 . " |
| 3 | In a very few moments she was racing from her room and into the sitting-room . |
| 4 | I can conceive of very few matrons who would entrust their menfolk to such temptation . ’ |
| 5 | He said that in the last two years he had met very few institutions which had not cut back their system budgets following the 1987 crash in share prices in the stock market . |
| 6 | With the exception of very few families who had the protection of the British consulate , the Jews were defenceless . |
| 7 | There are very few women who do not find that their own happiness and the quality of their home life are vitally linked . |
| 8 | Because there are very few women who have extended lengths of continuous employment with a single employer , male-female wage differentials are large in middle age . |
| 9 | She would too ; there were very few women who could resist charm like that . |
| 10 | Without the fourth gospel there were very few sayings which could be taken as directly expressing what Jesus ' own self-understanding might have been ; for most of these statements are in it , not in the synoptics . |
| 11 | The CAB has a long history of mobilising professionals such as lawyers , accountants and surveyors , to advise clients on a voluntary basis but there are very few lawyers who specialise in welfare benefits or money advice . |
| 12 | But in the depth of Winter say , er from November up to after Christmas , there were very very few things you could notice and erm goodness knows how many times I fell back on he was one of the last persons to be churning with horsepower . |
| 13 | As a result , there are very few materials which are inert in the body and indeed it may be argued that none are truly inert in this context . |
| 14 | It is now clear that there are very few towns which just grew because they were at suitable locations . |
| 15 | Richard Taruskin has suggested that some initial American resistance to the a cappella theory of chanson performance in the Middle Ages was inevitable because American ensembles of the 1970s possessed very few singers who could be imagined giving a satisfactory demonstration of such a performing technique . |
| 16 | We found very few teachers who kept no records of any kind . |
| 17 | In the past , companies put ‘ great responsibility in the hands of very few managers who became ‘ all-rounders ’ covering large areas both in terms of product and geography' . |
| 18 | Very few managers who can do this around . |
| 19 | He made use of the Cabinet-committee structure as a filter for business , though he chaired very few committees himself ( the main exceptions were the Economic Policy and Defence committees ) . |
| 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 | From the very few interviews we conducted we were given to understand that the birth parents would not have opposed adoption if the links could be maintained ( Lambert et al . , |
| 22 | Against these powerful Heathite figures , there were indeed very few colleagues whom the Prime Minister could safely regard as ‘ one of us ’ . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Within a very few years it succeeded in drastically altering the climate in its own homelands — much to the pain of surviving Liberals , such as Harnack , who saw in the entire regrettable enterprise the swamping of properly respectable theological and historical study by a wave of sheer barbarism , of uncouth and indeed vulgar ‘ enthusiasm ’ . |
| 25 | The smaller the unit , the shorter should be the stay inside it — there are very few patients who need to be contained within a locked unit of this kind for more than a few days . |
| 26 | With very few exceptions they have refrained from ostentation : indeed their Nonconformist distaste for personal extravagance , reinforced by infusions of Scottish blood , has sometimes prompted small economies which , in the light of their extraordinary benevolence to good causes , have been accepted as amusingly careful instead of absurdly mean . |
| 27 | Really with very few exceptions it 's simply a bit of harmless fun . |
| 28 | So there are very few places we ca n't be found . |
| 29 | He based this conclusion on a very few individuals who married within their peer group in the kibbutz and were found to have entered the kibbutz during their childhood and usually after the age of six . |
| 30 | Moreover , it was these official publications which were responsible for employing the very few Africans who gained journalistic and editorial experience . |