Example sentences of "very few [noun pl] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Probably very few diaries of this sort are kept these days . |
| 2 | Salt was one of the very few necessaries of life that could not be produced anywhere and had to be transported from the centres of production on the sea coasts , on tidal rivers , and from certain inland centres . |
| 3 | The reputation of Hautvillers has , understandably , grown from the legend of Dom Pérignon ; at that time , although very few hectares of the abbey 's vineyards were actually located within the commune of Hautvillers , some of its finest wines were made from the group of lower-lying vineyards above l'Écluse . |
| 4 | Very few ideas and very few projects of any significance are implemented by one person alone : Other people 's effort makes it happen — whether they are assistants , subordinates , a staff , a special project team , or a task force of peers assembled just for this effort . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | In anyone 's book that is failure of some magnitude , but the fact for English cricket was simply that there were very few players of real Test class around at the time ; after all , when Mike Gatting , one of the best of the county captains , got his chance he won only twice in twenty-two Tests . |
| 7 | A school , you know , is like — ’ here the headmaster came to a halt , because he had launched into a metaphor without having a metaphor readily to hand ; and in fact he had very few notions of what a school was like — ‘ is like the human body . |
| 8 | If the patient takes more medicine than they need then there will be over-reaction but I have had very few cases of over-reaction and always the state produced has calmed within a day . |
| 9 | Consequently , there are very few cases of this type in the literature . |
| 10 | To her surprise , within a very few minutes of passing the broken signpost , she came upon her ‘ pony tree ’ . |
| 11 | Very few offers of settlement conveyed by the conciliation officer are refused by applicants . |
| 12 | The trouble was that very few members of the audience at the Theatre Royal , Brighton , understood either what he was saying or why they had spent the money on going to see him in the first place . |
| 13 | After Cicero 's De Oratore , there appear to have been very few analyses of the language of humour , comedy and joking , until the twentieth century : at least , judging from Milner 's ( 1972 ) account , cited in Delia Chiaro 's bibliography . |
| 14 | ‘ There are ’ , he said , ‘ very few discussions of Government decisions by full Cabinet . ’ |
| 15 | His colleague Vic Marks wrote that ‘ we willed opposition fast bowlers to bounce him so that we could witness the majesty of his hooking ’ , and there can be very few batsmen of whom that could be said . |
| 16 | When the old Roman city was revived and became London again , from the late ninth century on , one of its prime functions in the eyes of King Alfred and his successors was as a bulwark against the Danes ; his boroughs had a major defensive role to play , and London was the greatest of them — one of the very few cities of this age which came wholly to fill a Roman enceinte . |
| 17 | There are very few fathers of kidnap victims who are n't worried about their financial affairs being looked at too closely . |
| 18 | Very few families of Asian origin are headed by a lone parent . |
| 19 | Quite a number of our own Edinburgh members are " on war service " have been able to trace very few records of women actually doing what is normally regarded as " war work " ( one went to be a nurse , " a few " went to work in munitions , one to the RAF , one to " the services " , undefined ) . |
| 20 | It is very hard to know for the simple reason that very few records of justices ' out-of-sessions activities survive , and although sometimes these cases were heard by two or more justices at petty sessions , even the records of these hearings are scarce and incomplete . |
| 21 | Some of those who thought the statement was true may have had very few experiences of extended dreams , and for them " dreaming " may literally consist of some recollections of thoughts or images which occurred immediately before waking up . |
| 22 | Reeves comments that there are very few collectors of Egyptian art actively buying at the moment ‘ People do n't appreciate that there is a wide variety of pieces available and that there is considerable scope for new collectors ’ . |
| 23 | The trouble is , very few differences of meaning are genuinely of the [ +/; — x ] kind . |
| 24 | Since 1980 there have been very few reports of work design applications or developments . |
| 25 | There were very few searches of the " accounts dictionary " type in which stemming makes the difference between success and total failure . |
| 26 | In a year and a half of reading the literature on small schools , I have come across very few studies of any kind which purport to empirically test any aspect of these three assertions . |
| 27 | In fact , very few responses of this kind were identified . |
| 28 | There are very few hotels of this standard that do n't have showers and toilets . |
| 29 | It was in this context , and in almost no other , that Egyptian practice favoured the use of trusts : for Kreller , in his study of the law of the papyri , notes that with the exception of trust clauses there are very few instances of trusts in the papyri at all . |
| 30 | Hence , chemical studies are confidently carried out on one or at most a very few instances of the materials that chemists are analysing and synthesizing . |