Example sentences of "very few [noun pl] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1668 he was elected a fellow of the Royal Society , becoming thereby one of the very few businessmen in that body . |
| 2 | She has since toured extensively in the USA and parts of Europe , but has made very few appearances in these islands . |
| 3 | The very few cases in point suggest that his confidence would not be misplaced . |
| 4 | There are very few cases in which it is automatic for one relative to offer support and unproblematic for the other to accept it . |
| 5 | well erm there , there are very few cases in which the European commission or the court talk about fairness erm , when but , but , but |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | He had met very few Americans in his life and his image of New York was a product of films and gialli , the thrillers he loved to read . |
| 8 | Therefore , DEC has sold very few machines in anticipation of the new range , but sales and marketing activities will be greatly stepped up when it arrives . |
| 9 | Figure 4.5 illustrates horizontal segregation , showing that in most occupations there is either a clear majority of women or of men ; there are very few occupations in which there is an even proportion of men and women . |
| 10 | Tanzania is one of the very few countries in Africa that broadcasts in only one African language plus that of the former colonial power . |
| 11 | There were very few houses in the road at that time ; it was just a lane , leading to nowhere , and Mrs Browning was the first to acknowledge our presence by formally inviting us to tea . |
| 12 | Hotelling was a leading mathematical economist and statistician and , although he published very few papers in economic theory , his contributions to spatial economics , the economics of exhaustible resources , demand theory , utility theory , the analysis of the incidence of taxation , and welfare economics each assumed the stature of classics in his own lifetime . |
| 13 | Peel has very few friends in the groups he champions but Gedge is an exception . |
| 14 | A high earner who is paid more than the Upper Earnings Limit ( UEL ) each week does not pay any more contributions ( there are very few women in this position ) . |
| 15 | It is probably fair to say that very few hotels in all of Italy can pride themselves on such an enviable position as the Hotel Italia . |
| 16 | VERY FEW things in life beat seeing a steam locomotive in action . |
| 17 | in London there are very few holes in the ground for rubbish . |
| 18 | Within a dozen years Philadelphia , its capital , was among the half-dozen largest English towns in North America and , although it had a population of only a few thousand people , very few towns in England apart from London were much larger . |
| 19 | On Feb. 5 the judge produced a 54-page ruling which noted that there were very few instances in US history of a President testifying in judicial or congressional proceedings , but nevertheless concluded that Poindexter had met the extensive requirements for demonstrating that Reagan 's testimony was " material " to his defence . |
| 20 | It is one of the very few creatures in the world that can kill by electrocution . |
| 21 | Even during the later years of the reign , when Europe was embroiled in the early stages of the Thirty Years ' War and James 's MPs were calling for active English intervention on behalf of Protestants abroad , there were very few complaints in parliament about the state of religion at home . |
| 22 | Their pay varied , but very few girls in these occupations ever earned as much as the 12s-13s a week , which as we have seen is what a girl compositor could be earning by the time she was about 20 , with the ( limited but real ) possibility of earning more later . |
| 23 | It seems that there are very few situations in which support from relatives is totally reliable in the sense that it would be given automatically , and without further thought , when a need is identified . |
| 24 | Suitable weather conditions , ie adequate cloud cover , were considered essential for these risky daylight raids and unfortunately very few days in May and June proved to be usable . |
| 25 | At the beginning of the 1750s very few Englishmen in America had pushed even as far inland as the East India Company had done when it founded its port up the Hughli river at Calcutta . |
| 26 | Unlike the Arabic grammatical system , the English system makes very few distinctions in terms of number , gender , and verb agreement . |
| 27 | Although Christianity is the ‘ state religion ’ of Britain , it is often said that the majority of people who are nominally Christian will go to a church only on a very few occasions in their lives — for a Christmas or Easter service maybe , or a family christening . |
| 28 | There will be very few privacies in this family which wo n't be relevant to your investigation , Commander . ’ |
| 29 | It had very few jewels in its crown . |
| 30 | The government is now washing its hands of the industry as it hands it over to a rigged market which will leave very few pits in Britain and the destruction of an asset which the British people asked the government to save and which the government said they were going to save . |