Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] few " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the financial side , it is well known that airline pilots are amongst the best paid professions and until the redundancies of the early 1980s changed the picture somewhat remarkably few of their number were prepared to accept a civil servant 's salary after having enjoyed a very good standard of living . |
| 2 | Although perhaps rather few people rely on their relatives for regular financial support , many people go through times in their lives when such support is important to their capacity to establish or maintain a particular life style . |
| 3 | A fall on Kitzbuehel 's notorious Steilhang two seasons ago ripped his stomach , intestines and rectum so badly few thought he would ever walk again . |
| 4 | So far few commercial companies have taken an active interest in pheromones ; in the UK most of the identification and synthesis is confined to government and university laboratories , notably the ODA Tropical Products Institute , the Agriculture Research Council , and the Wolfson Unit of Chemical Entomology at Southampton University . |
| 5 | So far few have opted for counselling . |
| 6 | Each dt fusion released 17 MeV of energy , and so as few as eight sequential dt fusions are sufficient to release more energy than is contained in a muon at rest ( its ‘ rest energy ’ or mass ) . |
| 7 | While industry sources suggest up to 200 could be employed , Lesli O'Dowd estimates the likely figure at less than a quarter of that , with perhaps as few as 10–15 jobs for local people . |
| 8 | The good news is that only a tiny percentage of these viruses are found in the ‘ wild ’ , perhaps as few as 50 . |
| 9 | Once a water has attained this excellent balance of only relatively few big bream , it is surprising how long it can maintain the balance for a number of years afterwards . |
| 10 | This would , however , be a little unfortunate since only relatively few n-ary operations are either interesting or important . |
| 11 | Everyone knew that there were still a lot of prisoners in the surrounding country ; but only relatively few , those who were not Fascists , knew exactly where they were . |
| 12 | With only very few exceptions , the ruling élites were Christian . |
| 13 | Only very few older people are likely to suffer protein or vitamin deficiency , and when this does occur the deficiency is usually caused either by a specific type of disease or by the diet not being properly balanced . |
| 14 | Only very few smears show signs suggestive of cancer . |
| 15 | Only very few of these pretty little fish reach the aquarium market , coming from the Great Barrier Reef and areas of Oceania . |
| 16 | Mr Gilbert stated categorically that only very few council officials would be party to such information , and would certainly not release it . |
| 17 | General practice fundholders are at one extreme , with regional health authority top sliced budgets , although only very few practices are participating in the most deprived inner city areas . |
| 18 | The six-fold screen , ‘ Courtesans of the Tamaya House ’ , attributed to Utagawa Toyoharu ( 1735–1814 ) , is one of only very few floating world screens and most probably was used in the courtesan 's own apartment . |
| 19 | One of only very few such teaching posts in Europe ( a similar chair exists at Freiburg in Germany ) it further strengthens York University 's Medieval Studies course . |
| 20 | The highest nobility were only very few in numbers , so that when we speak of their hold upon military commands we must , consciously or not , include those who had inherited relatively low noble rank or who had only risen that far through their own efforts . |
| 21 | And as we wait and watch the findings are very much those of Paul in Bristol , that a great deal of these patients get better , and only very few fall into problems . |
| 22 | You know there were only very few electrics , so I said , Well we 've got this money in the benevolent fund . |
| 23 | Only very few other circuits are known to contain turf , and in one case at least , at Cirencester , it was probably inserted as a repair . |
| 24 | Unless you have only very few Windows applications , or enjoy looking at the background ( which may be changed to something prettier ) enlarge the Program Manager to fill the entire screen . |
| 25 | A Financial Times advertisement can produce a large response ( 70-100 ) of which only very few will be serious purchasers . |
| 26 | ONly very few cells in preparations from unstimulated monocytes expressed tumour necrosis factor or interleukin 1 mRNA , while the number of positive cells and the signal intensity increased significantly in preparations of cells stimulated with LPS . |
| 27 | erm towards the end of the century it was just about possible for middle class girls , or a few middle class girls to get a reasonable academic education at one of the G P D S schools — we 've got one in Hove , you know the girls ' public day school trust foundations — but only very few went there and got what would be equivalent now to a kind of secondary education and a very , very , very , very tiny minority of those girls could go on to university if they faced an enormous amount of opposition when they got there and also to get there in the first place , but for most girls there was only a basic elementary education , which increasingly stressed the sort of domestic side of a girl 's vocation . |
| 28 | Until the end of the war so very few folk had beards , and then only short ones nicely trimmed , but into the room came a most handsome young man with a black fuzz of over eight inches . |
| 29 | The population is diminishing due to the advancement of the machine on the farm , so very few men are needed on the land , and many of the young folk have to go elsewhere to find work . |
| 30 | Luckily , I found some good solid 6ft lengths , so very few butt joints were needed in the cladding . |