Example sentences of "[coord] very few " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or very few . |
| 2 | This suggested that COL1A2 might be a susceptibility locus for alcoholic cirrhosis with one , or very few , predisposing mutations possible . |
| 3 | There are billions of possible ways of putting together the bits of an airliner , and only one , or very few , of them would actually be an airliner . |
| 4 | Similarly , of all the millions of unique and , with hindsight equally improbable , arrangements of a heap of junk , only one ( or very few ) will fly . |
| 5 | The output probe order of the annealing is then broken into a set of probe contigs , with either no or very few clones connecting the last probe of one contig to the first probe of the next . |
| 6 | Nowadays many of us find that a bit strange , after all I do n't think any of us or very few of us here in this room have actually given our express consent to be British subjects . |
| 7 | None of them , or very few of them , if you buy a good quality one is dangerous . |
| 8 | None of them , or very few of them , if you buy a good quality one is dangerous . |
| 9 | Most people thought their newspapers were biased and very few thought ITV news was biased . |
| 10 | Surveys of opinion invariably revealed that , while attachment to Britain remained strong , patriotic emotions still flourished , and very few people ever wished to live anywhere but in Britain , estimates of national progress and decline were progressively more gloomy . |
| 11 | Installation of these devices proved costly and very few were used . |
| 12 | In 1984 Birthright had an income of £600,000 , and very few people had heard of it . |
| 13 | Poor , vulnerable government makes every problem worse , particularly in a continent where so many factors contributed to increasing poverty and very few to wealth . |
| 14 | ‘ It is occasionally indicated to us that we are apparently setting out to give the public what we think they need and not what they want — but few know what they want , and very few what they need , ’ Reith had pronounced . |
| 15 | A dress can be worn with clumpy men 's shoes ; tracksuit bottoms and loose tops are comfortable , roomy and worn by either sex ; second-hand clothes can be put together with new ones ; and very few people believe the laws that fashion writers once laid down , such as ‘ no horizontal stripes or light colours for bigger women ’ . |
| 16 | The professors are of an inferior order , and very few of the students even approach mediocrity . ’ |
| 17 | However that may be , I was soon to discover that I was not a natural disburser of ‘ my card ’ , and very few people received one . |
| 18 | Being big is not necessarily a good thing : most organisms are bacteria and very few are elephants . |
| 19 | When this happens , cells stay much longer in the progress zone than they normally would , and very few cells leave the progress zone at early stages . |
| 20 | Social-work training courses are characterised by negligible input on work with elderly people , and very few students choose this field for projects or placements . |
| 21 | The recent survey Trends in public library selection policies shows that about 20 % of public libraries do not even allocate to categories such as adult fiction , or children 's books , and very few record stock revision separately . |
| 22 | The whole style of the Jersey is dainty , aristocratic and almost deerlike and very few of the world 's cattle have this quality or have calves that are so like fawns . |
| 23 | Fjallbrant 's 1981 survey of user education in Australian academic libraries showed that 40% evaluated the orientation programmes , 60% the manual information retrieval courses and very few libraries evaluated courses in computerized information retrieval . |
| 24 | We visited Anguilla in the winter season which runs from December 15 to March 31 and were blessed with beautiful sunshine and very few tourists . |
| 25 | If the frail or housebound are to eat properly , it is essential to see that they have help with their shopping , for carrying or pushing heavy baskets soon becomes an impossibility and very few shops now deliver goods . |
| 26 | You have to take a back seat and be ‘ an unselfish performer ’ , and very few successful acts or ‘ stars ’ are unselfish . |
| 27 | One local said : ‘ It is a very remote region indeed and very few people ever get up there . ’ |
| 28 | Anecdotal evidence , however , suggests that the follow-through has been patchy , and very few retailers are assuming anything other than that the consumer has put away cheque book and credit cards and is unlikely to venture forth until confidence begins to build again . |
| 29 | UK deregulation meant that the smaller , traditional banks suddenly had to compete on a global scale , and very few had the financial power necessary . |
| 30 | Queries from consumers have in practice been rare , and very few indeed of these ( fewer than one in one-thousand enquiries ) reveal mistakes . |