Example sentences of "[ex0] [be] very [adv] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 People there are very very poor .
2 ‘ And there are very very few women willing to take old people in these days , not with the pension .
3 there are , there are very very few who are chasing women or men and there are very very few who are er requiring to be prised out of the bar erm at two o'clock in the morning .
4 there are , there are very very few who are chasing women or men and there are very very few who are er requiring to be prised out of the bar erm at two o'clock in the morning .
5 There are very very few who are er interested in finding a gambling haunt or a , you know , television or film theatre or whatever , you know , er er by and large there are a lot of people who chat to a waitress if they 're a bloke or , or chat to the , the whatever it is if they 're girls but er in , in a , in a friendly way , who will have a drink but will not be paralytically drunk , who may watch television or a , you know , film or theatre or something if it 's appropriate but wo n't get twitched if it is n't , you know , and and by and large erm all the people we 've , we 've , we 've , we 've come across I came across before have been very very good company and it is , it is delightful to have the have you , cos have you been on a Si on a Signpost ?
6 Because of the chemical dissolving process , there are very much larger volumes of both solid and liquid waste to be dealt with than at any other nuclear site .
7 Not that conditions there were very much better .
8 Er there were very very few that had a regular job , really .
9 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 .
10 I wish they had have attended , the Tories , because there were very very few people prepared to come and speak in favour of Trusts .
11 For the vast majority of the work that we do there is very seldom any criticism , and in actual fact there is mostly a clamour for more activity and more and better work .
12 I would disagree with the premise erm I 've found that where public money is involved in the arts there is very occasionally public criticism of what we do .
13 It is shown that there was very often little to be gained from approaching government institutions with attitudes which would have been considered proper by British administrators .
14 So they , they just had to try and save er from the , the man 's wages and if , and , and if they were n't in work there was very very little money at all .
15 There was very very strong brand loyalty . ’
16 Say the town had only got three and a bit thousand people anyhow , three thousand people , erm there was very very little actual passenger traffic .
17 And that 's when , you see during I can just remember previous to the war them coming there and then of course during the war there was very very few of them on the road then and then after the war they started to come back and that 's when this Billy and Harry and that came up from the side .
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