Example sentences of "of the very [adj] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All he could see was a large boy wearing the uniform of one of the charity schools , where the children of the very poor used to go . |
| 2 | But staying with this definition for the time being , there is a general assumption in much writing in this field that although total age related dependency may not be about to rise very much , the shift to larger numbers of elderly and the fall in the numbers of the very young will increase the costs of dependency because the elderly are more costly ; they make more demands on expensive services than the young . |
| 3 | However , the numbers of the very elderly will increase substantially : there are likely to be 1.2 million people aged 85 and over in 2006 ( Population Projections 1985–2025 , 1987 , Appendix II ) , an increase of 75 per cent over the 1986 figure . |
| 4 | Whether old people in societies which revere the wisdom and expertise of the very old would welcome advanced age , I do not know . |
| 5 | Outside the town the country folk spoke mainly their native Gaelic and some of the very old could speak no English . |