Example sentences of "very few [noun] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Besides , very few others had the opportunity . |
| 2 | For the most part the scribes who copied the Pentateuch were very careful , and it would seem that very few errors crept into the Hebrew text . |
| 3 | Very few visitors came into 23 Maple Gardens . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | There 's very few folk left that can remember the , who the tinkers used to come up there and |
| 6 | At the start of the campaign , constituency candidates were almost invisible to the electorate : very few electors claimed to have heard anything about them . |
| 7 | The very few editorials included were largely confined to discussing technical matters of scholarship , and the Review did not , in general , speak out directly on wider cultural political issues . |
| 8 | In Claudia 's time very few Masai spoke Swahili . |
| 9 | Very few families survived on a single wage . |
| 10 | Very few boys impressed Victoria ; they all seemed inadequate beside her brother . |
| 11 | Very few writers had actually been to the world outside Europe . |
| 12 | Very few women left the trade before retiring age for reasons other than marriage , ill-health , or care of a relative . |
| 13 | Very few women took part in training , which was surprising when one considers how important a part many of them played on the farm . |
| 14 | The Army and Navy have moved significantly down the path towards contracting out and have very few contracts left to be put out for the first time . |
| 15 | Following a survey for the Widdicombe Committee , Professor Miller concluded that ‘ very few respondents declared a willingness to vote in a local election for the major party they opposed nationally ’ ( Widdicombe 1986 , III : 106 ) . |
| 16 | All proceedings were held in English , a language with which very few inhabitants had familiarity . |
| 17 | Very few Namibians reached the end of secondary school . |
| 18 | Even if Liverpool methods had been universally adopted — and very few areas had the same religious background as Liverpool , the real basis of Salvidge 's success — then change would be slow and limited . |
| 19 | Very very few girls kissed , and the ones that did were n't necessarily the best kissers . |
| 20 | But very few Englishmen came to know Aquitaine ; that is why Ralph of Diss took the trouble to include a lengthy description of the duchy and its inhabitants in his chronicle . |
| 21 | The chronicles record the large number of French who , at the day 's end , lay dead on the field , while , by contrast , very few Englishmen lost their lives . |
| 22 | There are very few characters left now . ’ |
| 23 | As far as we know , very few boards took advantage of this opportunity , relying almost exclusively on education authorities and colleges of education . |
| 24 | Although he died in 1940 at the age of 35 , he had in the space of very few years produced a quite prodigious range of political and literary texts . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | And in the morning you used to have soaky very few pe very few lads had breakfast , bacon and eggs , in those days . |
| 27 | Very few husbands took on any household chores . |
| 28 | In 1984 Birthright had an income of £600,000 , and very few people had heard of it . |
| 29 | Our main survey ( Appendix 1 , text preceding Table 24 ) showed that very few people had had any difficulty getting the type of credit they had decided on . |
| 30 | Additionally , a very few people had failed to get what they wanted from one source , so had used some other source instead . |