Example sentences of "still very [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At present about 30% of District General Hospitals in the United Kingdom provide such programmes , but the extent and quality of these programmes is still very variable ; probably less than 10% of eligible patients overall are offered their facilities . |
| 2 | When Isaac is still very small , she sees Ishmael playing with him . |
| 3 | None of these figures is very different from the earlier stages of weathering , and it would seem that even after more than three years of exposure to weathering , the damage and/or loss of bone is still very small . |
| 4 | The number occurring has increased steadily since 1938 , although the population is still very small . |
| 5 | The total audience was still very small . |
| 6 | In the late 1950s , however , his Office was still very small and not equipped to take on the extra load . |
| 7 | Four weeks later — as a foetus — the child is recognisable as such : it is still very small and is not fully formed but it has a head , mouth , eyes and nose and the limbs have fingers and toes . |
| 8 | Even as a proportion of the number of workers on strike for two weeks or more , the figures are still very small — 4.4 per cent in 1965 and 36.8 per cent in 1971 , the year of the post office workers ' strike . |
| 9 | I was still very small … |
| 10 | The prestige of the armed archangel was and is still very great . |
| 11 | The trouble and expense involved in all dealings with land is still very great in the absence of any general provision for preserving any public record of title . |
| 12 | During the twentieth century two world wars have resulted largely from the conflicts among European nations , spreading in the Second World War to encompass the rivalry between the US and Japan ; and although that war may also be considered from one aspect as an ideological confrontation between fascism and democracy , the influence of nationalism was still very great . |
| 13 | Even after his first round of 69 , Woosnam was still maintaining that he had not been looking forward to playing , that it had not done much for his confidence and that he was still very nervous with the putter in his hand . |
| 14 | The two mares moved round their enclosures side by side , Gary 's mare still very nervous , her eyes glinting . |
| 15 | I promised I would and she 's still very nervous , I think . |
| 16 | Even when day centres or playgroups were willing they were often still very nervous , and afraid of making mistakes . |
| 17 | The first days and weeks of my new job were difficult both for me and for my employers , because my English , when it came to the test , was still very elementary . |
| 18 | Mirrors were still very dubious household items . |
| 19 | ‘ Jim 's still very shocked . |
| 20 | Audra was her name , and she was nice-looking all right : thin , but still very womanly looking , if you understand me . |
| 21 | To cut a still very shapeless and incoherent story short , this latest analysis has taken advertising well away , it seems to me , from any possibility of a single , coherent theory of how it can work . |
| 22 | Some months later , though still very weak , he managed to escape to Turkey , mostly by walking . |
| 23 | Thereafter the proportion of radicals coming from noble backgrounds decreased , but the correlation between political allegiance and social origins was still very weak in the period before 1914 . |
| 24 | We have now been marching for more than four hours , it 's still very dark . |
| 25 | The Damsel is still very dark in colour and I think it is blind , as it swims around and bumps into things , although it 's feeding well . |
| 26 | When Willie awoke it was still very dark . |
| 27 | It was his first call of the day and it was still very dark . |
| 28 | When she went downstairs to make herself some toast it was still very dark , although it was eight o'clock and she could hear the children talking in their room . |
| 29 | I am still very critical of my own shape but I console myself with the fact that while it is far from perfect , it is better than it used to be . |
| 30 | Industry is generous to Imperial — it endows chairs , sponsors students and gives the college millions of pounds of research contracts every year — but , despite that , Ash is still very critical of it . |