Example sentences of "very few " in BNC.
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| 1 | In my own case , he wrote , and I can speak only for myself , in my own case and in my own life there have been very few genuine beginnings , only three or perhaps four . |
| 2 | Yet very few British caterers attempt to make pasta themselves , possibly because of the enormous diversity of ready-made pasta available on the UK market . |
| 3 | His mischievous words , however , were to prove within a very few minutes appallingly prescient . |
| 4 | Very few people do , sir . |
| 5 | Obviously if you are flying over a bad area , with very few good sized fields , it is necessary to divert towards the best area within range and to start looking seriously for a field at several thousand feet . |
| 6 | In those days quite a number of Diamond heights were attempted in large shower clouds and cumulo nimbus , whereas very few are flown today because of the unacceptable risks involved . |
| 7 | The last is always the more interesting type ; not infrequently he or she is an impressive doer , sometimes an eloquent speaker ; some , very few , are both . |
| 8 | His family probably cares ( no one to support them ) but very few others . |
| 9 | Our players are out not to lose , relying on others to make mistakes ; very few of our players have winning shots . |
| 10 | The benefits of this type of training for the heart and lungs are enormous , but very few people who train ever reach this level . |
| 11 | It had very few jewels in its crown . |
| 12 | The yard looks busy , but close examination reveals that very few wagons were carrying traffic . |
| 13 | Since Fokine showed that dancers must also be able to act if they are to live out the story or theme , very few choreographers have used the almost static scènes d'action which stop the flow of dance . |
| 14 | His work must , therefore , be considered as one of the very few character/national ballets of its time , like the Russian ballets of Fokine . |
| 15 | Nevertheless it is worth citing some instances where the continual use of one or a very few gestures can fully describe the feelings of some characters and convey their reactions to the circumstances of the plot or theme . |
| 16 | Steve Meyers claimed one of the very few good problems left at Tremadog when he found a way through the steep ground right of Erebus , providing No Holds Barred E6 6c . |
| 17 | Very few of us naturally look like our dogs so a little augmentation might be called for . |
| 18 | Ali were doomed to perish except a chosen few , a very few . |
| 19 | Very few readers will notice this discrepancy , but all are flicked and jabbed at and irritated — those circling insects — by contradiction , by undetermination followed by overdetermination of reasons , by the narrator 's fuss over details which do n't matter , his youthful sententiousness about women ( ‘ the depths of the female heart ’ ) and other irrelevancies , his moralizing , his way of wantonly bleeding a robust narrative with ‘ However , that may only have seemed so ’ , his ‘ I have already described ’ when he has n't , his promises to explain later which are n't kept when the reader does n't want explanation anyhow , he wants the story . |
| 20 | His major work was done in Russia in the 1930s and 1940s , he suffered Stalinist repression , was partly rehabilitated , and died in 1975 , at a time when very few people in the West had heard of him . |
| 21 | Very few men do have any moments whatever , and for the benefit of such readers as have not sufficiently respected Mr Binyon for his , it would be well to set forth a few of them . |
| 22 | He said that in the last two years he had met very few institutions which had not cut back their system budgets following the 1987 crash in share prices in the stock market . |
| 23 | But no matter how often the archives are ransacked for old genres to bastardise , you do n't have to be at the forefront of style-making to foresee that very few clubs will be swaying this time next year to Pub Acid , Hip Malt ` n ’ Hops , or Sweaty Backroom House . |
| 24 | He has two kinds of Test performance — five for very few , and none for a lot , and this was looking like the latter . |
| 25 | Very few have been evaluated , and the evidence is largely anecdotal , he said . |
| 26 | ‘ We are going to start to combat the transport congestion and make the investment in communications without which commercial Britain will judder to an expensive and dangerous halt in a very few years . |
| 27 | Mr Kinnock said : ‘ We are going to start to combat the transport congestion and make investment in communications without which commercial Britain will judder to an expensive halt in a very few years . |
| 28 | There might also be a very few closures , it said . |
| 29 | Yardley , a second- or third-change bowler throughout his career , was rightly proud to be one of the very few who could claim to have dismissed Bradman thrice in Test matches . |
| 30 | There are few cars here , though lots of bicycles , very few dogs and almost no dog mess ( even the horse-drawn buggies for tourist joyrides have built-in pooper scoopers ) . |