Example sentences of "have been very few " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most railways printed a range of tickets for servants entitled ‘ to privilege third class travel ’ , which had quite heavy usage , but servants in higher grades without ‘ All Stations ’ passes and entitled to First Class travel must have been very few . |
| 2 | After Cicero 's De Oratore , there appear to have been very few analyses of the language of humour , comedy and joking , until the twentieth century : at least , judging from Milner 's ( 1972 ) account , cited in Delia Chiaro 's bibliography . |
| 3 | As a result there had been very few scientific studies which would make their case harder to win , he said . |
| 4 | If there had been very few cases , the crime would not have had much importance . |
| 5 | There had been very few patients . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | There have been very few with the gift of Dante or John Milton , who have written at their best when being most Christian . |
| 8 | There have been very few cases where microorganisms have been used for in situ removal of chlorinated , or even petroleum compounds , and conventional biological processes are more commonly used . |
| 9 | So far there have been very few legal challenges to disciplinary action falling short of exclusion , apart from those concerning the use of corporal punishment which is now banned in the state sector . |
| 10 | To the best of my knowledge , for all the talk this question has engendered over the years , there have been very few attempts within the profession to formulate an official answer . |
| 11 | The use of the leap-frog appeal has been surrounded by considerable caution and the very stringent conditions to be met before such an appeal can be taken has meant that there have been very few such appeals . |
| 12 | Since 1980 there have been very few reports of work design applications or developments . |
| 13 | There have been very few attempts systematically to contrast their different properties . |
| 14 | In all my life there have been very few occasions when I badly wanted more money and that was one of them , because on my wage of three shillings a day as an AC2 I was unable to drape her with expensive clothes . |
| 15 | In the Cambrian area Red Star parcels are at a premium — there have been very few delivered around the Aberystwyth area by Roberts Taxis/coaches . |
| 16 | The British Cabinet has been the focal point of much general argument among students of politics , but there have been very few detailed case-studies produced which show how individual decisions were made at that level . |
| 17 | ‘ There have been very few among all my acquaintances among naturalists , ’ he said , ‘ who could appreciate a drawing if it were ever so well done ; and sometimes the better it was done , the less they liked it … ’ |
| 18 | There have been very few direct attempts to assess the significance of corporatism for the administrative branch of the state . |