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Very few fried foods are used and the use of salt and pepper is discouraged.
`` Very few wives '', says Dr. Calderone, `` who balance the checkbook, fix the car, choose where the family will live and deal with the tradesmen, are suddenly going to become submissive where sex is concerned.
Very few of them have wavy brownish hair.
Very few of them survive.
Very few mammals other than primates commonly move bipedally by an alternating gait rather than hopping.
Very soon after this he formed a group of equally enthusiastic youngsters and managed to get quite a few local bookings for his band.
Very few others, including Ganteaume, managed to reach the shore on rafts.
Very few players have achieved this feat, but it is being seen increasingly at championship level.
Very few examples of historic butted mail have been found and it is generally accepted that butted mail was never in wide use historically except in Japan where mail ( kusari ) was commonly made from butted links.
Very few records of ninth century events in northern Britain survive.
Very few true bluffs really work in the long run ; the bluffer usually has some kind of strength to his or her hand, but plays the hand as if it were higher than it really is.
Very few Indonesians have access to safe drinking water and must boil it before use.
Very few two-wheeled donkey carts or horse carts, although such carts are very common in other countries in southern, eastern, western and northern Africa.
This makes the Wimseys an unusually ancient family, since " Very few English noble families go that far in the first creation ; rebellions and monarchic head choppings had seen to that " ( as reviewer Janet Hitchman noted in the introduction to Striding Folly ).
Very few students were enrolled in the academy in order to lessen the faculty's teaching burden, and the academy emphasized research and offered to its faculty both the time and the freedom to pursue scientific questions.
Very few highly skilled left-arm wrist spinners have played at the international Test level.
Very few scholars outside of mainstream Islam reject all the quotes ( Hadith ) attributed to Prophet Muhammad that mention the second return of Jesus, the Dajjal and Imam Mahdi, believing that they have no Qur ' anic basis.
Very few changes were made to the kit until 1922 when the club adopted white shirts bearing a deep red " V " around the neck, similar to the shirt worn in the 1909 FA Cup Final.
Very low-fitness genotypes cause their bearers to have few or no offspring on average ; examples include many human genetic disorders like cystic fibrosis.
Very few countries use a war flag that differs from the state flag.
Very few samples are nearly colorless.
Very few people had any experience in government, finance, or administration.
Very few matched strands of natural pearls exist, and those that do often sell for hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Very and ever
Very few Finns have ever got their face on a Markka note during their lifetime, and Kekkonen the last to do so.
Very few NKVD agents were ever officially convicted of the particular violation of anyone's rights.
Very few Turks ever settled on Naxos, and Turkish influence on the island is slight.
Very little of the old town was ever rebuilt, and only a handful of buildings remain.
Very few MCA sound cards were ever produced.
Very few mobiles or networks ever provided this feature, which could in theory offer 115200 bit / s to a user.
Very few Japanese or Korean remains were ever repatriated from the atoll ; thus both Kwajalein and Roi-Namur have ceremonial " cemetery " sites to honor this memory.
However, in Star Control II, Captain Rand is referred to as saying " That is the ugliest freak-face I've ever seen " to his first officer, along with joking that the VUX name stands for Very Ugly Xenoform.
In his Memoirs Stravinsky called Glazunov one of the most disagreeable men he had ever met, adding that the only bad omen he had experienced about the initial ( private ) performance of his symphony was Glazunov having come to him afterwards saying, " Very nice, very nice.
" Very few in the industry ever witnessed Douglass using his invention, as he was notoriously secretive about his work, and was one of the most talked about men in the television industry.
Very few of the early 20th c. expedition diaries, ethnographical notes, reports and drafts for publications were ever recovered.
Very few melanistic tigers have ever been recorded, most being due to excessive markings ( pseudo-melanism or abundism ) rather than true melanism ; no reports of black lions have ever been substantiated.
Very few mattresses have ever come back to life again.
Very few Lisu ever used opium, or its more common derivative heroin, except for medicinal use by the elders to alleviate the pain of arthritis.
Very few stamps of the higher values were ever used, and their prices are 10 – 20 times higher than for mint copies.
Very few examples were struck before he abdicated later that year, but none bearing this portrait ever were issued officially.
Very few men, however, were ever actually prosecuted and executed for consensual sodomy ( no more than five in the entire eighteenth century ).
Very rarely, an ambitious and powerful hakkikt will aspire to become the mekt-hakkikt ( supreme prince ), the leader of all the kif, a status no kif has ever attained.
* Very few Le Conte ’ s have ever been banded.
Very little of Grimbledon Down's internal organisation was ever revealed, but the person in charge was evidently a recurring character named Treem ( no first name given ), a moustached dark-haired man in a chalk pinstripe business suit.
Very few other tubular iron bridges were ever built since more economical bridge designs were soon developed.
The music of Birdsongs of the Mesozoic is almost entirely instrumental, and incorporates many different musical elements ; critic Rick Anderson writes, " Very few bands have ever managed to straddle the worlds of modern classical music and rock as successfully as this one did.
Very low decay rates are needed to avoid excess soft errors, and chip companies have occasionally suffered problems with contamination ever since.
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