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 committees ever looked past the first few photos.

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.

However, the philosopher Donald Davidson published a highly regarded essay in 1974, " On the Very Idea of a Conceptual Scheme ," arguing that the notion that any languages or theories could be incommensurable with one another was itself incoherent.

Very few words were borrowed from existing languages, so that attempts to match a source to a particular Elvish word or name in works published during his lifetime are often very dubious.

Very few words of Adûnaic are known, though those that are borrow heavily from various Elven languages.

* Very high-level programming languages

Very often, environmental cognition and moral cognition were not distinguished in these languages.

Very broadly speaking, syllabic meters in these languages follow the same pattern:

Very little is known about this language ( mainly place names and personal names remain ) which is generally believed to have been, in the 1st millennium BCE, Indo-European ; it appears to have shared many features with other Indo-European languages, primarily Celtic ( Gaulish ) and Italic ( Latin and the Osco-Umbrian languages ).

Very few computer languages include built-in support for fixed point values, because for most applications, binary or decimal floating-point representations are usually simpler to use and accurate enough.

Eric Carle ( born June 25, 1929 ) is a children's book author and illustrator who is most famous for his book The Very Hungry Caterpillar, which has been translated into over 50 languages.

Very few traces of the languages of the native peoples of western Iberia ( Celtici, Lusitanians, Conii, or Gallaeci ), or of pre-Roman settlers like the Phoenicians or Carthaginians who settled in eastern Iberia, persist in the language, but there are some exceptions ( most are unconfirmed ).

Very few languages have an interrogative mood.

Very short works such as Ars moriendi, the Biblia pauperum, and versions of the Apocalypse were published as cheap block-books in large numbers of different editions in several languages in the fifteenth century.

Very little is known about these languages or the people who spoke them.

Very few countries of Africa use any single language and for this reason several official languages coexist, African and European.

Very high-level programming languages are usually limited to a very specific application, purpose, or type of task.

Very many language stocks in Asia are without doubt related to the Indo-Germanic one ; this is perhaps valid for all those languages which have been characterized as Ural – Altaic.

* Islam: A Very Short Introduction ( OUP, 1997, 2000 ; this has been published in several languages, including Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Romanian, Polish, Serbo-Croat, Italian, German and Spanish )