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`` 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.
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Very few fried foods are used and the use of salt and pepper is discouraged.
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.
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Very little has survived of a remarkable craft which undoubtedly paid for many of the old jars, plates, and beads still decorating the longhouses or wives of better-off Bornean pagans many generations later.
Very and says
Very occasionally, Franquin stepped over the mark, as in an uncharacteristically angry strip where Gaston uses a toy Messerschmitt plane to strafe the whole office in protest at their ( real life ) appearance in the magazine's modelling column ( while building the model, he says: “… and now, the swastikas.
Very careful study appears in all he says and
Very few actually believe this story to be true though many, like Viktor Krum, believe the sign of the Deathly Hallows to be the mark of Dark wizard Gellert Grindelwald, as Krum says it had been carved into a wall at his school, Durmstrang, by Grindelwald himself ( Grindelwald attended Durmstrang as a child until he was expelled for use of Dark magic ).
* The Simpsons – In the 9th season episode " Bart Star ," Joe Namath addresses the camera at the end of the show, in a manner parodying many Very Special Episodes, to " talk seriously about the problem of vapor lock ," which he says is the " third most common cause of engine stalling.
Jonathan Culler in his book Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction says:
Doug tells her " Tess, get in the goddamn chair " and, after a brief pause, Tess complies, pats Doug's hand and says " Very good, Douglas.
In WrestleCrap: The Very Worst of Pro Wrestling, RD Reynolds says of the match, " That was that.
In the essay titled " Your Very Good Health ," Thomas says:
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# Very difficult to train: Bodhisattvas who attain this bhūmi strive to help sentient beings attain maturity, and do not become emotionally involved when such beings respond negatively, both of which are difficult to do.
Very often, no actual mystery even existed: the books simply revolved around justice being served to those who deserved harsh treatment, which was described in explicit detail.
The oratorio, called Not the Messiah ( He's a Very Naughty Boy ), was commissioned to be part of the festival called Luminato in Toronto, Ontario, in June 2007, and was written / scored by Idle and John Du Prez, who also worked with Idle on Spamalot.
This motivated Polygram ( who now owned the Verve / MGM label archives ) to re-release the song to Top 40 radio where it became a major hit for a second time ( their second UK # 1 ) and a greatest hits CD collection called The Very Best of The Righteous Brothers ... Unchained Melody.
Very little is known about the full power of these satellites, as governments who operate them usually keep information pertaining to their reconnaissance satellites classified.
Very rarely, students who do not qualify for regular admission are " admitted by exception.
The Very Reverend James Parks Morton, who became dean of the cathedral in 1972, fostered projects to enable it to become " a holy place for the whole city " and encouraged a revival in the construction of the Cathedral.
Judge who rules for L. A. Not Very Smart Cookie ".
* Type 3: Very early readers who are not on the autism spectrum though there are some “ autistic-like ” traits and behaviours which gradually fade as the child gets older.
Very few actual dwarf characters appear in the Poetic Edda and Prose Edda and have quite diverse roles: murderous creators of the mead of poetry, ' reluctant donors ' of important artifacts with magical qualities, or sexual predators who lust after goddesses.
* A Very Short Book: Sometimes the last sketch of an episode, it featured a well-known nursery rhyme or famous story read by a cast member who turned the pages of a book with moving pictures.
Very few additions were made by the later Masoretes, styled in the 13th and 14th centuries Naḳdanim, who revised the works of the copyists, added the vowels and accents ( generally in fainter ink and with a finer pen ) and frequently the Masorah.
The head of the cathedral is the dean, currently the Very Reverend Robert Willis, who is assisted by a chapter of 24 canons, four of whom are residentiary, the others being honorary appointments of senior clergy in the diocese.
Very little enthusiasm was shown in the matter by the people, who preferred the distribution of doles in the city to the prospect of distant allotments.
Very early on, Iberian society was composed of Muslims who were at first ethnically Near East Muslims.
Very little cave-specific study was undertaken prior to the work of Édouard-Alfred Martel ( 1859-1938 ), the ' father of modern speleology ', who through his extensive and well-publicised cave explorations introduced in France the concept of speleology as a distinct area of study.
Durst began to take an interest in directing, and directed a music video for Limp Bizkit's single " Faith " in promotion for its appearance in the film Very Bad Things, but was unsatisfied with it, and directed a second video which paid tribute to tourmates like Primus, Deftones and Mötley Crüe, who appeared in the video.
Very few students in U. S. universities who have a foreign language as a major manage to reach something called " minimum professional proficiency ".
The most recent dean of the cathedral was the Very Reverend Samuel T. Lloyd III, who took office on April 23, 2005 ; he announced his retirement, effective September 18, 2011.
Very often, the story arose from the consequences of some idiotic behaviour of Ron's, who was incapable of competently carrying out any simple task, even going to the fish-and-chip shop ( when he puts his change up his nose ).
Very successful Indian missions were soon begun by the Jesuits, who were temporarily expelled as a result of a civil war in 1684 for their opposition to the enslavement of the Indians.
Very popular all over Germany also are BAP, who sing in the hard-to-understand dialect of their hometown Cologne / Köln.
Very conscious of the stressful loneliness of command and of the suicide both of Captain Stokes and of his uncle Viscount Castlereagh, who had cut his own throat in 1822 while in government office, he approached Beaufort in August 1831 and asked him to find a suitable gentleman companion for the voyage.
Very few black children who were zoned for white schools showed up at their assigned campus on the first day of school, and those who did met with angry mobs outside several city elementary schools.
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