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The phrase "a combination of very" is not correct and does not convey a clear meaning in written English.
It may be used in contexts where you want to describe something that is made up of multiple elements, but "very" typically does not function as a noun or an element to be combined.
Example: "The recipe is a combination of very sweet and very sour flavors."
Alternatives: "a mix of highly" or "a blend of extremely".
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Leonard's songs were a combination of very real details and a sense of mystery, like prayers or spells".
This is because of a combination of very low interest rates, a strengthening housing market and significant domestic energy discoveries".
They are a combination of very wealthy and hardworking professionals, and tend to spend less time consuming traditional marketing materials than other customers.
Using a combination of very thin, sans-serif typefaces, he printed the name in a taupe-y gray, making it seem a little blurry.
The Mermaid salad was a combination of very fresh organic lettuces and endive with abundant blue cheese and a balsamic vinaigrette.
"It's a combination of very good reception to the WorldCom deal and a fairly good Treasury 10-year note auction that's helping the market do better," said Gemma Wright, senior market strategist at the Barclays Capital Group.
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The designed processors use a combination of very-long instruction-word (VLIW), single-instruction multiple-data (SIMD), and complex custom DSP-like operations in order to provide an area- and energy-efficient and high-performance execution of the program parts assigned to the processor node.
The weather was a combination of extremes — very warm, very cool, very rainy, very dry — that gave some winemakers trouble but that in the end resulted in opulent, full-bodied rieslings with plenty of tropical fruit.
"She was a combination of Charlie Rose and Barbara Walters, very well read, very well prepared".
He won't go into its cause much – only that it was a "very routine" test that fell victim to "a combination of some very unusual things".
Izzet Mergen, the 31-year-old sixth grade band teacher, said the music program's success was a result of "a combination of a very sympathetic administrator, teachers who really care about the students and devoted students and parents who show great interest".
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