Sentence examples for a pair of very from inspiring English sources

From about 1760 onward, sperm whales were rendered in "try-works"—a pair of very large cast-iron pots (try-pots) on a water-filled brick structure approximately two by three metres situated near the forward hatch.

They just happen to be a pair of very expensive perfect copies.

Mark Morris, one of the world's hottest choreographers, marches into class wearing a pair of very old and floppy shorts.

When she had done this, he said, "Put these on," and handed her a pair of very high-heeled shoes.

A pair of very large white-tailed eagles swooped in and built their nest in an improbably small tree.

The head bears a pair of very short antennae and on each side a cluster of minute simple eyes (stemmata).

To direct these plays, the school brought over from Paris a pair of very old Moscow Art Theatre actors who had been stranded there decades earlier.

In the 1958 movie version of "South Pacific," Mitzi Gaynor's Nellie Forbush appears in a pair of very short shorts and a skimpy shirt.

Amal Clooney's take on white – a pair of very Grace Kelly gloves – was a far more subtle use of the colour, but it had a similar effect.

All she has is a pair of obviously very old, very ornate scissors, that the mayor was supposed to have given LBL's great-grandfather for his years of service.

I don't know what the neuroscience has to say about this, but I've found a pair of antidotes, very old school, for my shrinking attention span.