The phrase "a very few examples" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when you want to emphasize that there are only a small number of examples being referred to.
Example: "In this report, I will provide a very few examples to illustrate my point."
Alternatives: "a handful of examples" or "a small number of examples".
In our cities, the funds have – to name a very few examples – stumped up £50m for Birmingham's International Convention Centre and Symphony Hall and £25m for its Thinktank museum and City University.
Unlike supramolecular sheets there are a very few examples of peptide sub-units that can be used to construct supramolecular helical architectures using the backbone hydrogen bonding functionalities of peptides.
Fritz Zwicky defined additional supernovae types, although based on a very few examples that didn't cleanly fit the parameters for a type I or type II supernova.
On printed and minted currency, we find only a very few examples of women achieving this place of honor and vicarious immortality, and even far fewer people of color of any gender.
EF1% is a stringent figure of merit and yet, in all but a very few examples, MRC-VLS provided an early recognition that was better than or equal to most SRC runs.
Despite this, de novo short read assembly of eukaryotic transcriptome sequence has been largely confined to 454-based sequencing efforts e.g. [8] [10], with only a very few examples of de novo transcriptome sequencing using the Illumina platform occurring in the literature (e.g. Pachycladon [11]; Chinese Hamster Ovary Cell [12]; Whitefly [13]).
Up to date, the design of highly selective probes for Cys, Hcy, and GSH is still a challenge and very few examples have been reported so far.
Up to date, the design of highly selective and fast response probes for Cys, Hcy, and GSH is still a challenge and very few examples have been reported so far.
Moreover, lips may be one of the very few examples for a 'magic trait' [ 58]-a trait that combines disruptive natural selection and assortative mating and that also (sensu [ 59]) might lead to speciation in sympatry.
By the time he stopped making entries, seven months later, he had inadvertently created a psychological document of which very few examples are known.
Examples of research priority setting processes in the international literature include a range of methods, but very few examples of the impact and influence on subsequent research activity and services.
