The phrase "a very hollow" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something that has a significant emptiness or lack of substance, whether literally or metaphorically.
Example: "The argument he presented was a very hollow attempt to justify his actions."
Alternatives: "a deeply empty" or "a profoundly vacant".
It's a very hollow measure of what you're all about.
"It is a very hollow victory for Khan," he said.
"Gerry's a very hollow man," Brendan Hughes's brother Terry said, before adding, "But then maybe that's politics".
"It was a very hollow speech, empty and irresponsible," said Minoru Morita, an author and political commentator.
"And now having achieved it realized, 'Oh wow, it isn't actually that valuable.' Of course I enjoy giving interviews or having money or staying in nice hotels and these things, but ultimately it's a very hollow, brittle experience if not nourished and underscored by something valuable".
The headline target to halve global poverty by 2015 may well be met, but this could be a very hollow achievement if high food prices, conflicts over land access and insufficient rural development conspire to leave a stubbornly high number of people – now close to 1 billion – mired in food poverty.
Once the narcotic napalm cleared, Be Here Now's emperor's clothes were revealed: a very loud, very long, very hollow album recorded by a band so fogged in a cloud of cocaine that in the studio everything was very much turned up to 11 (literally, Noel later acknowledged).
As for the French place in the world, and how the E.U. can serve France as an amplifier, a traditional presidential election leitmotif, the debt crisis makes expectations of a multipolar world, with Europe as a powerful pillar, seem very hollow.
The through-the-thickness variations of Young's moduli obtained with and without considering the variation of Poisson's ratio are very close to each other for a moderately thick hollow cylinder but are quite different in a very thick hollow cylinder.
A catheter is a very long hollow tube, sort of like garden hose, but much thinner and not made of the same material.
They were made of a very lightweight, hollow, aluminum tubing that was both very strong -- so actors could dance on them, and very light -- so they could be easily moved.
