The phrase "a very seldom" is not correct in standard English usage.
The correct expression would typically be "very seldom" or "seldom" without the article "a."
Example: "I very seldom go to the movies these days."
Alternatives: "rarely" or "hardly ever."
A child very seldom wants to talk about something that's made a deep impression: it's too personal, too sacred.
What they show is something I witnessed personally, that diplomats as a class very seldom tell unpalatable truths to politicians, but rather report and reinforce what their masters want to hear, in the hope of receiving preferment.
Don't read the book first (if it's based on a book); very seldom is the movie better than the book.
Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel earlier this week compared AfD party members to Nazis, an insult very seldom used in German politics.
Years ago I would see a cougar track once in a while, really very seldom.
But are we overestimating the power of a lyrical broadside, issued well over half a century ago? "It's very seldom that a song can cut through, but a song can evoke a moment and come to signify a movement," Bragg says, citing as an example protest anthem We Shall Overcome – and, of course, This Land Is Your Land.
In life as in politics, when people have significant self-interest in the outcome of a contest, they very seldom worry about who's the most adorable competitor.
But with redwoods, "How could a tree that very seldom sexually propagates have enough genetic diversity to fight off insects that are constantly changing?" Brinegar asks.
This was a cantina that had a presence and a fullness that you very seldom find," said Irish-born artist Phil Kelly, who discovered the bar after moving to the Mexican capital in 1982.
