Sentence examples for very few compared from inspiring English sources

"Very few, compared to the tens of thousands out there".

"But the slots available to young people, although no longer zero, are still very few compared to the United States.

Other women librettists of recent decades have included Louise Welsh; Sally O'Reilly, Alice Goodman; Lavinia Greenlaw; Meredith Oakes; Amanda Holden; and Zoe Strachan – a very few compared with the endless tides of operatic men.

Many studies compared backward masking performance of patients and controls, very few compared relatives and controls, and none determined masking performance of patients, relatives and healthy controls altogether.

Data on the cytotoxic assessments of herbs are very few compared with the huge number of plants acclaimed to have therapeutic values [ 11, 12].

The overlaps of gene signatures derived from different data sets of the same disease are generally very few compared to the total number of signature genes [ 14], while stable gene signatures are crucial to the robustness of predictors [ 15].

Very few compare populations such as ethnic groups within one country [ 29, 30] or caregivers from very different geographical areas or levels of development [ 31].

However, pairwise comparisons of each of the six other strains compared with NCTC10247 showed it has lost very few genes compared with any of the strains, and in fact, NCTC10229 had no unique genes relative to NCTC10247.

Moreover, querying P. falciparum genes involved in cell cycle regulation using the Spellman data set [ 22] that directly deals with this question, gave more results than using the Gasch data set [ 21], a compendium of 176 stress conditions, which gave no results at all when compared to the Bozdech data set, and very few when compared to the Le Roch data set.

"It's still very few people, compared to the rest of the world," said Ms. Spíndola.

"You know, my bedpost really has very few notches compared with other actors of my erm, erm, pedigree.