very many

“It felt very lonely — no one else was doing that. We looked around for allies — other pro-nuclear groups. … There just weren’t very many.”

Flynn has been tipped as a future SNP leader, but he predicted there would not be a contest to replace Swinney for “very many years”, adding that he had full confidence in the first minister.

"He’s just not serious about very many of these issues."

I don’t think there are very many.

Similarly, while among the primates, checking back has only been reported in apes and old world monkeys, there haven’t been very many studies of this in primates, and while one rare such study concluded that new world monkeys — spider monkeys and capuchins — don’t check back, in fact an individual spider monkey was observed checking back in that study, over and over.