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very

Much; quite. Using very makes the adjective or adverb stronger. He was very young.

very

Exact. This man is the very one for the job.

very

(= really, real, rattling) used as intensifiers; 'real' is sometimes used informally for 'really'; 'rattling' is informal she was very gifted he played very well a really enjoyable evening I'm real sorry about it a rattling good yarn precisely as stated the very center of town (= identical, selfsame) being the exact same one; not any other this is the identical room we stayed in before the themes of his stories are one and the same saw the selfsame quotation in two newspapers on this very spot the very thing he said yesterday the very man I want to see precisely so on the very next page he expected the very opposite

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Simple sentences

My mom doesn't speak English very well.
Thank you very much!
This knife was very useful to me.
We had a very good time last night.
I was very scared of snakes.
Peter looks very young.
Tom runs very fast.
A very pleasant young woman waited on me in the department store.
They were very tired, hungry, and thirsty that night.
It was very sultry that night.
She knew herself that it would be very difficult to carry out the mission.
Your offer is very attractive, but we will have to think about it.
My mother doesn't speak English very well.
The Germans are very crafty.
Thank you very much.
I like it very much.
He's very sexy.
It is very hot today.
It's very hot today.
He plays the piano very well.
I find foreign languages very interesting.
I like my job very much.
The rooms in this hotel are really very bad at muffling sounds. I can hear my neighbor chewing his gum!
It's very frustrating to try to find your glasses when you can't see anything without glasses.
Italy is a very beautiful country.

Movie subtitles

And you're all very smart!
You flew over us several times, You know very well where we are.
You're being very careless about this.
At that time. for us 10 year olds, the world appeared to be a very sad place.
Dick Whittington had to watch where he put his feet, because the streets of his city were paved with something very different from gold.
What they're building here in Nanjing is a fuII-scaIe replica of one of the treasure ships of admiral Zheng He - the most famous sailor in Chinese history, the man who very nearly turned the middle Kingdom into a global empire.
How very different it would be for the altogether more modest voyages about to be undertaken by a remarkable man from the tiny little European kingdom of Portugal.
King manuel's orders to Vasco da Gama tell us something very important about the overseas spread of Western civilization.
It's just one long - very long - celebration of local autonomy.
OutwardIy it was very impressive, but on the inside it was highly fragile.
I shall bury the golden plates, father, and perhaps one day someone very special will find them.
That was very good indeed!
He uh ju-, well, he has a very active imagination.
You must be very careful around here.
Um. Thank you very much.
That they must be very far away.
I am sitting next to a photographic telescope very similar to the one used by David Gill.
Within the astronomical community that was a very important discovery: the fact that there was regularity in something astronomers had always considered to be chaotic!
It became clear that the spiral nebulae must be very tar away way beyond the borders of the Kapteyn Universe.
Early in 1944 something happened that we found very special.
Henk came back after a few months with a very intriguing story.
But if it were true, if that emission really existed, it would be a very powerful tool to study the Galaxy.
The receiver changed frequency very slowly over a one or two hour period.
Very similar to what we knew from extragalactic spiral nebulae.
Those are the Pereire brothers, very rich bankers.
As for you, Hubert, you'll handle the cholera epidemic, which has hit our troops very hard.
They know very special tricks.
Nick wouldn't like it very much.
Frankie keeps making me do it, and every time I do it, it feels worse, and plus, I'm not a very good liar.
Today, a very stinky rain will come down on the heads of Frankie and his crew.
He is very modest.
And I have a very active imagination.
Yes, youssef imagines many very weird things.
I want you to tell the girls that I love them both very much.
That's their job, and they do that very well, but Scott can easily look past that and still be in love with Allison.
She's a werewolf hunter, and Scott's a werewolf now, so they have to be very secretive with their love.
He's just. he's a very dangerous man because he doesn't really have a code that he abides by.
Scott does feel very protective over Isaac, Erica, and Boyd 'cause he can really relate with them.
The Kanima is a. it's actually a very sad, sympathetic creature.
Derek's going to have to deal with very heavily in season three.
How about maybe he's playing this game that he's a very nice guy, everybody trusts him, just to win the game?

News and current affairs

Yet 2008-2009, like 1989, may very well correspond to an epochal change, whose unfolding consequences will be felt for decades.
One is that they are very costly; or, more accurately, the price charged for them is very high, though the cost of producing them is but a fraction of that amount.
For a very low cash outlay - and perhaps none at all on balance - we could conserve nature and thus protect the basis of our own lives and livelihoods.
Politicians don't listen very well to individual scientists, but they are forced to listen when hundreds of scientists speak with a united voice.
This challenge, however, is very complex because deleveraging and rebalancing cannot be completed overnight.
The answer is: very poor.
It would seem not, as it is also true that very trusting people also have lower incomes than the average.
Scientists appear to know the mechanism that generates weather, even if it is inherently difficult to extrapolate very far.
But greater transparency and a more systematic independent evaluation of government policies could be a very helpful step towards solving the perpetual conundrum of outsized deficits.
The Internet's creators, part of a small, enclosed community, were very comfortable with an open system in which security was not a primary concern.
But, with some three billion or so users on the Web nowadays, that very openness has become a serious vulnerability; indeed, it is endangering the vast economic opportunities that the Internet has opened for the world.
The financial sector requires tougher regulation, strengthened supervision, and internationally consistent resolution mechanisms to address the problems posed by very large, global institutions that are considered too big (or too complex) to fail.
After the ensuing financial thunderstorm died down, the sun would come out again very quickly.
Even so, the fact that very high inflation is possible does not make it probable, so one should be cautious in arguing that higher gold prices are being driven by inflation expectations.
Most economic research suggests that gold prices are very difficult to predict over the short to medium term, with the odds of gains and losses being roughly in balance.
But, despite gold's heightened allure in the wake of an extraordinary run-up in its price, it remains a very risky bet for most of us.
So I had vague thoughts that I might go into space sometime in 2011 - the year that Google co-founder Sergey Brin is (very) tentatively slated to go.
As the boom turned to bust, the losses threatened to overwhelm the capacity of the Spanish state, and the problem became European, because it threatened the very survival of the euro.
Putting the ECB in charge should also help to stop the creeping disintegration process, which is not publicly visible, but is very real nonetheless.
Most people in the US know that if you talk back to the police, they will get nasty very fast.
There was no question of violence. There were just very raw nerves and hypersensitivity to hints of disrespect, on the part of the professor, and of the cop.
Older French citizens don't find the public spectacle of their leader in love very amusing.
There were just very raw nerves and hypersensitivity to hints of disrespect, on the part of the professor, and of the cop.
So, as rumors fly of secret marriage ceremonies either already concluded or in the works, could the trouble brewing in India over the French president's very public love life be behind the rush to have the couple legally wed?
But, in a currency union with huge differences in income and development levels, the short term can stretch out for a very long time.
In the process, conspiracy theories are pulled from the margins of public discourse, where they were generally consigned in the past, and sometimes into the very heart of politics.
It had no choice: with financial turmoil threatening to spread from small countries like Greece and Ireland to large ones like Italy and Spain, the euro's very survival was in growing jeopardy.

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