Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] few " in BNC.
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| 31 | Another advantage of small chips with few address lines is that each cell of a chip only stores a very crude fragment of knowledge about the image on the retina . |
| 32 | Now the areas of sands and gravels have dry soils with few chemicals for crops . |
| 33 | for example , the government , via State forestry Services and the federal Department of Forestry , controls and implements regeneration and afforestation schemes but logging is transacted via the private sector with few enforceable controls . |
| 34 | Have you done it in the last sort of few weeks ? |
| 35 | I ha I had sort of few , few words with him this morning . |
| 36 | Derek 's are mainly , there 's a sort of few new ones but |
| 37 | An appropriate name for a drama group of few words but plenty of action . |
| 38 | Whatever Aachen may have been in the past , it has settled down now to being a prosperous commercial town with few pretensions . |
| 39 | It is an Accrington brick-built town with few pretensions and it no doubt contributed to saving Gedge from a terminal dose of wetness . |
| 40 | He was educated at King William 's College , Isle of Man , described by his brother A. E. Lynam as ‘ a romantic place in those days with few of the traditions or restrictions of the modern public school ’ . |
| 41 | The other is dominated by workers with few skills , other than their willingness to work the hours required by their employers . |
| 42 | He had timed their arrival for early evening with few people around . |
| 43 | And now we are to wait for the next ethnic war to intervene to salve our pitifully insensitive consciences and our failure to shape and conduct an effective policy : a neat one , no complications , allowing intervention with few , possibly no , losses . |
| 44 | The fear was that Britain 's population would decline rapidly , that it would be dominated by an aged population with few people of working age coupled with a rapidly decreasing birth rate . |
| 45 | Both the French government and French farming unions traditionally favoured linking farm incomes mainly to prices rather than to " social handouts " ( although , according to the Financial Times of May 22 , there was in late 1991 " a growing realization by farming leaders that some kind of social help was needed to enable an ageing farming population with few successors to retire peacefully " ) . |
| 46 | This was a shadowy body with few supporters but at least it represented definite opposition to the Japanese presence . |
| 47 | THIS year 's Oscar race is the closest for years with few clear favourites in any category . |
| 48 | The sandhills of Squires Gate Lane with few signs of civilisation , although the scrolled bracket poles lend a touch of elegance . |
| 49 | Individuals lower down the organisation may be given little responsibility with few decisions delegated down the organisation to them . |
| 50 | The two other big diversified computer companies are Unisys Corp at $8,400m or so , and NCR Corp at $7,100m — only the same size as Apple Computer Inc , a pure personal computer play with few designs on the data centre — and if AT&T Co is really serious about making it big in the computer industry , it will soon have to start thinking of buying NCR a present — and Unisys begins to look tempting now that James Unruh has finally got the company onto an even keel and Unisys ' own mainframe millstones under control . |
| 51 | Hedges with few shrub species , wire fences , or even no features at all , can all mark the edge of early documented parishes . |
| 52 | Secondly , this transfer punishes local authorities with few residential care homes and cuts off money for future expansion . |
| 53 | Nevertheless , as an oral drug with few side effects , it may find a role in maintenance suppression in patients with chronic hepatitis C virus infection . |
| 54 | Groups with few functions of this kind ( such as technicians , scientists , teachers or many professionals ) are distinguished as potential allies of the working class in promoting socialism . |
| 55 | The school kitchen consistently sustained heavy losses and was locked into an unhappy spiral of few pupils — low income — small choice — few pupils . |
| 56 | Traditionally , psychiatric hospitals have worked a two-shift system by day with few meal breaks and with a limited overlap in the middle , whereas acute hospitals tend to provide unpaid meal breaks and large overlap between the morning and afternoon shifts . |
| 57 | While some checklists may simply identify a list of ‘ useful linguistic skills ’ which may serve as a selection menu with few constraints on the sequence in which separate items are taught , those which are based on a developmental sequence place strong constraints on the selection of teaching objectives . |
| 58 | Macao 's economy has weathered the turmoil in China with few signs of damage . |
| 59 | receiving secondary education was checked by the presence of a divisive system of private education with few parallels in other countries . |
| 60 | The genus as a whole shares its virtuous qualities with few others in the marine aquarium hobby . |