Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] few " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why do you think so few people in your kind of position have actually stuck their heads above the parapet and cried ‘ No ’ ? |
| 2 | Though this must be one of the main reasons why Germany has received so few Nobel prizes since the war , nothing more can be done about it . |
| 3 | One explanation is that the initial infection , acquired from the ingestion of overwintered larvae in May , involves so few worms that neither clinical signs nor immunity is produced ; however , sufficient numbers of larvae are seeded on to the pasture so that by July the numbers of L3 on pasture are sufficient to produce clinical disease . |
| 4 | As one of the best records of 1990 it was actually a lucky escape that it sold so few copies , missed Top Of The Pops , slipped the chance of a slot on youth TV and lost the chase for Sunday newspaper publicity . |
| 5 | Next to the court was Mr. Stone 's Grocery Shop which never seemed to do much trade — it opened late and closed early — the stock was limited so few people patronised it . |
| 6 | FOR A town of such ancient importance , Stamford has remarkably few ghost traditions . |
| 7 | Because of the special circumstances of the Western Isles , we were able to find rather few useful comparisons with the rural development problems and approaches in other parts of the world . |
| 8 | He has so few doubts , and his objectives are so suspect . |
| 9 | He has so few doubts , and his objectives are so suspect . |
| 10 | I wonder if it is because she has so few of her own . |
| 11 | Unlike its generalised cousin , PKZIP , it has so few command line switches you can actually remember them all . |
| 12 | So how come so few of the 141 organisations which have joined Opportunity 2000 , the campaign to improve the balance of men and women in the work-force , are accountants ? |
| 13 | Speech processing is so complex and so little understood that we want as few assumptions built into the development architecture as possible . |
| 14 | But at a time when tunes from bourgeois sources were increasingly popular and when traditional , so called ‘ folk ’ tunes were in decline , certainly in the music hall , Corvan used comparatively few of the former and actively retained many of the latter . |
| 15 | In terms of expectations of the ‘ good ’ pupil , I found surprisingly few sex differences . |
| 16 | The latter finding may be a matter of sampling error , since a number of the 14 surveys reported relatively few women in those categories . |
| 17 | Scotland , compared to England and Wales , has relatively few medieval churches but , precisely because so many were destroyed at the time of the Reformation , Scotland is rich in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century ecclesiastical architecture . |
| 18 | The accounting system has relatively few users — about five in London , 10 in New York and two in Hong Kong . |
| 19 | The Aplysia nervous system contains relatively few nerve cells , but amongst them are some which are rather large . |
| 20 | It concluded that GPs in Britain referred relatively few patients to hospitals , handling many cases themselves . |
| 21 | Gas between the galaxies contains too few baryons to account for all the apparent mass but too many to be consistent with the simplest Big Bang models . |
| 22 | Professor James believes that the average British diet is too rich in fat , saturated fat , sugar and salt , contains too few starchy foods , such as cereals and bread , and not enough fruit and vegetables . |
| 23 | Former England captain Chris Cowdrey was more critical , saying : ‘ Keith Fletcher said before the tour that he thought India posed very few problems . |
| 24 | Others feel that Freud used too few subjects to test his theories . |
| 25 | Some places on Earth , such as deserts , harbour very few species of living things , and the total weight of creatures , the biomass , is also low . |
| 26 | With such charm and grace does he distribute his roses among them that it is easy to forgive him for having — alas ! — one rose too few . |
| 27 | Some of these have been tested by Dr John Hunter of Addenbrooke 's Hospital , who found very few live bacteria in them , making them less useful than live yoghurt . |
| 28 | Among the Arapesh , she found very few ‘ natural differences ’ in men 's and women 's behaviour , with neither sex exhibiting aggression : women did the heavy carrying ( because of their supposedly strong foreheads ) , and the men lay with their wives during and after childbirth , ‘ sharing ’ the pain and strain . |
| 29 | In over 50 hours of recorded conversational speech , Brown , Currie and Kenworthy ( 1980 ) found very few examples of passives , it-clefts or wh-clefts . |
| 30 | I have recovered marked N. lapillus within 30 cm of the release site after a year whilst Palmer ( 1984 ) found very few N. emarginata to move more than 10 m in the same time . |