Example sentences of "[prep] few [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | I knew almost no one , and because of the language barrier I could speak freely with few people . |
| 3 | Also , as it is late with few people around , I see the dangers to others of my speeding as being less . |
| 4 | The US Federal Trade Commission 's investigation of Microsoft Corp has had an air of unreality about it , with few people imagining that it will come to anything very much or lead to any significant change in the market , but now that the thing may be coming to a climax , what are the possible outcomes ? |
| 5 | The Marischal College has an attractive staircase , and that curious atmosphere of university colleges — a busy air , yet with few people in evidence . |
| 6 | He had timed their arrival for early evening with few people around . |
| 7 | Neward Dyke hard with few fish apart from the A46 bridge and Red Bridge section . |
| 8 | That commodities such as simple sardine or anchovy butter which we had hitherto regarded as sandwich fillings , egg dishes which belonged to the breakfast table , the bed-sitting room or the night club , and little hot dishes which were ordinary English family supper savouries were valuable resources which could be quite differently deployed and offered as party dishes were ideas which had occurred to few people in pre-Boulestin days : |
| 9 | A superficial illustration of this view would be that while the collapse of the UK 's steel industry , car industry and others at the end of the 1970s and early 1980s affected the whole economic landscape of the UK , generating mass unemployment in the north , the midlands and in all inner cities , the Stock Market crash in the international financial crisis of October 1987 had an impact on few people . |
| 10 | In the notion of sameness there are ambiguities and ambivalences only dimly noticed by few people at the time . |
| 11 | The street of the storytellers in Peshawar , Pakistan ; a desert island in the Indian Ocean , the magnificent Iguazu Falls in Argentina , the Potala in Tibet and the gigantic statues of Easter Island had , until recently , been seen by few people other than the local population , explorers , archaeologists or anthropologists , yet they are all included in the pages of current travel brochures . |