Example sentences of "[prep] few [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In England and Wales we are singularly placed to appreciate the relationship of scenery and structure , for few other parts of the earth 's surface show in a similar small area so great a diversity of rock types and of landscape features : " Britain is a world by itself " ; its mountains are not high , nor its rivers long , but within a few hundred miles of travel from east to west one may see more varieties of scenery than are to be found in many bigger countries . |
| 2 | Another important question is whether the UK government will bring the existing financial thresholds above which an item requires a licence in line with the EC thresholds , which are slightly more liberal for a wide range of items , although stricter for few significant categories , such as prints and drawings . |
| 3 | Wilson was almost on his own , confidently predicting the success of a strike in which the leaders of few other unions believed . |
| 4 | The revenues from North sea oil and privatisations helped this Government to restore public finances to the kind of good shape that those of few other countries are in . |
| 5 | Derek 's are mainly , there 's a sort of few new ones but |
| 6 | Ruth could think of few worse fates , but her stomach lurched at the thought of leaving Millfield . |
| 7 | The glass cone at Lemington , although incomplete , is one of few such survivals in Britain , and particularly in the region where the Venerable Bede tells us that French glassmakers were brought over to teach the ‘ English nation their handicraft ’ , which had been lost here after the departure of the Romans . |
| 8 | In a game of few scoring opportunities , Coventry lacked the power and precision revealed by Campbell in the 29th minute after he ran on to Limpar 's lobbed pass . |
| 9 | But in a game of few clear openings , Gunn coped well and the absence of the Sudbury 'keeper , who took two heavy knocks in the opening exchanges , made little material difference to the pattern of the game . |
| 10 | But the garrison , distressed by the revelation that Dr McNab had actually written a description in his diary of his own wife 's death by cholera , feared that in the case of Dr McNab even the caricature of a Scot might be mild in comparison with the truth ; they could think of few less tantalizing prospects than that their deaths should become medical statistics . |
| 11 | The hosts , and what a superbly organised lot they were , with the help of few French travellers , gave a good account of themselves , notably against the tiring Irish . |
| 12 | His picture of the democratic tyranny of Athenion , the Aristotelian who led the anti-Roman movement in Athens in 87 , is the most hostile image of a popular leader in Greek literature — and I know of few comparable portraits in other literatures ( fr. 36 Jacoby ) . |
| 13 | The severity of oesophagitis was classified into five categories according to Savary 's criteria : ( a ) Grade 0 : absence of oesophageal injury ; ( b ) Grade I : presence of few isolated erosions ; ( c ) Grade II : presence of multiple longitudinal or confluent erosions ; ( d ) Grade III : presence of Barrett 's oesophagus or columnar lined distal oesophagus , diagnosed by endoscopy when the squamous columnar mucosal function was seen 3 cm or more proximal to the endoscopic location of the lower oesophageal sphincter . |
| 14 | But it may be that the things they have been through these past few hundred years have exaggerated some of their original characteristics . |
| 15 | Hazard research , like few other GIS application areas , is not only stretching the present technology to its limits but is a quite remarkable focus of international effort into several important research-related areas such as expert systems and simulation studies . |
| 16 | His chest was sleekly well muscled , with few dark hairs to ruffle its warm , silky perfection , and she enjoyed running the palms of her hands over it , teasing his own nipples into hardness . |
| 17 | Some would argue that his voice is unique and denies easy classification ; he is ‘ a traditionalist with few traditional beliefs , an ‘ idealist ’ who is more sceptical than many positivists , a lover of liberty who repudiates liberalism , an individualist who prefers Hegel to Locke' . |
| 18 | He takes you round the block and back , does Eno , with few comforting reference points , although I sense echoes of early YMO and Yello lurking behind closed doors . |
| 19 | Traditionally , management-staff relations in local government have been relatively harmonious with few serious disputes . |
| 20 | This second bacterial pattern was only seen associated with a degenerated epithelium presenting with few apical mucoid granules , fewer microvilli , cytoplasmic vacuolisations , and absence of mucus layer , and it was found in all the ultrastructural sections in which the second or third pattern of contact with gastric epithelium was present ( sections from biopsy specimens of 31 patients ) . |
| 21 | Buoncamino , the Sun went on to warn its potential customers , is ‘ a sinister survivor of the mediaeval past with few modern facilities … the Sardinians treat their criminals ruthlessly — and there will be no relaxation of their hard regime for the English . ’ |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Their elongated stems with few small leaves strive upwards until they find sufficient light , and this can be seen when sun-loving species are planted in shady parts of the garden . |
| 24 | The system uses a gas burner to heat the spraying sheet , thereby changing the way in which the drops are formed and producing a narrow drop-size spectrum , with few small particles . |
| 25 | Some of the clergy were less fortunate , becoming victims of persecution by Puritan divines with few wider sympathies ; predominant among the latter was Francis Cheynell , a man instrumental in depriving a number of the cathedral and rural clergy . |
| 26 | This is very narrow , more akin to a country lane , with few passing places , but is relatively traffic free . |
| 27 | Again there are two broad categories : either the jaws appear longer than wide with many oral papillae and large open tentacle pores or the jaw appears as broad as long with few oral papillae and small tentacle pores . |
| 28 | Classes on child care , personal health and beauty or African music are currently only likely to be options for those with few alternative examination subjects . |
| 29 | Scotch Whisky provides 15,000 jobs , many in rural areas with few alternative opportunities . |
| 30 | An orphan boy with few material advantages , he was largely self-taught , undeterred by difficulties , ever alert for information , and he kept his memory in full activity . |