Example sentences of "[verb] with few " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eva 's knowledge of mathematics meant she could handle the budget at Usher with few problems — apart from the usual one of there never being enough money to do all that needed to be done . |
| 2 | The surrounding volcanic cones are gently sloping with few gullies to the south , but increasingly steep and heavily gullied towards the north . |
| 3 | The old Gesamtausgabe ( 1877–1910 ) used with few exceptions only dots , and so did all the numerous editions derived from it . |
| 4 | 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 ) . |
| 5 | It is a seeking rather than a finding , and it ends with few certitudes . |
| 6 | Much of the structure survives with few alterations in its appearance since then . |
| 7 | King comments on the effects in Kenya ; his remarks would apply with few local variants to nearly all the countries visited in our survey : |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Those early days , when he shared a hovel with Linder and Ian Devine , were spent with few friends and ‘ How Soon Is Now ’ , an indication that his personal situation had n't improved with success , was hardly the typical Top Of The Pops sentiment of the day . |
| 10 | They arrive with few belongings , haunted by events left behind . |
| 11 | Yet he started with few political debts , and seemed to offer Alabamians a chance to become part of that shining land , the New South . |
| 12 | Those from an unskilled manual working class background left with few or no qualifications and emerged into manual jobs with a ‘ careerless ’ orientation . |
| 13 | When he died , after their long absences abroad , she was left with few friends in England . |
| 14 | They are constructed with few weaknesses and have a sound , strong constitution . |
| 15 | The inhabitants of Northern Nigeria , however , though coming close to this standard , had with few exceptions to be cured of a certain lack of forthrightness . |
| 16 | They provided many of the resources for the celebrations and allowed the students to proceed as they wished with few officials presiding over events . |