Example sentences of "[adv] but few " in BNC.
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| 1 | The plot spins endlessly but few people are going to have the stamina to remain interested in the final turns . |
| 2 | ‘ I see everyone that comes in but few of them are right , ’ says Sarah . |
| 3 | Sunday is paid overtime but few can afford to take time off . |
| 4 | Our prisoners are kept safe in the bilboes you were prescient to despatch , and I would have had this Dulay hanged but that he might in death prove a beacon to this same rabble and draw them on to greater reprisals against us , and we are still but few in number . |
| 5 | Even with the present set-up , their seemed reasonable recruitment figures overall but few stayed the course to reach the upper levels of racing achievement creating what was described as ‘ a meatless sandwich . ’ |