Example sentences of "[be] [adj] few " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have never seen England play better than they did against Ireland and I 'm sure few other people would argue about that . |
| 2 | While there have been precious few literary models for black male writers to follow lately , there has been a boom in black women 's writing , particularly in the States , with the success of Alice Walker , Toni Morrison and now Terry Macmillan . |
| 3 | Many people write to the group and consider themselves ‘ friends ’ but Gedge himself concedes that there are precious few people with whom he is genuinely close . |
| 4 | Julian Driver , technical director of Vickers Laboratories , which has introduced this restriction , explained that ‘ it must be used in a reaction which will result in a non-volatile product — and there are precious few of those ’ . |
| 5 | But there are precious few strikers available in this country . ’ |
| 6 | There are precious few surviving landscapes managed principally for nature — but every county has its gems . |
| 7 | All I ask is that you should bear in mind that in an agency with 25 or 30 people you are unlikely to find all the jobs described : indeed , you are quite likely not to find them all in an agency with 500 people , and there are precious few of those in Europe , and not many in the USA . |
| 8 | I 've racked my brains , but at my age there are precious few left to rack . |
| 9 | It has been condemned from all sides ; there is virtually no advocate for it outside Government and there are precious few inside . |
| 10 | When you find a free house , and there are precious few of them in this part of the world , they are usually supported in a big way financially by a brewer . |
| 11 | It was not a sudden transformation , but by the late eighties there were precious few figures prominent in political life who were anything other than careerists . |
| 12 | She had purposely made it difficult and she knew that there were precious few five-year-olds around who would be able to manage it . |
| 13 | There were precious few lorries about either . |