Example sentences of "[noun sg] few [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course few people possess sufficient evidence to argue strongly for the extreme poles of the personal/institutional development issue , and it is unlikely that even Stenhouse or Hoyle would have denied that there is a middle ground which acknowledges the interaction of the system and the individual . |
| 2 | He then attacked QPR , the club who swung the vote against the deal , saying : ‘ The eventual Judas was Queens Park Rangers , a decision few people in football can comprehend . |
| 3 | She would see what he had to say as personal criticism and that was something which in his experience few women could take . |
| 4 | In addition few people believed that FDP officers could easily relinquish their former role . |
| 5 | In any case few statesmen grasped that there was a profound contradiction between the economic and the social policies being pursued by the government . |
| 6 | Hungarian-style reforms introduced , but comprehensively : markets function and managers make decisions unless planners say otherwise ( at present few decisions can be taken unless planners authorise them ) . |
| 7 | As there are at present few materials focusing on this aspect of discourse , the remainder of 8 suggests what such relevant activities might be . |
| 8 | It breeds rapidly — a single female may produce 200–300 offspring in one year — and its mass production and distribution present few difficulties , although it does not thrive everywhere , is subject to disease and predation itself and may sometimes eat the wrong prey . |
| 9 | ISS assumed that the first three years would continue with a broad curriculum and would include subjects ( such as home economics ) which at present few schools consider to be compulsory in the fourth and fifth years . |
| 10 | WITH the recession few newspaper companies are seeing dramatic increases in their revenues , rather they 're fighting hard to hold out until the economic situation improves . |
| 11 | Further , although half were involved in general inspection few advisers wanted to spend more time on it ( again senior staff were the exception ) . |
| 12 | In the heat of the action few players had time to discuss their reactions and were kept clear of the press . |
| 13 | This is a difficult question but in practice few spreadsheets need more than 1 or 2 MBytes of expanded memory . |
| 14 | This was an important step towards a national health service , though in practice few authorities did much to modernize their facilities . |
| 15 | In practice few companies have made use of the opportunity provided by the Act to start generating electricity on a substantial scale . |
| 16 | In practice few UPS bands are quite so starkly simple ; we usually see the vestiges of a progression . |
| 17 | In practice few debtors went out , but the settlers were helped liberally with private and public funds administered by the charitable trust created to run the colony . |
| 18 | Such were the army , in which both George I and George II took a strong personal interest , and foreign policy , about which as a rule few ministers knew or cared very much . |
| 19 | Preparation : 15 mins Cooking : none Serves 4 ¼ cucumber 225g ( 8oz ) peeled prawns 225g ( 8oz ) strawberries 1 avocado |juice 1 lemon 75ml ( 5 tbsp ) Waistline cocktail dressing salt and black pepper ½ iceberg lettuce few sprigs of dill to garnish ( optional ) Halve cucumber length-ways and slice thinly . |
| 20 | As a spectacle few events match the ADT London Marathon . |
| 21 | Life may be easier there today , but when I was a child few people had cars and buses were infrequent . |
| 22 | In this storm of righteous indignation few commentators made the important but disheartening point that , except in moments of obvious crisis , the man in the street was as a rule little interested in foreign policy questions . |
| 23 | raises a lot of money through sponsorship few people committing money every month . |
| 24 | The shore remains frozen until the summer thaw ; during summer the beaches and rocky shores alike are scoured by floating ice ; in consequence few plants or animals inhabit the intertidal or upper littoral zones . |
| 25 | In fact , it was a roller-coaster few days for Campese . |
| 26 | It is a daunting prospect and an outcome few people want . |
| 27 | In this period few lairds could really afford the luxury of complete freedom of action in their politics , for the only means of avoiding ties of obligation , which were nonetheless real for being unspoken , was to refuse to accept any favour . |
| 28 | His wife dies in the opening few minutes of the movie and he spends the rest of his life mourning her . |
| 29 | It is a steamy listen , and one for which , after the opening few minutes , I never came near to suspending disbelief . |
| 30 | After 200 years in the tourist business , Madeira provides a service few places in the world could rival . |