Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] few " in BNC.
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| 1 | One might hardly suspect that so simple a task for so few seconds of film could prove so practically trying and , on reflection , so symbolic of our whole chain of adventures , attempting to keep aloft and alive a consecutive string of luminous mirrors against rather ridiculous odds . |
| 2 | Full and distended after very few mouthfuls |
| 3 | Lincoln Brower has shown that birds learn to avoid aposematic prey after very few ‘ trials ’ ( usually less than five ) , while Mariam Rothschild at Cambridge University has produced clear evidence that birds remember for many months to associate particular colour patterns in prey , with distasteful experiences . |
| 4 | I was n't surprised that my mother was silent on this subject — she acknowledged the existence of rather few people . |
| 5 | Some children are deprived of so few of the ‘ goodies ’ in life that it is very difficult to find effective reinforcers — very little is rewarding . |
| 6 | To misquote Sir Winston Churchill : ‘ Never in the field of human conflict did the votes of so many influence the outcome of so few in so much time . ’ |
| 7 | But until you consider the amount of money tied up in County Farms , and the return it gives us , and the , the subsidy if you like of so few people , and you think that school ca n't have toilets and things like that , then these should all go into the decision making melting pot , and this council should not blind itself to the various options that there could be , and in those circumstances Mr I think should be allowed to explore the possibilities of the market . |
| 8 | First , the evolution of a new unique sequence with a new function may require the selective modification of as few as 5 per cent of the bases . |
| 9 | JOHN MAJOR 'S hope of a Commons victory on the Maastricht Treaty rested on the votes of as few as four rebel MPs last night . |
| 10 | The polymerase chain reaction was pioneered for diagnostic use , and the detection of as few as two genomes of M tuberculosis in clinical samples is now possible . |
| 11 | For the vast majority of Tanzanians it is a second language , being the mother tongue of relatively few . |
| 12 | The very young Aplysia has a nervous system consisting of relatively few neurons , while the period of onset of the capacity to show sensitization as a behavioural phenomenon matches that of a great increase in neuronal number ; yet if all that sensitization required was the facilitatory response in a set of three neurons of the network described earlier , it is hard to see why , by contrast with habituation , it should be dependent on such an increase in neuronal number . |
| 13 | As in all participatory schemes , there is a risk of middle class bias in parental representation on governing bodies , with the evidence pointing to the active involvement of relatively few parents . |
| 14 | The effect of relatively few firearms had been devastating against a warrior race with no previous experience of them . |
| 15 | Even among the Europeans mass intercontinental migration was confined to the people of relatively few countries , in this period overwhelmingly to the British , the Irish and the Germans , and , from the 1860s on , the Norwegians and Swedes — the Danes never emigrated to the same extent — whose small numbers conceal the enormous relative size of their demographic drain . |
| 16 | All air travel to Iceland is through Keflavik airport , about fifty kilometres from Reykjavik , a beautiful modern terminal , and one of very few where duty free is available on arrival . |
| 17 | I would n't be surprised if I was one of very few who said they were either not bothered with how they look , or happy . |
| 18 | In the past , companies put ‘ great responsibility in the hands of very few managers who became ‘ all-rounders ’ covering large areas both in terms of product and geography' . |
| 19 | By September , the school would be in the awkward position of being the only selective school in Essex not to be GM and it would be one of very few secondary schools generally in north-east Essex not to have opted out , she said . |
| 20 | I can think of very few occasions when you would not have the time to state your case . |
| 21 | East Enders Gunshot are one of very few British rap crews to have developed a unique and unmistakable style . |
| 22 | In the 14 years since 1978 , during which I have been the only consultant physician in respiratory medicine in West Cumbria , there should , according to the above statistics , have been at least 70 deaths from asthma and yet I know of very few , having personal knowledge of only three . |
| 23 | She is one of only 20 women Circuit Judges out of over 500 and one of very few Circuit Judges who has never been a barrister . |
| 24 | With the exception of very few families who had the protection of the British consulate , the Jews were defenceless . |
| 25 | All I will say is that in attempting to develop theories about the alleviation of neurological dysfunction as she has , Dr Hari has been one of very few medical scientists to address an important ‘ black hole ’ in the research agenda . |
| 26 | The unexpected finding of very few and exclusively group II introns in plant mitochondria may be explained by their requirement for trans-splicing . |
| 27 | Although he died in 1940 at the age of 35 , he had in the space of very few years produced a quite prodigious range of political and literary texts . |
| 28 | ‘ Yes , ’ said April , making it increasingly apparent that she was a girl of very few words . |
| 29 | One thousand babies later , in April 1919 , Edith Pye departed , one of very few women to have been made a chévalier of the Legion of Honour . |
| 30 | Earlier atomism had always involved atoms ultimately of the same stuff ; and in the nineteenth century ‘ physical atoms ’ , the real ultimate building-blocks of the world ( probably of very few different sorts ) were distinguished from Dalton 's ‘ chemical atoms ’ , the smallest units taking part in chemical changes . |