Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] few " in BNC.
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| 1 | A series of police operations in Istanbul , Ankara and Adana , mainly directed against safe houses of Turkey 's principal urban guerrilla organisation , Devrimci Sol , in which casualties were high with few prisoners taken , fuelled allegations that the police were shooting to kill with out giving a warning or an opportunity to surrender . |
| 2 | Economies dependent on few commodities |
| 3 | Organisational structures are simple with few layers and few people in senior executive positions . |
| 4 | The uses to which equipment was put , however , were very limited with few realising the full potential of the investment . |
| 5 | We know little of the living conditions of the people of Halling at this period , but examples of other area 's tell us that life for the village labouring class was hard with few comforts , houses being often nothing more than hovels with earth packed floors on which rushes would be strewn . |
| 6 | Thesiger 's life in Kenya is spartan with few possessions , but many memories of life with Marsh Arabs and Bedu nomads , memories he 's delighted to share with Oxford . |
| 7 | Johnny 's albums are a mix of blues standards seasoned with few of his own tunes . |
| 8 | Again there are two broad categories : either the jaws appear longer than wide with many oral papillae and large open tentacle pores or the jaw appears as broad as long with few oral papillae and small tentacle pores . |
| 9 | Also , as it is late with few people around , I see the dangers to others of my speeding as being less . |
| 10 | From ‘ Get A Job ’ with the Miracles in 1958 , his high , crooning tenor had drifted through the Sixties , Seventies and Eighties like some ageless cupid with few apparent wrinkles . |
| 11 | The beginning of term trip to Keswick had been successful despite few numbers . |
| 12 | Traditionally , management-staff relations in local government have been relatively harmonious with few serious disputes . |
| 13 | Legislation has intruded on free contracting in few cases ; particular types of clauses in consumer contracts are rendered ineffective , and in some cases contracting must be in prescribed form . |