Example sentences of "[prep] few [conj] " in BNC.
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1 | In the absence of few if any other UK acquirers with their own distribution outlets in the Abbey National-style , the only hope , apart from closure , for these companies may be to seek out other Aegon-type deals . |
2 | The very good performance of division reported in some cases ( Lum , Yuen and Dodd , Severance and Duhne ) , and relatively poor performance in others ( Kaimann ) , is likely to have been the result of few or many clashes of this kind . |
3 | The next three years at this school are the source of few and faint memories , but school relieved the loneliness of only-childhood . |
4 | In her private apartments the Empress dressed simply , usually in black , with few or no jewels , for contrary to public belief , she was not particularly fond of clothes and dressed up only when her role demanded it . |
5 | The sample was obtained by selecting one in five of the 42 per cent of people who left school in Scotland in 1977–8 with few or no qualifications ( i.e. without at least a grade O in the Scottish Certificate of Education ) . |
6 | Filter manufacturers ' recommendations are still based on tanks with few or no plants . |
7 | Those from an unskilled manual working class background left with few or no qualifications and emerged into manual jobs with a ‘ careerless ’ orientation . |
8 | A study of 79 London mothers aged 16–19 in late pregnancy confirmed that they are still usually of working class status with few or no qualifications and little chance of career-type employment . |
9 | In 1947 over half the mornings and one-third of the evenings were owned by companies with few or no other newspaper interests elsewhere . |
10 | The findings of our survey can be summarised to produce the following picture of the typical ‘ officially known ’ Wirral heroin user : a young , unemployed , single person ( usually male ) , living with his or her family in a socially deprived area , with few or no educational qualifications . |
11 | There was no provision for richer districts to subsidize poorer , hence unions with large numbers of poor persons could not tap the resources of those with few or none — a source of increasing resentment among Guardians of some poorer unions . |
12 | Open-field farming , with few or no hedges must have produced a very bare landscape , totally lacking in visual interest which the great modern prairie farms of East Anglia have actually re-created in the last few decades . |
13 | Like his father , Smith was fond of gambling on horses , though with marked lack of success ; he shared this propensity with few or no other deans of Christ Church . |
14 | These disparities are largely attributed to poor educational attainment — too many people leaving at the statutory school leaving age with few or no qualifications , too few continuing their education and too few entering higher education . |
15 | Entering through the W door , one of the best preserved in France , on encounters an apparently vast hall with few and high-placed windows which are restricted to the S side ( the lost claustral buildings abutted in the N ) . |
16 | And , with few and mostly temporary exceptions , every capitalist country has a liberal-democratic political system … |
17 | Despite their preponderance in numbers still — for probably not a great many had been slain — fleeing in all directions as they had done , horseless and with few if any senior commanders , it was all but inconceivable that they could re-form and offer any coherent opposition . |
18 | Taking a leaf out of NCR Corp 's book of strategies , Unisys Corp will next week unveil the first of a new line of highly configurable Intel Corp and EISA-based personal computers that , with few if any changes , will magically turn into Unix-run workstations and entry-level servers early in the second quarter . |
19 | To look at the black experience in Britain since 1979 is to expose the effects of Conservative policies at their harshest , with few if any palliative gestures to hide the stark reality of life for deprived minorities in the 1980s . |
20 | The objections to the use of the term case management has resulted in the abandonment of a term with a long history of service use , evaluation and exploration , and the substitution of one with few if any empirical referents at all . |
21 | Something she 'd suffered , like chickenpox : nasty , but with few if any lasting effects . |
22 | Ralph Berger and Ian Oswald established that the REM sleep periods characterized by few and small eye movements were accompanied by experiences of what they called " passive " dreaming , with few events reported that the subject could have been scanning . |
23 | The validity of these tests , however , has been assessed by few and unconfirmed studies , in patients who were not taking NSAID , and direct comparison between them has been lacking . |