Example sentences of "[adv] few [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh right few minutes then . |
| 2 | It is a piece with few reasons to be a film , and mercifully few pretensions to cinematic status . |
| 3 | One of the most striking features of IBM 's lamentable personal computer business is that there is not a single reason embedded in the hardware why IBM mainframe and AS/400 users should buy their personal computers from IBM rather than from its army of tormentors led by Compaq Computer Corp : presumably few customers have actually asked IBM for 3270 and 5250 emulation in ROM on the motherboard at no extra charge in its PS/2s — or perhaps IBM thought that would kill off its dumb tube business and resisted until it was too late — now it makes no money on personal computers and sells few dumb tubes . |
| 4 | Presumably few people said ‘ No ’ to him , Well , Kelly reflected as she dialled the Templemans ' number angrily , there was a first time for everything . |
| 5 | As with the previous species rather few reports are received annually . |
| 6 | However , there have been rather few cases which have addressed at all directly the question of the legality of the use of nuclear weapons , and even fewer judgments touching on this . |
| 7 | Random sampling , it can be argued , makes rather few concessions to the fact that human populations are not normally socially well-mixed : indeed , they tend to develop distinct homogeneity within subgroups . |
| 8 | Brackley itself produced rather few people who impressed themselves on the historical record . |
| 9 | Although perhaps rather few people rely on their relatives for regular financial support , many people go through times in their lives when such support is important to their capacity to establish or maintain a particular life style . |
| 10 | I was n't surprised that my mother was silent on this subject — she acknowledged the existence of rather few people . |
| 11 | In fact the survey was only a limited success because rather few observers took part . |
| 12 | The rather few fittings available are fairly expensive . |
| 13 | This is because there are rather few ways in which an image of the incident light can be formed . |
| 14 | But Libya presents rather few temptations of that kind . |
| 15 | This would restrict you to rather few banks these days . |
| 16 | For among the rather few objections by Pound that Eliot paid no attention to were one or two which would have required him to make consistent , in terms of locality and historical period , some of his references to London life . |
| 17 | In fact , genetical analysis of plant ‘ ecotypes ’ ( i.e. populations adapted to a particular habitat , for example growing close to the sea ) shows that sometimes rather few gene mutations can cause most of the morphological change . |
| 18 | What lends this observation particular piquancy however is that remarkably few players sound particularly good . |
| 19 | In the ante-bellum period , remarkably few Blacks were employed on Northern railways , but in the South they played a key role . |
| 20 | FOR A town of such ancient importance , Stamford has remarkably few ghost traditions . |
| 21 | Comparative anatomists tell us that there are remarkably few differences between our brains and those of monkeys and apes , other than that ours are bigger . |
| 22 | In fact , remarkably few birds of prey survive their first winter in the wild , but once they have done so life seems to be a bit easier for them . |
| 23 | Think again : by and large , America has made remarkably few mistakes in the region since the end of the Gulf war . |
| 24 | His country may be taking the first steps to a market economy , but on the streets there are remarkably few cars . |
| 25 | In contrast to certain other African countries , Zambia had remarkably few periodicals published by churches or religious organizations ; the few that were published all had small circulations . |
| 26 | There are remarkably few fumblings between the main historical chapters as the narrative is handed from one writer to the next . |
| 27 | Despite the cramped conditions on the battle bus , and the often hairy flights through appalling weather in the Dan Air turbo prop affectionately dubbed Thunderpaddy One , remarkably few nerves were frayed . |
| 28 | Agriculture was the main occupation for many years but now unhappily few farms remain , due to building development . |
| 29 | A blonde , like me , only few years younger ? ’ |
| 30 | So far , only few introns have been detected in mitochondria from angiosperms and gymnosperms and all belong to group II ( 9 , 10 , 11 ) . |