Example sentences of "[noun pl] few [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Harsh disciplinary systems giving prisoners few rights of defence , combined with ineffective and unused grievance procedures ; |
2 | Zweig explains that faced with the vast quantities of surviving documents in conventional archives few historians can be comprehensive , but with an electronic archive and a toolchest filled with versatile software historians could work with digital information more exhaustively ( 1993 : 256 ) . |
3 | In the thin and trimmed hedgerows few birds or mammals find thick cover for heating and feeding their young . |
4 | Some of them , sadly , are glib , glossy reports which do the client companies few favours . |
5 | He writes books and articles few people want to read . |
6 | In those days few ministers thought it necessary to attend their own counts , and Baldwin had his vigil in the No. 10 secretaries ' room enlivened by the presence of Churchill : ‘ The P.M. [ sat ] with narrow slips of paper on which he inscribed the three lists as they arrived . |
7 | ‘ In the early days few people were interested in outdoor pursuits indeed there were few outdoor activities anyway . |
8 | But these days few pundits dare bet on it , because each turn of the Maastricht maze reveals another apparently dead end . |
9 | For 10 years few people knew anything about it . |
10 | Do you the fact that you actually lived in the flats few years er at the same with you working on the flats as well . |
11 | Though the man in front of him looked human enough , he had the voiders in tow , and spoke with knowledge of things few humans had access to . |
12 | Whatever the organizational changes few people in Bonn expect any fundamental shifts in science policy . |
13 | They have compensations few people have — the community itself , and its women at their service . |
14 | BEFORE the two-pronged Antipodean attack on the Springboks few South Africans were prepared to anticipate a plummeting fall from grace . |
15 | IN THE history of spectacular comebacks few people can rival Eduardo Cojuangco . |
16 | But away from the cameras few people gave them much chance of a future together . |
17 | TELEVISION 'S merciless eye does footballers few favours and perhaps it is unfair to take them to task too readily for their occasional excesses . |
18 | Edward gave successive popes few grounds for complaint with regard to episcopal appointments . |
19 | Though eastern Germany 's economy has virtually collapsed , western Germany 's shows few signs of faltering . |