Example sentences of "[noun pl] few [noun pl] " 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 | 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 . |
| 6 | But these days few pundits dare bet on it , because each turn of the Maastricht maze reveals another apparently dead end . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | TELEVISION 'S merciless eye does footballers few favours and perhaps it is unfair to take them to task too readily for their occasional excesses . |
| 10 | Edward gave successive popes few grounds for complaint with regard to episcopal appointments . |
| 11 | Though eastern Germany 's economy has virtually collapsed , western Germany 's shows few signs of faltering . |