Example sentences of "[vb past] [adj] few " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I I got right few bollockings . |
| 2 | Certainly Hearts created precious few chances , and the fact their goal , which came in the 20th minute , stemmed from a blunder must have proved hard for United to swallow at a ground where they last won in 1985 . |
| 3 | She made precious few concessions to the old orthodoxies . |
| 4 | I think we as a town , do n't want to lose , we got precious few buildings , for community use , and I think we need to look at this to the different light now . |
| 5 | Having decided to leave out Phillip DeFreitas for the 15th time in a start-stop career , Dexter and Co had precious few alternatives to consider . |
| 6 | Lake , the 24-year-old from Torquay , who was runner-up to Sarah Loosemore in 1988 , had precious few chances against an opponent in determined and dominant mood . |