Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] few " in BNC.
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| 1 | As one of the best records of 1990 it was actually a lucky escape that it sold so few copies , missed Top Of The Pops , slipped the chance of a slot on youth TV and lost the chase for Sunday newspaper publicity . |
| 2 | But at a time when tunes from bourgeois sources were increasingly popular and when traditional , so called ‘ folk ’ tunes were in decline , certainly in the music hall , Corvan used comparatively few of the former and actively retained many of the latter . |
| 3 | In terms of expectations of the ‘ good ’ pupil , I found surprisingly few sex differences . |
| 4 | The latter finding may be a matter of sampling error , since a number of the 14 surveys reported relatively few women in those categories . |
| 5 | It concluded that GPs in Britain referred relatively few patients to hospitals , handling many cases themselves . |
| 6 | Former England captain Chris Cowdrey was more critical , saying : ‘ Keith Fletcher said before the tour that he thought India posed very few problems . |
| 7 | Others feel that Freud used too few subjects to test his theories . |
| 8 | With such charm and grace does he distribute his roses among them that it is easy to forgive him for having — alas ! — one rose too few . |
| 9 | Some of these have been tested by Dr John Hunter of Addenbrooke 's Hospital , who found very few live bacteria in them , making them less useful than live yoghurt . |
| 10 | Among the Arapesh , she found very few ‘ natural differences ’ in men 's and women 's behaviour , with neither sex exhibiting aggression : women did the heavy carrying ( because of their supposedly strong foreheads ) , and the men lay with their wives during and after childbirth , ‘ sharing ’ the pain and strain . |
| 11 | In over 50 hours of recorded conversational speech , Brown , Currie and Kenworthy ( 1980 ) found very few examples of passives , it-clefts or wh-clefts . |
| 12 | I have recovered marked N. lapillus within 30 cm of the release site after a year whilst Palmer ( 1984 ) found very few N. emarginata to move more than 10 m in the same time . |
| 13 | We found very few teachers who kept no records of any kind . |
| 14 | British Airways reported very few cancellations and it was not axing any flights . |
| 15 | No Women 's Open was held as it attracted so few entrants , so all gained automatic entry to the Grand Prix . |
| 16 | The extent of royal jurisdiction varied enormously : at one extreme lay Roger II , the would-be autocrat , uttering absolutist doctrines out of Justinian ; or the English king , who , however tied by custom , had effective control both of the king 's court , which retained a wide jurisdiction and was capable , under Henry II , of rapid expansion , and over the old popular courts of the shire and , where they had not fallen into private hands , of the hundred ; at the other extreme was the German king , much of whose jurisdiction had been delegated to the ecclesiastical immunities , and equally much was slipping , in the twelfth century , into princely hands ; or the French king , who was expected to do high justice to all who came , but received comparatively few callers from outside the royal domain . |
| 17 | Actually , I was surprised when looking through some book a couple of years ago to find that players like Gray played relatively few game per season , often being injured . |
| 18 | Whatever refereeing failures there may have been by Alf Buksh at Tottenham on Saturday and most critics believe Mr Buksh booked too few Arsenal players too late Graham 's remarks afterwards did not befit an Arsenal manager . |
| 19 | Arguments are more likely to be over domestic chores and money , than children or sex ( which caused very few rows indeed — only 11% ) . |
| 20 | During those early years of the colony 's existence we received very few of the homeless children who had grown accustomed to street wandering . |
| 21 | He found many rare species of bird , plant and insect upon his rambles , and understanding man 's destructive nature , he told very few folk the location of his finds . |
| 22 | The experimental subjects , distracted for a moment by having to make a telephone call and record the predicted temperature for the day , recalled very few dreams indeed compared to the control group . |
| 23 | In fact it allowed very few off-worlders on to the planet , and they were mostly technicians with special skills — who were required to live restricted lives in special compounds , hardly ever mixing with the local population . |
| 24 | IT does n't surprise me that a survey showed very few Britons would give up their pet for £1m . |
| 25 | Blood was detected in the urine on biochemical screening , but microscopy showed very few red cells . |
| 26 | A survey carried out by the Medical Officer of Health for Sheffield in 1912 showed very few MOsH to be in favour of day nurseries . |
| 27 | He made use of the Cabinet-committee structure as a filter for business , though he chaired very few committees himself ( the main exceptions were the Economic Policy and Defence committees ) . |
| 28 | I found it difficult to get cuttings to root in earlier years , but I discovered that by starting them in water for 10 days , then potting up , I lost very few . |
| 29 | They needed very few . |
| 30 | his department 's examination results , which included too few ‘ high fliers ’ due to low teacher-expectations ; |