Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] few " in BNC.
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| 1 | As many or as few as desired . |
| 2 | You can travel as many or as few miles as you wish , but remember every lock you pass through you 'll be tackling on the way back . |
| 3 | From then on you 're free to choose as many or as few books as you wish . |
| 4 | You must always include a General , but apart from this you are free to choose as many or as few characters as you wish . |
| 5 | You must always include a General , but apart from this you are free to choose as many or as few characters as you wish . |
| 6 | The preferences could include as many or as few of the candidates as the voter wished . |
| 7 | It was run by Alfred Rozelaar Green who , having lived and worked in Paris before the war , wanted to imitate in London the French free academy system which offers an open house to anyone wishing to draw , paint or sculpt for as many or as few sessions as they wish . |
| 8 | A user of the TEI scheme may combine as many or as few additional tagsets as suit his or her needs . |
| 9 | However , there is often a need to refer to sequential files just to answer one or relatively few enquiries . |
| 10 | Or very few . |
| 11 | This suggested that COL1A2 might be a susceptibility locus for alcoholic cirrhosis with one , or very few , predisposing mutations possible . |
| 12 | There are billions of possible ways of putting together the bits of an airliner , and only one , or very few , of them would actually be an airliner . |
| 13 | Similarly , of all the millions of unique and , with hindsight equally improbable , arrangements of a heap of junk , only one ( or very few ) will fly . |
| 14 | The output probe order of the annealing is then broken into a set of probe contigs , with either no or very few clones connecting the last probe of one contig to the first probe of the next . |
| 15 | Nowadays many of us find that a bit strange , after all I do n't think any of us or very few of us here in this room have actually given our express consent to be British subjects . |
| 16 | None of them , or very few of them , if you buy a good quality one is dangerous . |
| 17 | None of them , or very few of them , if you buy a good quality one is dangerous . |
| 18 | One of the most striking qualities evident here is its unity , not a note too many or too few . |
| 19 | Suitable explanations for any delay would be that there are too many patients or too few doctors and that the service is underfunded . |
| 20 | Does this mean that too many or too few people drive cars in the rush hour ? |
| 21 | You are receiving too many or too few copies of the Globe each month |
| 22 | It is a piece with few reasons to be a film , and mercifully few pretensions to cinematic status . |
| 23 | But salaries are largely irrelevant in Angola , because there is so much money and so few things to buy . |
| 24 | The attention of the news media was firmly focused on the Falklands , and so few accounts of disturbances in British cities were reported . |
| 25 | By the same token , cinemas had no operators , and so few halls remained open . |
| 26 | Children who were identified with a dangerous or destructive person in the parent 's life and so few limits were set on their behaviour . |
| 27 | The price to urban consumers of bearing the losses incurred ( probably of the order of 2 per cent of their bills ) would have been considered by many to be an acceptable concession to the aspirations of country dwellers , and perhaps few would have endorsed the complaint by a contemporary free-market economist that ‘ a slum dweller has to contribute to the cost of providing electricity for a country mansion ’ . |
| 28 | It was rare for the painter to be able to do his own engraving , and conversely few engravers were artists in their own right . |
| 29 | Although this behaviour was widely condemned and probably few , if any , students took part , the nationalistic sentiments and feelings of frustration with the condition of modern China were not isolated phenomena . |
| 30 | Hardly anyone can have learned both to read and to write and probably few learned even to read just by attending Sunday classes . |