Example sentences of "[det] [adv] few " in BNC.
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| 1 | A shame , then , that so few of the Discovery 's customers are likely ever to make use of these abilities . |
| 2 | That so few boilers in the UK would have met the tougher standards would have provided an excellent opportunity for new , cost-reducing investment . |
| 3 | It 's despair that so few of us care . |
| 4 | The truth is that the East German leadership has so far shown all too few signs of wanting to change . |
| 5 | There was certainly a multitude of advisers but all too few people who took responsibility for action and for failure . |
| 6 | He ( I 'm sure of the pronoun , since all too few women carry the initials C ENG , MIEE , after their names ) refers to the Chinese proposal that the combined pull of the four giant outer planets influences our weather , and objects to using the term ‘ synod ’ , meaning an alignment of all the planets to describe this event . |
| 7 | In Britain ( with all too few honourable exceptions ) we tend to accept as the norm , prefab huts equipped with smelly loos , worn carpets or line , tatty curtains and torn seat cushions . |
| 8 | She , too , was unhappy about the play — to say nothing about the fact that all too few people carne to see her in her dressing room , a circumstance that was startling to her , even though she did n't react in the way that Ken himself would have done . |
| 9 | At the clearing stations the backlog of even the partially repaired mounted alarmingly as , with the constant demand of the Voie Sacrée supply route , all too few vehicles could be spared for use as ambulances . |
| 10 | He was one of those relatively few actors — Ian McKellen and Simon Callow are others — who somehow boost the confidence of regular theatregoers by taking the opportunity of a free evening to watch fellow actors at work . |
| 11 | I am sure that if he had been with one of the stronger or more glamorous clubs at the time , his name would now be held in respect by a far wider clientele than those relatively few of us who were privileged to see him play his heart out for Crystal Palace . |
| 12 | These show that , in those relatively few cases where the auditor 's role has been challenged , in virtually no cases at all has lack of independence been demonstrated — or even alleged . |
| 13 | We first consider tests of the rational expectations hypothesis in those relatively few cases when the expected variable is directly measured . |
| 14 | Those very few who do receive enough child support to ‘ float ’ them off income support may nevertheless lose financially because of the consequent loss of passported benefits such as free school meals . |
| 15 | Those very few of us who are interested in linguistic content analysis also borrow shamelessly from our colleagues in literary studies and likewise from the computational linguists . |
| 16 | From one of olympic fame to another who works in a typing ool. hazel cooke from Gloucester has been given the British empire medal — for her efforts in one of those very few recession beating jobs — she works in the insolvency section of the department of Trade and Industry . |
| 17 | One is the actual career breaks that happen for any woman , unless she is in a very highly paid job , where she can afford child care of her own , or unless she 's in those very few jobs in this country which actually erm are with employees who are responsible enough to either provide their own child care , or to allow women those sorts of career breaks in order to bring up children . |
| 18 | Indeed there are so many newspapers in contrast to the two television networks , that relatively few voters ( as a percentage ) read even the best-selling paper . |
| 19 | Paul Korshin argues , on the other hand , that very few writers could have been supported by patronage to such an extent that they actually lost their independence . |
| 20 | He could n't care less that very few viewers take his programme seriously , regaling us with tales of the terrible people they 've featured . |