Example sentences of "[am/are] few [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I will trust you , because there are few with whom I can talk as I can talk to you . |
| 2 | Graduate lecture courses are few at present but may be expected to grow in number in the near future . |
| 3 | ‘ Visitors are few to these parts , ’ the young man responded with distrust , ‘ on account of the isolation and , to be sure , the condition of our estate . ’ |
| 4 | Although biological methods of pest control such as Bacillus thuringiensis ( for caterpillars ) are now available to committed organic gardeners , there are few of us who never need to resort to the use of chemicals . |
| 5 | If there are few of them , we have seen why . |
| 6 | But experience shows that few companies will budge without vast incentives ; most firms recruit few local people ; some leave when tax holidays end ; and zones work only when there are few of them in any one area . |
| 7 | Despite its age there are few of the early features of Patrington remaining . |
| 8 | Here there are few of the excesses of cautioning seen in some other areas , even though prosecution is considered very much the last resort . |
| 9 | Some early rainwater systems were made from lead but there are few of these left . |
| 10 | There are few in this campaign , and so we are rather tetchy . |
| 11 | Rothstein argues that patron-client relationships are well suited to the peripheral capitalist development that has taken place in Latin America because they are a way of paring down the number of recipients of industrial gains , when these gains are few in number . |
| 12 | Fortunately they are few in number , but I 'm sorry to say they will always be around . |
| 13 | Sand dunes and beaches are few in Sussex . |
| 14 | Despite its low capital costs , the opportunities for such a system are few in Britain . |
| 15 | The Law Lords were and are few in number ; they tend to sit , otherwise than in the Judicial Committee , rarely . |
| 16 | Surviving eyewitnesses are few in number , and give contradictory descriptions of the killer , but all agree on his unnatural strength and viciousness . |
| 17 | Over the millennia they have slowly done so , and now there are once more prosperous cities in the west , and although the folk are few in number , they are hardy . |
| 18 | Unfortunately , I think they are few in number ; they are mainly young intellectuals who might have had a career but now can not . |
| 19 | Its title is misleading , since the Georgian interiors are few in number , and can not be said to give much idea of their period . |
| 20 | Though lithographs by Minton are few in number , he became fascinated by the medium , and on 24 November 1948 took part in a Third Programme broadcast on the subject , timed to coincide with the Victoria and Albert Museum exhibition , ‘ 150 Years of Lithography ’ . |
| 21 | are few in number ( 84 , most of them Roman Catholic ) , and they arose from the government 's offer in 1936 to pay 50–75% of the cost of building new secondary schools . |
| 22 | Commercial enquiries are few in number , and are either charged for or dealt with in a quid pro quo manner . |
| 23 | There are few in who wo n't recognise , Wallingford 's maltings manager for the last two years . |
| 24 | In the rat this method can be regarded as specific for the enterochromaffin like cells , because the mast cells are few in the mucosa and restricted to the superficial layer . |
| 25 | Stem cells , which are few in number and intermediate transit cells , which have limited proliferative capacity , occupy the lower two thirds of each crypt . |
| 26 | THERE ARE FEW AMONG US who put others before themselves . |