Example sentences of "were few [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We searched for examples around the country but found there were few operating in the National Health Service . |
| 2 | Certainly at the time of the 1968 Act there were few cheque cards or credit cards . |
| 3 | So although the absence of key workers in Newham meant that there were few boundary disputes , it also meant that the development officer could become very closely involved in organising other services , and perhaps feel that other services took advantage of the Home Support Project and showed less involvement than would have been necessary without the project . |
| 4 | There were few electricity disconnections , not surprising since heat and hot water were provided by gas , but nearly a fifth of the households surveyed had had their gas cut off . |
| 5 | Until recently , there were few radiocarbon results for material directly associated with Beaker pottery . |
| 6 | Nevertheless , cultivators and labourers were drawn from all castes , and there were few caste monopolies . |
| 7 | There were few air raids in 1942 and 1943 and a more or less normal tram service could be maintained in Croydon . |
| 8 | In contrast to the previous month there were few air raids on Liverpool in April and although the warning sounded several times , no bombs were dropped until the twenty-sixth of the month . |
| 9 | True , there were few creature comforts behind the wheel and few concessions from the car itself once you were on the move . |
| 10 | Nevertheless , the high reliability of most of the new postwar plant , together with the policy of keeping very old plant in service virtually until it dropped apart ( there were few plant retirements in this period ) was sufficient for the National Grid Control to maintain a supply , albeit with immense efforts from the operating staff during the winter peaks , when virtually all available plant had to be maintained in readiness . |
| 11 | There were few peasant proprietors ( perhaps six per cent. ) but tenant farmers enjoyed the best customary tenure outside Catalonia and the Basque Provinces ; if rents were higher , the tenant could not be evicted ; he was compensated for improvement and his rents settled by arbitration . |
| 12 | This exercise suggested that there were few class differences in community nurse use or acute hospital care . |
| 13 | There were few role models in the wider society which suggested that our creativity was so diverse and has such wonderful potential . |
| 14 | The infirmaries at the plant were shut , Chernobyl 's medical centre was not equipped to take nuclear cases , there were few iodine pills to distribute — although they are the only way of preventing radioactive iodine from accumulating in the thyroid . |