Example sentences of "a [noun sg] few " in BNC.
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| 1 | Appalling weather conditions forced Lauda to withdraw after just two laps — a decision few , except Enzo Ferrari , criticized . |
| 2 | He then attacked QPR , the club who swung the vote against the deal , saying : ‘ The eventual Judas was Queens Park Rangers , a decision few people in football can comprehend . |
| 3 | Expert systems can teach people with a patience few human instructors could ever display . |
| 4 | Such were the army , in which both George I and George II took a strong personal interest , and foreign policy , about which as a rule few ministers knew or cared very much . |
| 5 | Life may be easier there today , but when I was a child few people had cars and buses were infrequent . |
| 6 | This challenges the assumption that such programmes are of interest only to a specialist few : |
| 7 | As a spectacle few events match the ADT London Marathon . |
| 8 | Also , when describing the work in a bookshop few of them mentioned the fact that the bookseller had to decide what books to buy for his stock and few realized how much financial expertise was needed . |
| 9 | Whereas for Horvath and Sankoff ( as noted above ) the linguistic variables are ‘ well defined ’ , this is not so in a dialect-divergent community : in such a community few of the linguistic variables can be said to be defined at all . |
| 10 | In fact , it was a roller-coaster few days for Campese . |
| 11 | Germany is now paying a price few other countries would have accepted for not providing itself with better citizenship and immigration laws in the calmer years before unification . |
| 12 | Here are a sample few : |
| 13 | Few will tire of the vast range of activities and attractions offered by these resorts , but for a change , the incomparable beauty of Venice — Italy 's unique waterways city of stunning mirror image landscapes — attracts like a magnet few will resist , and further afield , Veneto unfolds a host of other magical towns and monuments waiting to be explored . |
| 14 | After 200 years in the tourist business , Madeira provides a service few places in the world could rival . |
| 15 | That is a prospect few businesses will wish to ignore . " |
| 16 | Perhaps one can assume , therefore , that it is a subject few people know anything about . |
| 17 | The entry for ‘ home ’ , for example , defines it in several ways , including a sense few male lexicographers would ever consider : most women 's place of work . |
| 18 | Katew Westland CIA liaison officer is his assistant but Kate is one person who realises the project is a matter few people understand . |
| 19 | Had he stayed , there was every chance that he might have been forced eventually to join the Militia — a thing few Titfords would face with relish ; but most significant of all , perhaps — apart from his obvious inner resilience and entrepreneurial spirit — he had the singular advantage of having well-off relations to latch onto in London . |
| 20 | For I believe I am about to witness a thing few people see and live to tell of , he thought . |
| 21 | Since then he has created a garden few of us would aspire to after a lifetime of gardening . |
| 22 | No doubt it will have given satisfaction to the chairman of BR and his chief executive as they sit , to quote your article , ‘ in their new headquarters building next to Euston Station … ( feeling ) … confident about the future in a way few other British executives might , notwithstanding the recession ’ and waiting it would seem , either for rescue in the form of ‘ more generous ’ support for rail from the present government ( ‘ always mindful that its majority is dependent of MPs representing the London commuter belt ’ ) or , conversely , a doubled grant from a future Labour administration . |
| 23 | Most people involved with them belong to a cult that Speaks a language few of us understand . |
| 24 | But even improbably swift , prudent action , does not solve the problem of the GDR 's lack of any other reason for existence except a Socialism few now want . |
| 25 | Reach out here ( whoops ) for a cleansing few gulps of … |