Example sentences of "for [adv] few " in BNC.
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| 1 | One might hardly suspect that so simple a task for so few seconds of film could prove so practically trying and , on reflection , so symbolic of our whole chain of adventures , attempting to keep aloft and alive a consecutive string of luminous mirrors against rather ridiculous odds . |
| 2 | With over 100 individual meeting rooms available on campus , we are used to accommodating for as few as 20 or as many as 1,000 delegates . |
| 3 | All that energy for comparatively few sales , but she will get them for the paperback as she is very much the rising star of Black American fiction . |
| 4 | For too few directors does pay fall by as much when performance sags as it rises in good times . |
| 5 | The problem was too many men applying for too few places ; in 1895 , eighty-seven men passed the required examination for the ministry although the college still had only sixty places . |
| 6 | Management development at present is seen as too little , too late and for too few . |
| 7 | Britain 's higher education system still provides excellent standards of education , but does so for too few people . |
| 8 | There were too many working hours for too few police as it was without letting any be wasted unnecessarily . |
| 9 | He has two kinds of Test performance — five for very few , and none for a lot , and this was looking like the latter . |
| 10 | The formal rules and regimen are not the bases for the ways in which ordinary policemen perform their tasks , for very few rankers follow even a proportion of the management 's rules of conduct ( for example see Bittner 1967 ; Cain 1973 ; Chatterton 1976 , 1979 ; Eticson 1982 ; Holdaway 1980 , 1983 ; Manning 1977 , 1979 ; Punch 1979a ; Rubinstein 1973 ; Wilson 1968 ) . |
| 11 | We both cared very much for very few people . |
| 12 | Such a laugh was made for very few . |
| 13 | The reasons for these two situations arising could be because the correct word is not in the word list , but this in fact accounts for very few cases . |
| 14 | For very few of these past 170 years have Greeks felt properly in command of their own country . |
| 15 | The usefulness of this framework was limited , however , as the dates of occupation were known for very few sites ; and furthermore , the time interval between sites and finds was also unknown . |
| 16 | Thus a proposed pit closure threatened the economic base of the entire community ; an absence of work for the male adults meant the destruction of every family 's economic foundation , for very few women ( save a few who worked in village shops etc. ) had either jobs or the local opportunities of jobs . |
| 17 | Looking south , Huy could just make out the shape of the wall surrounding the palace compound , and remembered that quiet and contentment existed in reality for very few , and then only for a fraction of the time one spends under this sun . |
| 18 | Currently that 's true for very few women . |