Example sentences of "but [adv] few " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were all aspiring entrepreneurs , but so few of them had an original idea . |
| 2 | England had alerted her ; so many people she had met there affected kindness but so few had warmth . |
| 3 | It was such a simple thing , to go against the consensus reality , but so few human beings could work up the willpower . |
| 4 | But so few local breeds had undergone any kind of specialized breeding to improve the stock , and the Western animals had to attempt to catch up with their long-established and highly pampered Oriental counterparts . |
| 5 | THE Government 's Homeswap Scheme is designed to help council and Housing Association tenants exchange properties but so few people seem aware of it that it hardly works . |
| 6 | But so few people take such words seriously that the nationalists have had to set their main protest for June 24th , Quebec 's national day , to be sure of a good turnout . |
| 7 | Richard Buswell spent hundreds of pounds advertising for staff , but so few people applied that he had to look abroad . |
| 8 | Many , I would hope , but probably few of the new sports climbers ( new as distinct from ‘ old ’ real climbers seeking risk-free pleasure ) . |
| 9 | Such limited logistic installations as were needed west of Singapore were to be built up at Aden , but as few troops as possible would be stationed there . |
| 10 | Mortensen ( 1933a ) remarked that O. spinea was similar to O. hamula but as few specimens of either had been collected it was not possible to judge if they were conspecific . |
| 11 | Changing career is something that most people think about at one time or another , but comparatively few actually take the plunge — let alone sign up as full-time mature students . |
| 12 | These included a high proportion of the householder appeals and of the minor and change of use appeals , but comparatively few major proposals . |
| 13 | Because they have been an important part of some historic eruptions , a few pumice deposits are well-documented , but surprisingly few have been studied closely from a geological viewpoint . |
| 14 | True enough there is the odd Porsche but surprisingly few patrons of the supermarkets carry mobile phones of filo-faxes . |
| 15 | The centre of the city is full of private schools advertising English language courses , but surprisingly few of the Brazilians seem to speak English . |
| 16 | Few managers admit that boredom is a threat to the job but equally few would deny that being part of a pilot scheme or of being part of a trial run of new development can carry with it some air of excitement . |
| 17 | Many horses are aggressive , but fortunately few are mean , and those that are have most frequently been made that way by people . |
| 18 | Aherne has n't got the remarkably crisp and long pass of Saunders , the man he ousted , but then few in international rugby have . |
| 19 | REVIEWING Government policy and achievements in several areas of concern , the Friends of the Earth report finds ‘ some good intentions but relatively few actions to back up the words ’ . |
| 20 | They are capital intensive industries because they have a lot of money invested in machinery and equipment but relatively few workers . |
| 21 | A set of silver vessels was found in the Silver Vessels Sanctuary ( Evans ' South House ) at Knossos , but relatively few vases made of precious metals have been found in Crete . |
| 22 | Large numbers of workers and citizens involved in the disturbances have been arrested , but relatively few students and intellectuals . |
| 23 | In any case the overriding question for a constituency party is not how many candidates it might field but how few it must . |
| 24 | A group of youths on motor-scooters roared past , but otherwise few people were about . |
| 25 | His German cavalry was first class , but sadly few in numbers , while the Duke 's English cavalrymen were mere fools on horseback ; expensive and touchy , prone to insanity , and utter strangers to discipline . |
| 26 | The two rocket boosters attached to the shuttle 's belly drop back to sea and are reused , but too few will be built to support the NASA manifest . |
| 27 | Bovril and Oxo do supply a few calories , but too few to be worth counting , and can provide a nice , hot , comforting drink on a dieting evening . |
| 28 | All of us , to some degree and in our own way , are ready to lecture and opinionize , but too few to listen . |
| 29 | There seem to be too many outlets in Wales , for example , but too few in the north of England . |
| 30 | — generally , dictionaries have more senses than necessary for broad applications but too few for specific applications ; |