Example sentences of "but [conj] few " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is of the form A-BC ( which would be meaningless at levels of more general affinity , and is excluded by the homogeneity of style at the unitary level ) , where some of the mosaicists responsible for mosaic A worked on B , and some of the mosaicists responsible for B worked on 6 , but where few mosaicists worked on both A and C. At each step in such a " distributed relationship " some craftsmen are " lost " . |
| 2 | On this last point , it is worth emphasizing , in advance of the evidence , that Nietzsche did certainly reject a quantity of material before the final draft , but that few of the " suppressed " passages are at all long and none are strikingly impressive . |
| 3 | Greenpeace expedition leader , Paul Horsman , said that he did not blame the Iranians since " misunderstandings were bound to occur " , but that few people seemed willing to believe that Greenpeace was an organization wholly independent of Western governments . |
| 4 | We have talked in this book about the bereaved person 's need to talk and be recognized as someone having a mourning role , but if few people know us anyway , they are less likely to be aware of the major change in our life and we are less likely to feel able to talk to them about it . |
| 5 | The voices are few not only because it takes courage to speak out against the tide of opinion , but because few can see the issue in a wider context and take the longer perspective . |