Example sentences of "too few [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The statistics in these countries contained too few births to women aged 45 and over to permit a useful assessment of the interacting effect of older age and birth order upon late fetal mortality . |
| 2 | Indeed , judicial control is relatively so rare and sporadic that there are too few court decisions relating to most areas of government activity to establish a detailed code of judge-made regulation governing those activities . |
| 3 | If prices are moving only slowly towards their equilibrium values , then they are currently ‘ too high ’ or ‘ too low ’ , and in either case too few transactions will take place . |
| 4 | Racecourses , in an effort to win more of the levy pot , lay on too many races with too few horses . |
| 5 | Also try to avoid italic and underlined type , there are too few dots to allow these to work properly . |
| 6 | They always had uncleanable carpets and too few ashtrays ( prime targets for students living in halls of residence ) and the service is usually lousy . |
| 7 | With a burgeoning caseload , too few judges , and increasing delays the courts may be tempted to block the further development of the law and to cut back on the advances already made . |
| 8 | But there are too few projects like Cleevedon , and too little money to help more than a handful of youngsters every year . |
| 9 | There were too many organizational structures with too few members and even less real action . |
| 10 | Dozens of boards of governors sessions have been postponed because too few members have turned up . |
| 11 | The Council itself came under criticism in the late 1960s as containing too few members from the colleges and polytechnics , especially members other than principals and directors . |
| 12 | That was back in the days when there were too many manufacturers and too few customers . |
| 13 | If inflation is too much money pursuing too few goods , it does not follow that we must — as we have been doing in this country — reduce the supply of money all the time and thus have the disastrous consequences for industry that have occurred . |
| 14 | I mean this is the the cause of inflation surely is to have more , too much money taken too few goods and if you produce more goods this helps to deflate , er we did n't have inflation thirty years ago . |
| 15 | The truth is that the East German leadership has so far shown all too few signs of wanting to change . |
| 16 | Too much of her usual talk of ‘ dreams ’ and ‘ angels ’ , and too few signs of either . |
| 17 | He ( I 'm sure of the pronoun , since all too few women carry the initials C ENG , MIEE , after their names ) refers to the Chinese proposal that the combined pull of the four giant outer planets influences our weather , and objects to using the term ‘ synod ’ , meaning an alignment of all the planets to describe this event . |
| 18 | It may be easy to argue that there are too few women doing physics and too many doing English ; reversing these trends , however , is an enormously difficult task , as the GIST team found out ( see Whyte 1986 ) . |
| 19 | That is , it is better to do too few things at once than too many . |
| 20 | Nor is Fujitsu in any position to improve its position with another acquisition — its balance sheet is too stretched and it ca n't use its shares — too few US investors would want to hold them . |
| 21 | In the example of Figure 15–5 a tax on meals leads to too few meals being produced . |
| 22 | The simple fact is that commitment and resource must be kept in rough equilibrium ; at the moment the infantry is being asked to do too much , with too few battalions . |
| 23 | There are a number of reasons why these filamentous algae flourish , the two most common being too much light ( artificial or sunlight ) and too few aquarium plants . |
| 24 | There was anxiety that judgments would be made about teachers ' handling of classes , based on too few visits . |
| 25 | Free market equilibrium leads to too few improvements . |
| 26 | There are too few conduits between the methodologically sophisticated humanities scholar and potential sources of funding . |
| 27 | They joined the drift of crowd towards the sitting-out places and the too few chairs . |
| 28 | Too few filmmakers have recognized that the argument for a British cinema could only begin when they showed a readiness to listen to people 's dreams and nightmares , and play them back to audiences in exciting narratives that would enable those watching to know themselves a little better , and to feel a widening sense of possibility in the way they shaped their lives . |
| 29 | Finally , in view of the crucial part which the further education sector plays in the educational and economic well-being of Wales , not least in the way in which it caters for the indigenous population , it is regrettable that too big a gap still exists between it and the secondary school sector and too few Welshmen and women , particularly perhaps among those who are Welsh speaking , recognize its many achievements in the past and the vital contribution which it will be called upon to make in the future . |
| 30 | Hence the presence of entry barriers may not mean there are too few firms in the industry , there may actually be too many ( von Weizsacker , 1980 ) . |