Example sentences of "few [noun pl] where " in BNC.
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| 1 | Between 1974 and 1979 I had become concerned with the number of investigations conducted in a few States where , despite representations from properly appointed accredited representatives , the findings in the final reports were clearly less than satisfactory . |
| 2 | Although there were few States where the Republicans were as deeply entrenched as the Democrats were in their southern strongholds , there were several where the need for large welfare state payments to win votes for a marginal government was low . |
| 3 | In the few authorities where waste goes to modern landfills and methane is piped off for positive use , there is some energy payback , but there must be more incentive to separate the 40 per cent of the domestic waste that is vegetable-derived , and recycle it as compost . |
| 4 | We still get an , er quite a few calls where fireworks have been pushed through letter boxes , in including pillar boxes , and they can cause all sorts of havoc although they 'll not do an awful lot of damage to individuals . |
| 5 | In the few cases where the church plan diverges from the conventional arrangement by including only a single side aisle rather than the normal two , this volume , rather than the nave space , can be used to accommodate the dwellings access corridor , although it is noteworthy that in the conversion of St James 's Church , Farnham , Surrey , which is also described in this chapter , the optimum cross-sectional treatment of such an asymmetrical plan placed the longitudinal access corridor in the former nave space , the aisle projection being used to accommodate living-rooms . |
| 6 | The fault element is fairly substantial , since the Lawrence definition refers to an obvious and serious risk of at least substantial damage to property : there will be few cases where only such damage , and no risk to personal safety , is involved ; moreover , as argued above , a major reason for having rules of the road which all drivers should know is to reduce the risk of injuries and deaths resulting . |
| 7 | There have been very few cases where microorganisms have been used for in situ removal of chlorinated , or even petroleum compounds , and conventional biological processes are more commonly used . |
| 8 | Its success is almost invariably limited to the few cases where free advice enables a businessman to make immediate cost savings . |
| 9 | The political activity of women is limited and , in the few cases where they do achieve positions of some power , these positions are often linked to the traditional female role . |
| 10 | There will be definitional and ultimately theoretical problems in a few cases where land-use decisions are shared in a complex manner between a small group like a household , and a larger community . |
| 11 | There are very few cases where all the signals between cells are known . |
| 12 | Despite the constant temptation to misuse an artist 's name , there seem to be very few cases where the customer was actually deceived , although this surely must have happened with some pirate or bootleg records . |
| 13 | These show that , in those relatively few cases where the auditor 's role has been challenged , in virtually no cases at all has lack of independence been demonstrated — or even alleged . |
| 14 | In a few cases where a horn has been removed this can be proved by stating so or by an admission on the part of the defendant . |
| 15 | There have also been a few cases where junior members have successfully challenged senior colleagues in contests for sub committee chairmanships . |
| 16 | This can best be seen in the appointment of commissions to assess the subsidy on aliens granted in Edward IV 's last parliament , one of the few cases where the council took positive decisions about personnel rather than ( as with the sheriffs , for instance ) simply confirming Edward IV 's appointments . |
| 17 | The few cases where we know how a girl entered the trade show a mixture of influences . |
| 18 | Those who did marry all left the trade , except for a few cases where the husband was a serving soldier abroad during the war . |
| 19 | A diary based development and reporting approach was used in a few cases where close contact with the project team was feasible . |
| 20 | There are of course a few cases where wives earn more than their husbands . |
| 21 | However , in the few cases where it does occur , this type of update pattern makes timing calculations relatively easy . |
| 22 | A burst of frequency between 10 and 10 4 Hz is expected with a duration of several cycles and an energy release of between and in gravitational waves from a star core of mass M. The mass M is expected to be similar to that of the pulsars , which average around for the few cases where measurements have been made . |
| 23 | They were never very significant , few are well-documented , and many are now abandoned , but they represent , in the old and densely occupied county of Somerset , one of the few cases where an area was colonised and settled . |
| 24 | It is worth noting that there are not a few cases where constructions containing postverbal adjectives are equivalent to different structures having the same subject and the same adjectival and verbal properties , but with the former now in ordinary predicative position and the latter replaced by an adverb : ( 61 ) Mario seemed regretful Mario was apparently regretful ( 62 ) the sharks remain dangerous the sharks are still dangerous This is exactly what could have been expected , given structure ( 47 ) . |
| 25 | This can best be seen in the appointment of commissions to assess the subsidy on aliens granted in Edward IV 's last parliament , one of the few cases where the council took positive decisions about personnel rather than ( as with the sheriffs , for instance ) simply confirming Edward IV 's appointments . |
| 26 | There are also a few cases where we can roughly predict the location of a particular error . |
| 27 | This aspect is something that has increased in importance with the rise of inflation because there are very few cases where the deceased would not have been earning more by the date of trial than he was earning at the date of his death . |
| 28 | It is one of the very few institutions where the shared goals overcome nationalist or racial considerations . |
| 29 | Up to , you know , few hours where we 've been together , he 'll actually be prepared or at least to the rest of us , who the hell he 's talking about . |
| 30 | Economists are warning that a prolonged strike in the industry — one of the few sectors where the US enjoys a positive trade balance — would have a serious impact on the American trade deficit . |