Example sentences of "few people [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are times , of course , when all goes well and we actually enjoy it , but at other times the cost seems too heavy and we have few people we can share the job with or who can understand . |
| 2 | He was n't allowed to work that day , so people turned up in a white shirt and tie and looking smart , they had to wear uniforms even a cap but unfortunately nowadays , although a lot of the I have seen quite a few people their uniform has changed since I left , but erm they do come to work in very very casual work now . |
| 3 | Representatives of the few people they had come to know in the course of their wanderings round the world were left to clear up . |
| 4 | At 82 , the few people one might wish to see are all dead . |
| 5 | For , as the report went on to show , the problem is not that manufacturers employ too few people , but that the few people whom they do employ produce much less than their counterparts elsewhere in the world . |
| 6 | He consulted a few people whom he thought were good tests of opinion . |
| 7 | She subscribed on the face of it to the proposition that we are not put here to be happy , although she was the first to complain if she , or the few people she loved , were not . |
| 8 | Unlike yourselves , Dr Blake has only recently joined us , and there are a few people she should meet . ’ |
| 9 | Even if you are only seeing a few people there should be someone to greet them on arrival and make them feel they have come to the right place on the right day . |
| 10 | He could n't know how few people there were who might be expected to send her flowers . |
| 11 | The few people who were visible looked like a crew of spectres as the shadowed hollows in their faces shifted with the wavering of the flames . |
| 12 | The benefits of this type of training for the heart and lungs are enormous , but very few people who train ever reach this level . |
| 13 | And there are a few people who wo n't be pleased whatever you do . |
| 14 | Sylvia is one of the few people who has learnt to interpret Elaine 's noises . |
| 15 | He said : ‘ We have very good arguments to prove that we can not be held responsible for the actions of a few people who did not know what they were doing . |
| 16 | Twenty-one years ago there were very few people who shared the Prince 's point of view . |
| 17 | Having known the Royal Family all her life , she was easy to talk to , and was one of the few people who knew what Diana was talking about when she spoke about her day-to-day life . |
| 18 | There are few people who are experts in prayer , who do it well . |
| 19 | There are a few people who are out to cause you any aggravation , whom you have to treat that seriously . |
| 20 | There was certainly a multitude of advisers but all too few people who took responsibility for action and for failure . |
| 21 | Suffice it to say that there are very few people who are at present at their full potential for good health and good looks . |
| 22 | Hamad Hasan al-Harash , for example , was a senior official in the Agriculture Department in Kufra ( Zawiya ) , had two well-established irrigated gardens worked by Egyptian labourers in 1975–9 , and was one of the few people who supplied fruit and vegetables to the Kufra market on a regular basis . |
| 23 | Perkin , I thought , was one of the very few people who 'd known about the camera and the trail . |
| 24 | Brackley itself produced rather few people who impressed themselves on the historical record . |
| 25 | Derry politics aroused nothing but distaste for working within the system among the few people who were interested in politics but who were not already involved in one of the two main parties . |
| 26 | People bought her lunch and rang her up and sent her birthday cards ; it seemed a particularly cruel joke that one of the few people who really did dislike her should be married to her . |
| 27 | While there is still a great deal to be done in both these fields , there are few people who are unaware of the terms and what they mean . |
| 28 | There were a few people who ‘ took an interest ’ first in one young man and then another . |
| 29 | While SWAPO 's decision to opt for English as the official language reflects a wish to avoid conflicts between different indigenous languages , relatively few people who have not been refugees know English well , and this will have to be taken into consideration in teacher training . |
| 30 | By the mid-1980s there were very few people who would have pretended to understand all the ramifications of Grant Related Expenditure Assessments , rate-capping or capital controls . |