Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] few [adj] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His picture of the democratic tyranny of Athenion , the Aristotelian who led the anti-Roman movement in Athens in 87 , is the most hostile image of a popular leader in Greek literature — and I know of few comparable portraits in other literatures ( fr. 36 Jacoby ) . |
| 2 | King comments on the effects in Kenya ; his remarks would apply with few local variants to nearly all the countries visited in our survey : |
| 3 | West Ham was an area adjacent to East London where formal politics during the 1920s came to be dominated by the Labour Party to an extent experienced in few other areas of the country . |
| 4 | The death of Elizabeth in 1603 resulted in few immediate changes in the English church . |
| 5 | Against this , J.H. Gagnon and William Simon have argued in their book Sexual Conduct that sexuality is subject to ‘ socio-cultural moulding to a degree surpassed by few other forms of human behaviour ’ , and in so arguing they are building both on a century of sex research and on a century of questioning the notion of ‘ natural man ’ . |