Example sentences of "[prep] the few [noun pl] [conj] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of the few studies that have taken account of gender suggest that Afro-Caribbean girls are achieving higher levels than boys at school level , partly because they are pursuing different strategies , which are necessary in order to survive in the context of high unemployment and low wages for black male workers ( Fuller , 1983 ; see also Riley , 1986 ; Driver , 1977 ) . |
| 2 | This reflects the so-called doctrine of double effect which was incorporated into English law in one of the few cases that have been decided in this area , R v. |
| 3 | ‘ They are one of the few teams that have come here and attacked us and they did a good job , ’ he said . |
| 4 | It involves one of the few regulators that have shown some teeth in standing up to the powers that have been conferred by the Government on privatised British Gas . |
| 5 | But I am going to having said that I will tell you of the few accidents that have occurred over the years , and one of them was mine in the early days when I was learning th the full size removal job . |
| 6 | The evidence from the few areas that have been bored or surveyed geophysically supports this view , but other evidence does not fit so well . |
| 7 | Such a strategy recognizes both the negative attitudes of local planners to industrial development in the open countryside and also the advantages of concentrating investment in infrastructure in the few locations that have reasonably large labour markets . |
| 8 | In the few weeks that have gone by a boy from the village has been killed by an elephant . |