Example sentences of "[prep] relatively few [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The very young Aplysia has a nervous system consisting of relatively few neurons , while the period of onset of the capacity to show sensitization as a behavioural phenomenon matches that of a great increase in neuronal number ; yet if all that sensitization required was the facilitatory response in a set of three neurons of the network described earlier , it is hard to see why , by contrast with habituation , it should be dependent on such an increase in neuronal number . |
| 2 | The effect of relatively few firearms had been devastating against a warrior race with no previous experience of them . |
| 3 | As in all participatory schemes , there is a risk of middle class bias in parental representation on governing bodies , with the evidence pointing to the active involvement of relatively few parents . |
| 4 | Even among the Europeans mass intercontinental migration was confined to the people of relatively few countries , in this period overwhelmingly to the British , the Irish and the Germans , and , from the 1860s on , the Norwegians and Swedes — the Danes never emigrated to the same extent — whose small numbers conceal the enormous relative size of their demographic drain . |
| 5 | Nevertheless , the Japanese , with relatively few elements of their three-million strong army , achieved more rapid success than they had expected : by 11 January 1942 they had occupied the Celebes ; on 4 February the Allies on Amboina surrendered ; on 15 February Singapore fell , and on 19–20 February Timor was invaded , the main force of its defenders surrendering a few days later . |
| 6 | Thank you very much well it 's always a pleasure to hear of about the Seamanship Foundation and I 'm sure that , as you might be saying , and er the need for the foundation 's fundraising will be rather heightened this year as a result of last year 's drop but I 'm equally sure that you will get a tremendous amount of support from the members and on that note which I think is er also is an important method of concentrating our priorities and on the basis of we 're extremely lucky to be able to pursue a really very enjoyable pastime with relatively few problems and that if we can get those opportunities to many more , who would otherwise not be able to enjoy and in fact frequently do n't get to enjoy any other pastime , we should endeavour to do so and consider ourselves lucky that we can . |
| 7 | Archaeology therefore has the ability to impose , with relatively few complications , the particular contemporary boundaries of the nation-state upon its findings , and to identify these as the prehistory of Germany or Italy . |
| 8 | The range of Fairy Basslets is considerable , each species delightful in its own particular way , but with relatively few species readily identifiable from hobbyist books . |
| 9 | The majority of the company 's employees worked at this home plant , with relatively few workers located at other plants . |
| 10 | At present , with relatively few computers in schools this will be a problem , but hopefully in the future there will be plenty of computer time available . |
| 11 | Ceauşescu 's distancing himself from his fellow countrymen , whether for reasons of security or hygiene , meant that his daily life involved him in regular contact with relatively few people . |
| 12 | There are still plenty of waters with relatively few people on them and some of them contain some eye opening fish . |
| 13 | While newer recruits prefer to pin their faith on an ‘ objective ’ , ‘ scientific ’ conception of pollution standards which should — in theory at least — be rigorously applied , the older men , with relatively few exceptions , prefer to ‘ be reasonable ’ and to ‘ understand the polluter 's problems ’ . |
| 14 | In these studies , multiple treatment variables with relatively few patients in each risk factor group have precluded detection of changes in the healing rate associated with non-pharmacological risk factors whose effects are usually smaller than those due to ulcer therapy . |
| 15 | Against the background of almost zero national population growth in the 1970s and 1980s , this has produced a mosaic of both absolute growth and absolute decline across Britain with relatively few places maintaining a static population size . |
| 16 | On April 22 Rauf Denktash obtained 67.5 per cent of the vote to be re-elected President of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus ( TRNC , recognised only by Turkey ) , with relatively few voting for candidates of opposition parties which wanted to offer more concessions to the Greek Cypriots . |
| 17 | Cross-tabulation confirms this , with relatively few items not positively related to this issue . |
| 18 | Still in relatively few numbers , and luckily it seems mostly enthusiasts — the tourists have n't blazed a trail to the top of Donard in the way they have on Snowdon or Nevis . |
| 19 | The general fears of high oil prices , debt defaults and possible massive disruption of communications links through terrorist activities resulted in relatively few stock markets making any overall gain by the end of the year on their January 1990 positions . |
| 20 | Much of the expansion in manufacturing employment in the global system since the 1950s has come from relatively few industries , such as automobiles , electronics , textiles , household goods , and toys . |
| 21 | So land vertebrates in particular tend to come from relatively few sites , which become exhaustively collected compared with most invertebrate localities . |
| 22 | It might be imprudent to attach strong significance to compositional variations that are based on relatively few data , particularly when the trends identified occur in diagrams for which mixing curves are not necessarily linear ( Figs 1–3 ) . |
| 23 | For risk ratings above about eight this appears to demonstrate a fairly clear inverted-U relationship , however , it should be remembered that higher points on the risk scale are based on relatively few data points . |
| 24 | By comparison , due to relatively few papers in major Australian cities , there is more time on assignments for less photographers . |
| 25 | Stories about being better off out of work apply only to relatively few people , those with large families and particularly exploitative employers . |
| 26 | If the Port is indeed the landscape listed in the catalogue , it is the first surviving Cubist painting to have been seen in a large public exhibition ( the Braque exhibition in the previous year had been at Kahnweiler 's gallery which was small and at that time known to relatively few people ) . |
| 27 | An inverted file is the usual choice , but when there are many attributes , each of which is used by relatively few records , it will be worth considering multilist files . |
| 28 | This measure effectively makes competitive tendering compulsory for designated services , replacing the former ( largely discretionary ) powers which had been used by relatively few authorities in specific areas ( Ascher , 1987 , especially ch. 7 ; Stoker , 1988 ) . |
| 29 | From Wagner 's results we would conclude , however , that building competitive position or market share is really successfully achieved by relatively few businesses . |
| 30 | A large proportion of closure and redundancy decisions are made by relatively few employers . |