Example sentences of "and [adv] few " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is a piece with few reasons to be a film , and mercifully few pretensions to cinematic status . |
| 2 | But salaries are largely irrelevant in Angola , because there is so much money and so few things to buy . |
| 3 | The attention of the news media was firmly focused on the Falklands , and so few accounts of disturbances in British cities were reported . |
| 4 | By the same token , cinemas had no operators , and so few halls remained open . |
| 5 | Children who were identified with a dangerous or destructive person in the parent 's life and so few limits were set on their behaviour . |
| 6 | The price to urban consumers of bearing the losses incurred ( probably of the order of 2 per cent of their bills ) would have been considered by many to be an acceptable concession to the aspirations of country dwellers , and perhaps few would have endorsed the complaint by a contemporary free-market economist that ‘ a slum dweller has to contribute to the cost of providing electricity for a country mansion ’ . |
| 7 | It was rare for the painter to be able to do his own engraving , and conversely few engravers were artists in their own right . |
| 8 | Although this behaviour was widely condemned and probably few , if any , students took part , the nationalistic sentiments and feelings of frustration with the condition of modern China were not isolated phenomena . |
| 9 | Hardly anyone can have learned both to read and to write and probably few learned even to read just by attending Sunday classes . |
| 10 | Consequently , subjects were dealt with so intricately and thoroughly few ever read them . |
| 11 | The highest numbers usually occur in August , particularly in the first half , and comparatively few Whimbrel are seen in September . |
| 12 | Nowhere was there a clothier of the stamp of Spring , or even Winchcombe , and comparatively few of major stature . |
| 13 | No one ( thank God ! ) says sex must stop and comparatively few favour the wilder flights of permissive fantasy . |
| 14 | The production industry was much less active during the war than it had been before , producing an average of only 69 films annually , and as few as 46 in 1942 . |
| 15 | Preparations for pregnancy can begin six months or more before conception with a healthy diet — plenty of fresh fruit and vegetables , preferably organically grown and as few chemicals in the form of food additives as is possible . |
| 16 | Barker 's ( 1984 , p. 22 ) review of the living arrangements of elderly people of Asian and Afro-Caribbean origin indicates that almost three-quarters of Asian elderly people live in large households and as few as 5 per cent live alone , whereas the household composition of elderly people of Afro-Caribbean origin is similar to that in the white population . |
| 17 | The main point to make , however , is that few teachers consciously build in such skills when planning resource-based exercises , and regrettably few teachers could either articulate the nine simple points above or even demonstrate very convincingly their own abilities in a library setting . |
| 18 | Big can be beautiful , and surprisingly few of the buildings here display the empty pedantry conspicuous in contemporary paintings and sculpture . |
| 19 | Even in his very early and surprisingly few organ ricercari — notably the one del 8. tono on three closely worked subjects , and the one del 10. tono ( of which the one del 9. tono is essentially a shortened version ) where a canzon theme alternates with a motive worked in almost too facile descending sequences — Giovanni enters a different world from his uncle 's ricercari ; the last traces of the ‘ instrumental motet ’ have been erased . |
| 20 | And then it may become very angry , and then few would he strong enough to hang on to that leg ! |
| 21 | Or he could start his own venue , impose his own narrow-minded door policy and see how few people turn up and how few bands agree to play . |
| 22 | Your ride to Lincoln will probably illustrate how awful long-distance cycling in Britain can be , and how few facilities are provided . |
| 23 | Or he could start his own venue , impose his own narrow-minded door policy and see how few people turn up and how few bands agree to play . |
| 24 | Nevertheless , the whole basis of survey work is one of trust and relatively few interviewers abuse this trust . |
| 25 | The majority of the pavements were wide enough to pass pedestrians easily in a wheelchair and relatively few problems were encountered . |
| 26 | There was in the UK only a moderate amount of vocational training and relatively few people with formal technical qualifications . |
| 27 | This created a relatively youthful population with large numbers of young people ( some of whom of course would die before full adulthood ) and relatively few people over the age of 50 . |
| 28 | The culturally conservative world of commerce and industry was hardly more attractive , and relatively few noblemen combined the capital , the ability , and the inclination to find satisfaction in serf-based farming . |
| 29 | Published in an edition of 5,000 , this is clearly aimed at a precise , limited audience of mainly dealers ( for whom the catalogue raisonné will prove invaluable ) , museums and relatively few collectors and scholars . |
| 30 | The greatest number of Contracting States have designated their Ministries of Justice ( or some organ of the Ministry , for example the French Ministry 's specialist bureau de l'entraide judiciaire internationale ) ; a substantial group of countries have placed the Central Authority within the courts service ( for example the Netherlands ' designation of the Officier van Justitie or public prosecutor attached to the District Court of The Hague ) ; and relatively few have retained the Foreign Ministry . |