Example sentences of "be few [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are few north of Bramber and Hailsham . |
| 2 | It also tends to reduce the scope for independent software firms : there are few software houses not working for the computer manufacturers . |
| 3 | There are few film directors who can resist a good car chase . |
| 4 | This identification and sense of hope are technically possible in the home situation or in hospital but here is a serious risk that family members or medical and nursing staff will , by their own concerned actions intended to help the sufferer to eat , actually thereby enable the addictive disease to continue : there are few hinge the disease likes more than getting other people ( rather than the primary sufferer ) to take responsibility . |
| 5 | There are few aquarium fish which are so uniformly peaceful and easily-maintained as the rasboras . |
| 6 | ‘ I 've done 35 Cowes Weeks and nine Fastnets , ’ said Simms , ‘ There are few yachting challenges left to me except , say , the America Cup . ’ |
| 7 | This has not removed the danger of war but it has certainly perverted the concept of defence — there are few defence systems which are not actually war machines . |
| 8 | We are not used to such notions and there are few world religions that still offer ‘ sacrifices ’ . |
| 9 | In central Australia there are few mountain ranges but a large proportion of land is perfect for sheep farming with the ground being 0–1000m . |
| 10 | There are few party political policies or strategies that apply to tourism . |
| 11 | AS the weather causes chaos with the fixture list there are few betting propositions on offer , but the final event of the day at Nottingham this afternoon is worth waiting for . |
| 12 | As for the physical appearance of the people who left behind their stone tools and food refuse , Singer and Wymer can say little because , compared with animal bones , there are few human remains in the deposits and they are mostly fragments of skulls and jawbones and teeth . |
| 13 | There are few community councils in Wales which do not have some area of countryside or open ground where nature flourishes , be it inland or on the coast . |
| 14 | THERE are few sporting events which capture everyone 's imagination . |
| 15 | Psychiatrists may increasingly be working alongside general practitioners , but there are few training posts in community psychiatry . |
| 16 | There have been few community based studies of mortality in Crohn 's disease . |
| 17 | There have been few repayment defaults . |
| 18 | If central government , as a matter of policy , curtails the building of new local authority houses then , within a very short time , there will be few council houses available locally for allocation . |
| 19 | We searched for examples around the country but found there were few operating in the National Health Service . |
| 20 | Certainly at the time of the 1968 Act there were few cheque cards or credit cards . |
| 21 | So although the absence of key workers in Newham meant that there were few boundary disputes , it also meant that the development officer could become very closely involved in organising other services , and perhaps feel that other services took advantage of the Home Support Project and showed less involvement than would have been necessary without the project . |
| 22 | There were few electricity disconnections , not surprising since heat and hot water were provided by gas , but nearly a fifth of the households surveyed had had their gas cut off . |
| 23 | Until recently , there were few radiocarbon results for material directly associated with Beaker pottery . |
| 24 | Nevertheless , cultivators and labourers were drawn from all castes , and there were few caste monopolies . |
| 25 | There were few air raids in 1942 and 1943 and a more or less normal tram service could be maintained in Croydon . |
| 26 | In contrast to the previous month there were few air raids on Liverpool in April and although the warning sounded several times , no bombs were dropped until the twenty-sixth of the month . |
| 27 | True , there were few creature comforts behind the wheel and few concessions from the car itself once you were on the move . |
| 28 | Nevertheless , the high reliability of most of the new postwar plant , together with the policy of keeping very old plant in service virtually until it dropped apart ( there were few plant retirements in this period ) was sufficient for the National Grid Control to maintain a supply , albeit with immense efforts from the operating staff during the winter peaks , when virtually all available plant had to be maintained in readiness . |
| 29 | There were few peasant proprietors ( perhaps six per cent. ) but tenant farmers enjoyed the best customary tenure outside Catalonia and the Basque Provinces ; if rents were higher , the tenant could not be evicted ; he was compensated for improvement and his rents settled by arbitration . |
| 30 | This exercise suggested that there were few class differences in community nurse use or acute hospital care . |