Example sentences of "in few [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In few cases in the later eighteenth century did it extend to improving the housing of the urban poor , crammed in their squalid suburbs in Chichester and Lewes or in the back yards , behind the better houses , in Battle . |
| 2 | Legislation has intruded on free contracting in few cases ; particular types of clauses in consumer contracts are rendered ineffective , and in some cases contracting must be in prescribed form . |
| 3 | In few cases was the curriculum criticized adversely , but in one or two cases a particular course was questioned in terms of how appropriate it was for the pupils , or because an aspect of the curriculum was underdeveloped . |
| 4 | In few cases a dispersal agent does deliver a seed directly to such a target other than by chance . |
| 5 | In few studies have the higher moments been used to advantage , the principal exception being that of Sly ( 1977 , 1978 ) who used the skewness — kurtosis interrelationships to recognize differing environmental energy levels in deposits of the Great Lakes ( Fig. 3.1() ) . |
| 6 | He expressed interest in few things in life beyond music , and the purchase of a series of improbably fast and expensive motor cars . |
| 7 | In few periods in early Ottoman history can that need have been felt more strongly than in the years following Ankara . |
| 8 | In most of the present liberal-democratic countries it required many decades of agitation and organization , and in few countries was anything like it achieved until late in the nineteenth century . |
| 9 | The following day we could knock it off in few hours before returning to base . |
| 10 | At the centre , community care has been talked of for thirty years and in few areas can the gap between political rhetoric and policy on the one hand , or between policy and reality in the field on the other hand , have been so great . |
| 11 | Welcome back : In few minutes … the residents of Henley who leave town every year to escape the Regatta.But first , with the sport , here 's Tim . |
| 12 | While this is due in small measure to the axing of TOPS awards and the establishment of new courses leading to post-graduate diplomas which have attracted students who would otherwise have enrolled on a DMS course , the main reason has been the decline in the economy which has resulted in few companies being willing to sponsor students to undertake the course . |
| 13 | MESSAGE BEGINS STOP EGG NOW LAID AND INCUBATING NICELY STOP EXPECT HATCHING IN FEW WEEKS STOP SUGGEST YOU CONTACT AVIARY AND BEGIN SELECTING SPECIMEN STOP TUES 1100 EST STOP MANVILLE APD/ 3700925/WP MESSAGE ENDS |
| 14 | Overt unknowns are completely absent from the lexicon , for example a word such as Maastricht , despite the frequency of recent use , exists in few lexicons . |
| 15 | Handbells , although very common in the United States , are to be found in few churches in this country , except where they are used by bellringers in connection with change-ringing . |
| 16 | For the hundreds of thousands of Spanish — and non-Spanish — democrats and leftists who fought and died in the Civil War or in the horrendous repression that followed , the forces against which they struggled differed in few essentials from those that had recently brought dictatorship and oppression to Italy , Germany and Austria . |
| 17 | In few places are the results of the explorations of Sweeney Agonistes clearer than in his 1927 attack on Lawrence whom he sees as fatally humourless . |
| 18 | Not only the peerage but many of the more prosperous country squires in the eighteenth century came to maintain houses in their local market towns , to serve both the needs of trade and of society ; as Joseph Seagrave remarked in 1804 , ‘ the domestic building in every part of the kingdom , is greatly improved within the last forty or fifty years ; but in few places more than Chichester ’ . |