Example sentences of "to the few " in BNC.
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| 1 | A travel company from Thailand has contacted the People 's Committee about the possibility of bringing in tourists , and the governor of the province , An He , is keen to talk to the few foreigners who pass through about his hypothetical Riviera . |
| 2 | Its success is almost invariably limited to the few cases where free advice enables a businessman to make immediate cost savings . |
| 3 | Further on the Brook splits , and one tributary leads to the few remnants of what was Upper Ley Mill . |
| 4 | If , in addition to the few notes which I have taken the liberty of enclosing , you feel that you need any advice , then please ask for it . |
| 5 | Her world had shrunk to the few things which still had interest for her . |
| 6 | In contrast to the few pet names moving through the bynames stage to become established hereditary surnames , there are dozens of diminutives which successfully made the transition , and an example of the surnames coined from but one font-name is sufficient to make the point : from Richard ( Reaney , as above ) come almost thirty styles including Rich , Richie , Hitch , Hitchcock , Higgins , Hicks , Dick , Dickie and Diggen . |
| 7 | By last month tens of thousands of people were on the road to the few relief centres that the government runs . |
| 8 | Should we listen to the few objections of the few people affected ? |
| 9 | Most people who notice it at parties are too polite to ask what it is and why I am wearing it , but to the few who do I say ( because I find it embarrassing to explain ) that it is concerned with the story of the sinking of the Bismarck ; and then relish the look of puzzlement on their faces . |
| 10 | A LONE Spitfire flew over the RAF 's most famous base yesterday in a final salute to The Few . |
| 11 | From Poolewe , a narrow road follows the coast to the headland west of Loch Ewe but is of interest only to the few residents alongside it , and visitors invariably continue on the A.832 to Gairloch , this road also having been brought up to modern standards . |
| 12 | Finally the road turns away and makes a long and rough descent , with Loch Hourn dramatically in view ahead , to the few buildings of Kinlochhourn where there is life but no sign of it . |
| 13 | So he sat still and let her talk , murmuring answers to the few questions she asked him , trying to memorize details that might be important . |
| 14 | Rather than give young children charcoal immediately on presentation , we suggest confining it to the few who develop symptoms — in a dose sufficient to increase elimination of the drug . |
| 15 | He also thinks that we must develop a culture that demands certain standards from all teachers and accords high status to the few who choose to develop their teaching skills further . |
| 16 | Give all power to the few , they will oppress the many . " |
| 17 | The electronic cameras captured the action , and powerful transmitters beamed the signals directly to the few homes in Britain equipped with television receivers . |
| 18 | Clearly , governments should take this feature of human nature into consideration when formulating tax plans , for it is a sad fact of fiscal life that as soon as new tax is devised an army of tax-avoidance experts is assembled : Though helpful to the few , they are counter-productive for the country as a whole . |
| 19 | At my first event in Fort Worth , I had held on to the few people I knew as though for dear life , terrified at the thought of being stranded in this great wilderness . |
| 20 | It was not a good year for them to start with , and this year 's explosion in grey squirrel numbers seems to have put paid to the few that did form . |
| 21 | That is not necessarily so in relation to the few surviving companies limited by guarantee and having a share capital.z And there is no inherent reason why it should be so with companies limited by shares ; indeed a very sensible method of promoting voluntary ‘ co-determination ’ would be to provide means whereby employees could become members without also having to buy shares in the company , thus risking the loss of their savings as well as their jobs if their employer-company becomes insolvent . |
| 22 | They can be shown to range from sites entirely dependent upon the main road frontages , through those which developed a system of irregular internal streets and lanes , to the few with some form of organized street plan . |
| 23 | He smiled and she pulled her robe tightly round her ; the bathroom that had seemed quite large had shrunk to the few feet between them . |
| 24 | These instruments then provide a pseudo-scientific basis for giving most of the educational goodies to the few who can ‘ benefit ’ from them . |
| 25 | And despite their higher incomes , they rarely become rich because their activities are limited to the few months during the year when the climate is favourable for construction work . |
| 26 | I can swear to every pie I have swallowed , to every cup of sack I have gulped , to the few good women I have met and , thankfully , to every bad woman I have slept with . |
| 27 | It is no good operating a policy of laissez-faire , and leaving the task to the few hard-pressed London boroughs . |
| 28 | We know the reason local bargaining is being encouraged , it 's to lower wages and conditions and give rich financial benefits to the few . |
| 29 | For Mill it 's very important that citizens are educated for their role and although participation on a na national level has to be something that can be restricted only to the few , Mill nevertheless wants active participation of the citizens in other aspects . |
| 30 | That evening revealed a petulance Hugh Paddick had not known before , but which would become quite familiar to the few Williams intimates . |