Example sentences of "to few [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now this picture leads to few complications if the action is playing the piano or playing tennis … |
| 2 | At the beginning of 1991 Airtours had a 6% share of the package holiday market and a brand name known to few south of Birmingham ( it is based in Lancashire and two-thirds of bookings come from the Midlands and North ) . |
| 3 | The study revealed that growth of Asian businesses was confined to few areas and , although this had been rapid during the 1970s , it had been declining recently . |
| 4 | Politicians cling to the rhetoric of socialism while supporting a system which delivers great riches to few businessmen , and profitable cuts to the civil servants and politicians who hand out licences . |
| 5 | He was the first gold medal winner ( 1902 ) of the Institution of Mining and Metallurgy , his obituary in Nature noting : ‘ It is given to few men to discover a process which has had such a far-reaching effect in almost every branch of civilised life . ’ |
| 6 | Famed for its gentle , artistic people and elaborately performed ceremonies , the Island of the Gods , Lombok is a mere fifteen minute flight from Bali , but unlike her close sister , this island has been exposed to few tourists . |
| 7 | In ‘ the old days ’ field officers ( at least in the southern authority ) enjoyed a high degree of personal contact with their superiors and were subjected to few demands from headquarters : |
| 8 | Montague owns up to few mistakes . |
| 9 | That commodities such as simple sardine or anchovy butter which we had hitherto regarded as sandwich fillings , egg dishes which belonged to the breakfast table , the bed-sitting room or the night club , and little hot dishes which were ordinary English family supper savouries were valuable resources which could be quite differently deployed and offered as party dishes were ideas which had occurred to few people in pre-Boulestin days : |
| 10 | Why did graptoloids have an evolutionary trend from many branches to few branches ? |
| 11 | This may be achieved with careful allocation of charge codes to users for reserving module names ( there is no harm in having many as opposed to few charge codes ) , and use of the LIFESPAN database management facilities like offline and module version deletion . |
| 12 | The question enrages China , which gobbled up Tibet in 1951 ( to few protests at the time ) . |
| 13 | Originally , most English vineyards contained the dull Müller-Thurgau grape , produced years ago by cropping the classic but late-ripening Riesling with the workhorse Sylvaner to produce a grape that appealed to few drinkers . |