Example sentences of "with [adv] few " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was an interesting if much too long meeting lasting from 2pm to about 6.15pm — but interesting in that , with rather few of us there , it was a chance to range over a whole lot of issues on and off the agenda , and a chance to appreciate the efforts , interests , aspirations and voluntary input of many others — though of course they get support from their activities from their employers . |
| 2 | Some managers who carry a smaller team of paid workers with only few volunteers have indeed shown support for the new breed of ‘ unemployed ’ worker , in order to broaden the CAB volunteer base . |
| 3 | I suspect that our generation , with so few and such honourable exceptions , knows less than theirs did . |
| 4 | With so few studies of the impact of severe floods on river life , knowing how typical the response of the Araglin is could be anybody 's guess . |
| 5 | In its zeal to relieve China 's embarrassment at hosting a party with so few guests , East Berlin sent two senior officials — Egon Krenz , a member of the Politburo , and Wolfgang Rachfuss , a member of the Central Committee . |
| 6 | However , the talents of her mind amply compensated for the defects of her person ; and if , with so few advantages , she was capable of writing with so much credit to herself , there can be no doubt but , if her career had been prolonged , she would have greatly distinguished herself in the annals of female literature [ |
| 7 | Theirs had been a terminally ill situation with so few worshippers in so large and expensive a building . |
| 8 | Welsh coach Clive Griffiths said : ‘ With so few players to choose from , we are always on a knife edge . |
| 9 | At that stage in his career no one was looking for a hit-machine : the longer heads realised that it was a difficult job to scale the face of Broadway — as it was in the West End — with so few footholds and even fewer helping ropes dangling down to give you a lift . |
| 10 | With so few black professionals in post , most pressure for anti-racist reforms has to come from a variety of sources , from white politicians or administrators or black pressure groups working in particular localities in conjunction with anti-racist teachers . |
| 11 | The bookshop was often watched by the British Authorities because of its known association with Irish sympathizers , but in this weather , with so few people about , any observer would be sure to stand out . |
| 12 | It was good to be in a class with so few girls ; there were just three of us among fourteen boys , and as a result we all became good friends without forming any sentimental attachments . |
| 13 | He turned back to the frying-pan , and she wondered how anyone could make her hackles rise with so few words . |
| 14 | ‘ At the moment though , with so few experts in this field , underwater sites will come forward for consideration far less often than land sites . |
| 15 | By the closing date there were only seven names on the list and although the cancellation of the event was unprecedented and most regrettable , it would have been quite impossible to fulfil the purpose of the day with so few . |
| 16 | ‘ The tanning process is a complicated business and it will not be possible with so few people . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ We are in business to make a profit and we can not do that with so few passengers . ’ |
| 18 | But on the other hand , if they are supposed to be representatives of our society , then there 's obviously something wrong , when there are so few women , compared with so few men . |
| 19 | But the problem still exists and Sylvia 's carer , Barbara Waddington says she believes with so few trains apparently unable to fit the wheelchair on to the train , British Rail ought to ensure that Sylvia can travel in more comfort . |
| 20 | Brazil , with its 150m people , is a very large country with astonishingly few national institutions that work properly . |
| 21 | They are capable of packing an immense amount of precise , digital information into a very small space ; and they are capable of preserving this information — with astonishingly few errors , but still some errors — for a very long time , measured in millions of years . |
| 22 | Earnings per share rise partly because the retained businesses are managed profitably , but mainly because the extra earnings are bought with disproportionately few extra issues of capital or debt . |
| 23 | I want to do this thing as well as it can be done , and with as few deaths as we can manage . |
| 24 | However , these problems of task allocation were all minor when compared with the driving force behind the system : getting the tasks completed as quickly and with as few staff as possible . |
| 25 | He considers taking an early flight because it is the quickest , doubts whether it will give him time to prepare and settles for the quickest later flight ; he wants to be bothered with as few suitcases as possible , starts packing the biggest he has , finds the lock broken and chooses another . |
| 26 | ‘ It must become more focused , concentrate its attention on the core issues , get agreement with them , with as few alternative versions as possible , and get these agreements enforced nationally . ’ |
| 27 | The initial concept of the T.4 was for a ‘ dual-control trainer with as few changes as possible ’ . |
| 28 | Some choirs function with as few as six . |
| 29 | All Léonie managed to discover from the postman 's hints was that the priest had had the bones taken away for a quick burial in the cemetery with as few people present as possible , and that people were still visiting the site of the apparitions , waiting to see whether Thérèse would go back . |
| 30 | Its members will be drawn mainly from the Commons ( the lower elected house ) , a few will be from the same party in the Lords ( the non-elected upper house ) and , although they remain in Parliament as MPs or peers , their role is very much as members of the executive , aiming to steer their programme through the assembly with as few complications or delays as possible . |