Example sentences of "by [adv] few " in BNC.
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| 1 | Physics was chosen as a representative subject , not only because it is studied by so few women , and is therefore a typically masculine discipline , but also because it tends to be regarded as the most objective , rigorous and , indeed , successful of the pure sciences . |
| 2 | By now few proposals could be judged on their merits , only according to which national group put them forward ( or rather , each proposal was identified as if it were no more than the product of a national group ) . |
| 3 | But the narrow out-crops on either side of Scotland have been honoured by comparatively few publications , though their story is much more exciting . |
| 4 | Once again competitive prices were highly ranked by comparatively few DGMs ( 24 per cent ) though the same proportion of respondents were experiencing problems in obtaining comparative cost data as in the first year . |
| 5 | While it may be virtually abolished on the first night by as few as four or five wakenings , on subsequent nights REM " pressure " increases , and successively more wakenings are required , as the number of times REM sleep is initiated is increased . |
| 6 | New political parties , and other types of public association such as trade unions , could be set up by as few as 10 people . |
| 7 | Investigations — fundoscopy , serum potassium , and chest radiography — varied substantially , up to one quarter of physicians rounded the blood pressure reading up to 10 mm Hg , and although risk factor intervention was said to be important , cholesterol measurement was done by as few as 27% of clinicians . |
| 8 | It entails moreover the risk that if the list is long voting will tend to be little more than a popularity poll , with most votes heavily concentrated on the best-known candidates , leaving the election of others to be decided by relatively few votes , cast by electors probably unrepresentative of the electorate as a whole . |
| 9 | An inverted file is the usual choice , but when there are many attributes , each of which is used by relatively few records , it will be worth considering multilist files . |
| 10 | A large proportion of closure and redundancy decisions are made by relatively few employers . |
| 11 | This measure effectively makes competitive tendering compulsory for designated services , replacing the former ( largely discretionary ) powers which had been used by relatively few authorities in specific areas ( Ascher , 1987 , especially ch. 7 ; Stoker , 1988 ) . |
| 12 | From Wagner 's results we would conclude , however , that building competitive position or market share is really successfully achieved by relatively few businesses . |
| 13 | Our experimental findings show how the subjects were working through these : in the first repetition , ( a ) was attempted rather amateurishly and ( b ) invoked by relatively few ; in the second repetition , many were beginning to apply ( a ) successively ( many put output in period eight equal to 250 which is where marginal cost equals expected price ) , many more were applying ( b ) and a sizeable number ( enough to effect our regression and probit results ) were invoking both ( c ) and ( d ) , though understandably the ( c ) effects were more pronounced . |
| 14 | A small number of other subjects offered by relatively few applicants ( particularly in the areas of languages and mathematics ) are also counted as approved subjects . |
| 15 | And if one could even name it , its name would only ever be understood by very few persons . |
| 16 | The contents are secret and have been seen in their entirety by very few officers below the rank of Assistant Chief Constable . |
| 17 | But the dozens of optical and radio observatories on the ground are complemented by very few astronomy satellites . |
| 18 | They reached the third round in four consecutive years , a feat equalled by very few lower division clubs at the time . |
| 19 | When radio arrived in Africa its potential was recognized by very few . |
| 20 | Making a clean break is easier too ; critical acceleration between 40–60 mph and 50–70 mph can be matched by very few cars indeed . |
| 21 | It says this limited functionality option could be used ‘ by very few , if any , users developing production applications . |
| 22 | It says this limited functionality option could be used ‘ by very few , if any , users developing production applications . |
| 23 | In the nineteenth century , most land in Britain was owned by very few landowners . |
| 24 | His language was one spoken by very few foreigners , and indeed Latin had remained the learned tongue there as in Germany . |
| 25 | In the Habsburg States Maria Theresa displayed a courage and tenacity equalled by very few eighteenth-century rulers , while her son Joseph II , whatever his faults , did not lack energy and public spirit . |
| 26 | Applications of artificial intelligence based systems were envisaged by very few . |
| 27 | Well , by very few people . |
| 28 | Industries dominated by very few giant firms may be ferociously competitive ; these few firms may invest at very high rates , as in Japan . |
| 29 | This tends to compound problems caused by too few tokens ( cf. 6.8.2 ) . |