Example sentences of "so few [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The attention of the news media was firmly focused on the Falklands , and so few accounts of disturbances in British cities were reported . |
| 2 | The conference illustrated why so few doctors manage to reach a position where they can apply for the senior fellowships and professorships , but answers were less forthcoming . |
| 3 | Since so few doctors possess such skills , perhaps we can learn them from teachers outside the medical profession ( at least until there is a sufficiently large body of trained teachers within the profession ) . |
| 4 | I think it is strange that he has had so few affairs and he is 30-years-old , ’ she says . |
| 5 | Strategically , it would be close to the worst of all worlds : expensive , because of the Midgetman , and not very invulnerable because there are so few missiles ( and they would not be ready until the next century ) . |
| 6 | The Thirties Society has tried to counteract the brewers ' failure to understand the potential assets represented by their 20th century buildings , but since so few pubs are listed many cases escape our notice . |
| 7 | ‘ So many questions , Sir John , so few answers . |
| 8 | So many suspects , yet so few answers . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Despite research into some aspects of the error propagation issue in spatial data processing ( e.g. Blakemore 1984 ; Chrisman 1984 ; Drummond 1987 ; Goodchild and Dubuc 1987 ; Walsh et al. 1987 ) , Burrough ( 1986:103 ) correctly points out that ‘ It is remarkable that there have been so few studies on the whole problem of residual variation and how errors arise , or are created and propagated in geographical information processing , and what the effects of these errors might be on the results of studies made . ’ |
| 11 | There are so few positions available to us above grade C it seems unfair that we are being penalised for taking more responsibility for less remuneration . |
| 12 | There was so much space , so much silence , so few meetings that one too easily saw out of the present , and then the past seemed ten times closer than it was . |
| 13 | But afterwards I felt … so few runs needed to beat Hutton . ’ |
| 14 | She checks them out carefully through face-to-face interviews and obtains references , but is still surprised that so few customers ask her any questions about her sitters . |
| 15 | ‘ At the moment though , with so few experts in this field , underwater sites will come forward for consideration far less often than land sites . |
| 16 | Welsh coach Clive Griffiths said : ‘ With so few players to choose from , we are always on a knife edge . |
| 17 | It was ironic that such a prolific man should have so few grandchildren . |
| 18 | That so few boilers in the UK would have met the tougher standards would have provided an excellent opportunity for new , cost-reducing investment . |
| 19 | Nevertheless , when it came to seeking allies in Congress , Carter 's position was much weakened , first , by the fact that so few members had any reason to be grateful to the president for their election and , second , because he had so conspicuously run against the existing political order which included , of course , Congress . |
| 20 | I was going to say that everyo ebs absolutely everyone is against war but not many people actually joined the United Nations after the war for a very small subscription or not many groups of people have many members in it , and of course because there were so few members in it , they a they went one particular way which a lot of people that had joined did n't agree with and so they came out of it . |
| 21 | There is no reason to suppose , however , that unemployment among this group creates so few problems that we can ignore it . |
| 22 | I 'll do a complete costing on it but I think er the only thing is of course there are so few agents total . |
| 23 | Hugh Despenser the younger had already petitioned the king on the grounds that the charges against him were erroneous and his condemnation illegal , particularly because so few prelates were present in the parliament which gave judgement . |
| 24 | Profits are restrained , but the minimum wage moves in line with inflation , so few investments are made . |
| 25 | However , unlike the position in England — where the Partnerships controlled so few resources directly — the SDA had its own funds to help expedite the strategy . |
| 26 | As one of the best records of 1990 it was actually a lucky escape that it sold so few copies , missed Top Of The Pops , slipped the chance of a slot on youth TV and lost the chase for Sunday newspaper publicity . |
| 27 | Recent productions like Ian McNamara 's Letter to Allan Border and Mike Brady 's The Game is Not the Same Without McGilvray slot alongside the revived Our Don Bradman and Our Eleven ( 1930 ) , both sung by Art Leonard , and Bradman 's How It 's Done and ( piano solo ) Our Bungalow of Dreams , components of the precious old 78rpm of 1930 , of which so few copies survive . |
| 28 | He ducked down the back stairs — glad , for once , that there were so few lights working along the landings — as his visitors strode towards the front . |
| 29 | A wide variety of events are planned including the ‘ ICM Thespians ’ in a playlet , talks on the changing role of the County Court , why so few directors ' disqualifications , and legal updates , in addition to social events and , of course , the AGM . |
| 30 | Government authorities blandly suggest that it may not be quite that long because there may soon be so few salmon to net that the sea fishermen will pack in their licences as they will be uncommercial . |