Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] few [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Thus circumgranular ( or rim ) cements ( Fig. 5.24a ) form where there are many nucleation sites on a sediment grain , whereas poikilotopic cements ( Fig. 5.24b ) are the result of few nucleation sites and , in general , slower crystal growth .
2 In other cases , strong feelings have been aroused , and there has been one electronic punch-up. stated quite reasonably that Sheffield United are crap , and Julie Donnelly , a list member with Blade tendencies , told him what she thought of that in many words of few syllables .
3 It is a piece with few reasons to be a film , and mercifully few pretensions to cinematic status .
4 Bare heads with few feathers enable them to reach into carcases of dead animals without becoming matted with blood .
5 May British courses are constructed on exposed land adjacent to the sea , or on rugged heathland with few trees .
6 Why did graptoloids have an evolutionary trend from many branches to few branches ?
7 Government subsidies were also , in effect , greater for higher-density development ( subject to Parker Morris minimum standards ) , and all these factors have combined to militate against the building of few dwellings and small estates in isolated locations .
8 And it was here , after the house-warming party which began with hours of few arrivals and long silences , that she and Hugh had finished what was left of the Carafino and found themselves in the narrow bed in the basement where this dramatically argumentative child had been conceived .
9 Sarah came through the first week of marriage with few hopes of real happiness , though she was pleased enough with her elevated circumstances .
10 Barron and Norris ( 1976 ) suggest that the labour market is divided into two segments — a primary sector which provides skilled , secure work at good levels of pay which is reached by long promotion ladders , and a secondary sector characterized by unskilled , insecure work with few promotion prospects and low levels of pay ( see figure 4.6 ) .
11 Some schools in affluent industrial districts could profit from the scheme while those in rural areas with few companies nearby would have little chance of extra support .
12 Will the Minister therefore consider a way to equalise national sponsorship from business , so that areas with few opportunities can derive some of the benefits from areas with ample opportunities ?
13 It is particularly important to remote rural areas with few employment opportunities and to industrial areas experiencing high unemployment .
14 Some urban estates , partly as a result of allocation policies , are effectively one-class areas with few examples of success , clearly labelled by their architecture and appearance is distinct from the rest of society .
15 They decided to move on to Muscle Bay , which provided Gould with few prizes .
16 Only Haynes and Logie put up much resistance and 154 all out , with conditions improving all the time , presented England with few problems ; had the situation been reversed , one knew that West Indies would have won by eight or nine wickets , but English fans were happy enough to have six still in hand .
17 One reason the central bank has been able to keep money tight is that the victims of bankruptcy have so far been mainly property- or finance-related companies with few employees .
18 A wealthy lifestyle is likely to be reflected in a site yielding many finds of high quality ; sites with few finds of a consistently poor quality suggest a relatively low standard of living .
19 They will generally consider construction developments only on prime sites with few planning problems , preferably a freehold pre-let scheme , using an established developer .
20 This simplicity is , of course , in many respects the precise object of their management , because energy and nutrients are thereby channelled as directly as possible into human consumption with few sidechains and reduction in the losses involved in transferring energy between trophic levels .
21 Another advantage of small chips with few address lines is that each cell of a chip only stores a very crude fragment of knowledge about the image on the retina .
22 Now the areas of sands and gravels have dry soils with few chemicals for crops .
23 Have you done it in the last sort of few weeks ?
24 An appropriate name for a drama group of few words but plenty of action .
25 Whatever Aachen may have been in the past , it has settled down now to being a prosperous commercial town with few pretensions .
26 It is an Accrington brick-built town with few pretensions and it no doubt contributed to saving Gedge from a terminal dose of wetness .
27 The other is dominated by workers with few skills , other than their willingness to work the hours required by their employers .
28 He had timed their arrival for early evening with few people around .
29 Both the French government and French farming unions traditionally favoured linking farm incomes mainly to prices rather than to " social handouts " ( although , according to the Financial Times of May 22 , there was in late 1991 " a growing realization by farming leaders that some kind of social help was needed to enable an ageing farming population with few successors to retire peacefully " ) .
30 The fear was that Britain 's population would decline rapidly , that it would be dominated by an aged population with few people of working age coupled with a rapidly decreasing birth rate .
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