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

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1 He was heading for a desolate inland area in the north-east , a region without large cities and with few towns , a flat endless landscape of black earth , dotted with primitive cottages made of sods of turf and sticks .
2 Some plants , most notably grasses , can be consumed without much difficulty and with few penalties , but a surprising number defend themselves .
3 I was n't a particularly happy person at the time ; lonely , in a rather dead-end job and with few personal relationships .
4 At the centre , community care has been talked of for thirty years and in few areas can the gap between political rhetoric and policy on the one hand , or between policy and reality in the field on the other hand , have been so great .
5 The frequency with which the operation is carried out depends upon the plants involved and the compost or soil in which they were originally planted , but its need becomes apparent when the leaves of the plant become yellowish and get progressively smaller , and the blooms are of poor colour and with few petals .
6 The third common explanation suggested that growing up in a white racist society and with few positive black public images created low self-esteem and self-concept in black children which in turn led to poor performance in schools .
7 They are square in plan and rise sheer to varying heights without ornament , abutment and with few openings .
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