Example sentences of "[noun] and few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | True , there were few creature comforts behind the wheel and few concessions from the car itself once you were on the move . |
| 2 | Of course a woman should know her own mind and few men really relish a life with a clinging vine , but it can be taken too far . ’ |
| 3 | They have thereby developed few class allegiances and few commitments to large-scale theories about how society is , or should be , organised . |
| 4 | With its sounds of many cars and few birds , dawn faded . |
| 5 | Alternatively , it may be because particular educational placements have very limited opportunities and few resources for this kind of activity . |
| 6 | A Supreme Soviet of fine words and few deeds could quickly become just an irritant , a scapegoat for a ‘ democratization ’ which does not put goods in the shops . |
| 7 | There was no precedent for this holy marriage of radiant beat tunes and absorbing , idiosyncratic words and few parallels since , no matter how hard a welter of imitators tried . |
| 8 | We 've noticed that the numbers of young homeless people who are coming to see us have risen and risen over the last few months and few years . |
| 9 | Arnold Schwarzenegger , man of action and few words on the big screen . |
| 10 | In a country the size of Zambia , with few telephones in rural areas and few reporters based anywhere outside the few major towns , it is impossible to check such a story speedily . |
| 11 | Independence , in so far as this entailed freedom from obligation to a politician , was thus restricted to men with independent wealth and few dependents , but for most freeholders the friendship of a politician was a necessity at some point in their lives . |
| 12 | Resistance , other than to the organocholorines , is confined so far to only five important malaria vectors so the potential for chemical control still exists in many parts of the world It is very easy to advocate the use of alternatives to these chemicals but if you examine those for vector control in detail you will find that most are directed against the aquatic stages of the mosquito and few cases of adequate malaria control by such an attack on any significant scale can be cited . |
| 13 | There is little or no formal requirement and few incentives . |
| 14 | It closed its European sales offices last week because , according to sources , ‘ of lack of interest from end-users and few takers for the [ RPC Toolkit ] early adoption programme ’ . |
| 15 | It closed its European sales offices last week because , according to sources , ‘ of lack of interest from end-users and few takers for the [ RPC Toolkit ] early adoption programme ’ . |
| 16 | The situation clearly needs to be monitored , but it is extremely difficult to prove discrimination and few bidders would wish to alienate potential clients . |
| 17 | Furthermore , Curzon 's behaviour over the fall of the Coalition was fresh in men 's minds and had made him a lot of enemies and few friends . |
| 18 | Linnaeus devised a kind of Latin suitable for concise descriptions : animals and plants were not to be written up in flowery language , but in sentences containing many adjectives and few verbs . |
| 19 | Obviously , as a young woman , with only enthusiasm and few resources , I did not know that the Blackwomen 's Creativity Project would be creating history by staging exhibitions and events . |
| 20 | Corporate executives contemplating the possibility of being required to commit corporate crimes know that they face a regulatory agency which for the most part will be unable to detect what is going on , and in the minority of cases when it does , it will have no heart and few resources to pursue the matter into the criminal courts . |
| 21 | Taiwan suffered one of its periodic earthquakes early on the Tuesday of the following week , mercifully less severe than many and leaving Taipei itself badly rocked but suffering only superficial damage and few casualties . |
| 22 | The country was green and flat and featureless as they got nearer Hackballs Cross , with high hedges and few signs of human habitation . |
| 23 | In practice registry work and the storage of ‘ dead ’ records have been given a low profile and few resources . |
| 24 | There had been no sense of impending crisis and few newspapers were seriously featuring the Falklands situation prior to the invasion . |
| 25 | The person who graduates from television 's school , then , is someone who has little imagination and few skills in logical analysis and critical discussion ; they have a marked preference for images rather than reality ; and a deep and increasing commitment to just one activity : watching television . |
| 26 | Large areas of India were at a virtual standstill on May 22 , with little public transport and few shops open . |
| 27 | There was no short cut : farming was an art and few men had it unless they 'd come by it the hard way . |
| 28 | ‘ If Chief Justice Fortescue asked for a report , we could pose many questions and few solutions , Sir John . ’ |
| 29 | All this was indeed ‘ daring ’ stuff and few moviegoers in that 1914–16 period could have failed to appreciate that the messages were coming at them thick and fast as the motion-picture industry tried hard to prove that it was a mature social agency . |
| 30 | By 1900 no gentleman and few ladies would have gone out without a smart , tightly furled umbrella of black silk with a touch of silver on the handle . |