Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the years since 1945 , Japan , unlike many other industrial nations , has received few immigrants whose presence might modify this sense of ‘ being Japanese ’ . |
| 2 | The government has given few details of its hoarding scheme . |
| 3 | Another problem is that the administration has given few details on the cash that it will put up to induce mining companies to begin new ventures . |
| 4 | The instrumental guitar album boom of recent years has seen few players survive with their credibility intact . |
| 5 | This infill bears few craters , and only a few craters have been partially obscured , indicating that the whole Caloris basin since its creation has suffered few impacts and is therefore comparatively recent . |
| 6 | Despite extensive newspaper and TV coverage , Arkie has uncovered few clues as to the whereabouts of the black , tan and white dog she rescued from an RSPCA pound three years ago . |
| 7 | The country has made few preparations for civil defence . |
| 8 | He has made few speeches and passed no Bills . |
| 9 | While the deal with Caterpillar has yet to be finalised , the Austrian venture has produced few orders . |
| 10 | Not surprisingly Chopin 's First Sonata has had few champions , so all credit to Leif Ove Andsnes , who , at a mere 22 years old , is already a formidable pianist . |
| 11 | A laissez-faire approach of non-intervention has had few adherents in the past , since most economists have accepted that theory and evidence do suggest that matters can not be left entirely to the market . |
| 12 | This has been because social psychology has had few ways of handling the macro-level political , economic and social change which has been of such great interest to sociologists . |
| 13 | Social workers appear to expect few benefits to accrue from residential care . |
| 14 | To counteract this , one must consider growing few plants other than the all important submerged oxygenating plants , or else arresting the turbulence by placing beneath the fountain a large ring which is of greater diameter than the lower bowl . |
| 15 | It has conferred few benefits . |
| 16 | Dyson-Hudson ( 1984 ) has also commented that since c. 1970 the equivalent of $US600 million has been given as development funds to Africa 's rangelands but has brought few rewards as far as more efficient and productive pastoralism is concerned . |
| 17 | Marjorie Bilbow , in Cinema TV Today , described the production as ‘ very plodding and unimaginative ’ , and Clyde Jeavons wrote in the British Film Institute 's Monthly Film Bulletin , ‘ Apart from accommodating a number of half-hearted and totally unmemorable songs and dance routines , William Sterling has taken few liberties with the original narrative , but at the same time he has divested it of both its charm and its potential for cinematic comic invention . |
| 18 | MICROSOFT 'S EXCEL HAS FACED FEW CHALLENGERS IN THE WINDOWS SPREADSHEET MARKET . |
| 19 | The science boys seemed to possess few doubts or uncertainties , they offered clear-cut answers . |
| 20 | The James family seemed to have few possessions . |
| 21 | He certainly seemed to strike few chords with Class 1 . |
| 22 | EVEN though the country is in recession leading rugby clubs seem to encounter few difficulties in attracting sponsors . |
| 23 | A profession tends to have few members , each member possessing esoteric knowledge which sets him or her apart from their peers . |
| 24 | A positive response comes from North-West Europe where relationships between clergy and organists seem to present few problems , and where there is a general improvement and growth in matters musical . |
| 25 | If the former are sometimes rather abstract and theoretical , the latter often show relatively little concern with trends or issues outside their own field , and tend to draw few parallels . |
| 26 | The strikers returned to work having won few concessions . |
| 27 | Perhaps nomadic by choice , a typical shepherd would have had few possessions , would not own the flock , the pastures or a house . |
| 28 | Best himself seems to have few doubts as to why he got the nod , citing the growing importance of the Divisional Championship as the single most important factor in his — and England 's — meteoric rise . |
| 29 | The 1970 Act as enacted offered few compromises in its aim to give the nation a healthy atmosphere by the mid 1970s . |
| 30 | Contrary to the popular myth , Galileo seems to have performed few experiments in mechanics . |