Example sentences of "[noun] of [adv] few " in BNC.
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| 1 | The effect of relatively few firearms had been devastating against a warrior race with no previous experience of them . |
| 2 | I was n't surprised that my mother was silent on this subject — she acknowledged the existence of rather few people . |
| 3 | The unexpected finding of very few and exclusively group II introns in plant mitochondria may be explained by their requirement for trans-splicing . |
| 4 | The sensitivity of Bio-Rad GAP Test IgG described in our study is almost identical to that found by another groups , but the lower specificity could be explained by one or more of the following : their reliance on histology as a standard , which might be difficult to interpret in the presence of very few organisms ; the exclusion from their study of patients with chronic superficial or atrophic gastritis in whom H pylori was not identified , thus reducing the number of true negatives ; the relatively high number of cases of chemical gastritis in their H pylori negative group without specifying whether these patients had been treated with NSAID ; and the presence in their H pylori positive group of chronic atrophic gastritis in 117 of 160 ( 73% ) , which may have been paralleled by a rise in the number of false positive cases . |
| 5 | First , the evolution of a new unique sequence with a new function may require the selective modification of as few as 5 per cent of the bases . |
| 6 | ‘ Yes , ’ said April , making it increasingly apparent that she was a girl of very few words . |
| 7 | To misquote Sir Winston Churchill : ‘ Never in the field of human conflict did the votes of so many influence the outcome of so few in so much time . ’ |
| 8 | The polymerase chain reaction was pioneered for diagnostic use , and the detection of as few as two genomes of M tuberculosis in clinical samples is now possible . |
| 9 | Even among the Europeans mass intercontinental migration was confined to the people of relatively few countries , in this period overwhelmingly to the British , the Irish and the Germans , and , from the 1860s on , the Norwegians and Swedes — the Danes never emigrated to the same extent — whose small numbers conceal the enormous relative size of their demographic drain . |
| 10 | For the vast majority of Tanzanians it is a second language , being the mother tongue of relatively few . |
| 11 | The use of too few coordinate points will result in angular boundaries while the use of too many points is uneconomical as a printer is only capable of resolving position to within one character position . |
| 12 | Although he died in 1940 at the age of 35 , he had in the space of very few years produced a quite prodigious range of political and literary texts . |
| 13 | In the past , companies put ‘ great responsibility in the hands of very few managers who became ‘ all-rounders ’ covering large areas both in terms of product and geography' . |
| 14 | As in all participatory schemes , there is a risk of middle class bias in parental representation on governing bodies , with the evidence pointing to the active involvement of relatively few parents . |
| 15 | With the exception of very few families who had the protection of the British consulate , the Jews were defenceless . |
| 16 | The crucial assumption underlying this analysis , in contrast to those which have focused on the rate of growth of labour supply and the idea of too few producers , is that the achievement of higher productivity is a prior condition for and not a consequence of a higher rate of growth of the manufacturing labour force [ cf. |
| 17 | And in a social context of too few well-trained and experienced mathematics teachers , where the parents of boys are more likely to complain if their children are badly taught , the girls ' classes may well be assigned the less competent or less experienced teachers . |
| 18 | One club that has shut down permanently is The Brain in London , a victim of too few clubbers with too little money after one good summer too many . |
| 19 | JOHN MAJOR 'S hope of a Commons victory on the Maastricht Treaty rested on the votes of as few as four rebel MPs last night . |