Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | One explanation is that the initial infection , acquired from the ingestion of overwintered larvae in May , involves so few worms that neither clinical signs nor immunity is produced ; however , sufficient numbers of larvae are seeded on to the pasture so that by July the numbers of L3 on pasture are sufficient to produce clinical disease . |
2 | As one of the best records of 1990 it was actually a lucky escape that it sold so few copies , missed Top Of The Pops , slipped the chance of a slot on youth TV and lost the chase for Sunday newspaper publicity . |
3 | He has so few doubts , and his objectives are so suspect . |
4 | He has so few doubts , and his objectives are so suspect . |
5 | Speech processing is so complex and so little understood that we want as few assumptions built into the development architecture as possible . |
6 | The latter finding may be a matter of sampling error , since a number of the 14 surveys reported relatively few women in those categories . |
7 | The accounting system has relatively few users — about five in London , 10 in New York and two in Hong Kong . |
8 | It concluded that GPs in Britain referred relatively few patients to hospitals , handling many cases themselves . |
9 | Gas between the galaxies contains too few baryons to account for all the apparent mass but too many to be consistent with the simplest Big Bang models . |
10 | Former England captain Chris Cowdrey was more critical , saying : ‘ Keith Fletcher said before the tour that he thought India posed very few problems . |
11 | Others feel that Freud used too few subjects to test his theories . |
12 | We found very few teachers who kept no records of any kind . |
13 | In over 50 hours of recorded conversational speech , Brown , Currie and Kenworthy ( 1980 ) found very few examples of passives , it-clefts or wh-clefts . |
14 | British Airways reported very few cancellations and it was not axing any flights . |
15 | A court dealing with an offender who is already subject to a community service order may make a further consecutive order , so long as the total number of hours remaining to be performed does not exceed 240 ( as this is a matter of principle rather than statute , the court is prepared to contemplate minor departures , as where the offender has very few hours to work off under the original order . ) |
16 | I think Robson would probably be used as back up because Taggart face has very few options . |
17 | Peel has very few friends in the groups he champions but Gedge is an exception . |
18 | He may be great in the eyes of the world , with his property and wealth , but he has very few friends to attend his funeral and never achieves the only thing he cares about . |
19 | You could be forgiven for thinking at first that Quick Help for WordPerfect has very few advantages over the help already supplied with WordPerfect . |
20 | Think again : by and large , America has made remarkably few mistakes in the region since the end of the Gulf war . |
21 | No Women 's Open was held as it attracted so few entrants , so all gained automatic entry to the Grand Prix . |
22 | By 1864 , it was already publishing comparatively few articles about the position of women for instance , and by the time it closed in 1865 , the copy consisted almost entirely of serials . |
23 | The extent of royal jurisdiction varied enormously : at one extreme lay Roger II , the would-be autocrat , uttering absolutist doctrines out of Justinian ; or the English king , who , however tied by custom , had effective control both of the king 's court , which retained a wide jurisdiction and was capable , under Henry II , of rapid expansion , and over the old popular courts of the shire and , where they had not fallen into private hands , of the hundred ; at the other extreme was the German king , much of whose jurisdiction had been delegated to the ecclesiastical immunities , and equally much was slipping , in the twelfth century , into princely hands ; or the French king , who was expected to do high justice to all who came , but received comparatively few callers from outside the royal domain . |
24 | So Western automobile makers put as few extras into their cars as possible — the Japanese put as many as possible . |
25 | Studies such as these show that the workplace , although it may present relatively few opportunities for ‘ escape ’ is also a context within which personal identity and social esteem are formed . |
26 | While second homes consist merely of properties no longer wanted as first homes they cause relatively few problems ; but when they grow beyond this , political , social , economic and environmental problems arise . |
27 | She has since toured extensively in the USA and parts of Europe , but has made very few appearances in these islands . |
28 | The tax on films is causing too few films to be produced . |
29 | If you have made too few contributions to qualify for the basic pension , you may be able to use some of your ex-husband 's contribution record to build up your pension to the full amount . |
30 | He said that in the last two years he had met very few institutions which had not cut back their system budgets following the 1987 crash in share prices in the stock market . |