Example sentences of "[verb] few [noun pl] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Otherwise he made few changes in personnel . |
| 2 | As a gentleman of sincerity Ally MacLeod , now enjoying his third spell as manager of Ayr United , has few equals in the world of football . |
| 3 | As a monument to extravagance of taste it has few equals in England , although it may not entirely justify the descriptions of a series of upended turnips stuck on boxes or St Paul 's pups which two irreverent contemporaries , William Cobbett and Dean Smith , bestowed on it . |
| 4 | The mountain peaks of Christian belief are travelled there in a style that has few rivals in the whole history of the church , and none at all in the twentieth century . |
| 5 | No wonder Dolly Parton has few fans in Ulan Bator ! |
| 6 | As a trial for the Cheltenham Gold Cup , the outcome of the race caused few ripples in the ante-post market , although Chatam has shortened to a best priced 10-1 ( from 16-1 ) with Ladbrokes . |
| 7 | I have made few attempts in this chapter to give the first references to ideas or discoveries . |
| 8 | I have met few men in my life about whose bathroom habits I have felt entirely comfortable |
| 9 | But even if I suppress my reactions , this is how I feel , and , consequently , I have met few men in my adult life about whose bathroom habits I have felt entirely comfortable . |
| 10 | Whatever the style , congregations show few inhibitions in facial expression and in their use of the body to express devotion . |
| 11 | We have had few successes in |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Contrary to the popular myth , Galileo seems to have performed few experiments in mechanics . |
| 14 | EVEN though the country is in recession leading rugby clubs seem to encounter few difficulties in attracting sponsors . |
| 15 | The development officers expressed few difficulties in supervising and managing their support workers ( apart from the particular problems with clients already discussed ) . |
| 16 | That could be crucial , because Britain will have few allies in opposing the workerparticipation rules . |
| 17 | Le Pen will have few converts in Britain . |
| 18 | Although most trees produce few seeds in any year , the energy stored in each seed is sufficient for a seedling to grow for several weeks with little or no photosynthesis . |
| 19 | Nagata encountered few problems in her 68 , which included four birdies and an eagle , while American Kim Lasken holed an 80-yard approach for an eagle 3 at the third hole in her 69 . |
| 20 | Ellis Cashmore finds few surprises in Studs Terkel 's epic survey of US attitudes to race |
| 21 | Last week 's National Audit Report on the ‘ Quality of Road and Bridge Construction ’ pulls few punches in its look at the work of the Department of Transport , the Welsh Office and the Scottish Development Office . |
| 22 | Duty of care presents few problems in this area . |
| 23 | He also distributed library books to those who asked for them — although I saw few books in the cells or barracks and it was stated that few prisoners were interested in reading . |
| 24 | The 1970 Act as enacted offered few compromises in its aim to give the nation a healthy atmosphere by the mid 1970s . |
| 25 | In other respects the Liberals introduced few changes in education . |
| 26 | She had few friends in the locality , preferring to go for long walks in the nearby countryside with the family dog , until , that is , Ronald Travis took up his duties in the signal box . |
| 27 | They had few friends in France , and without them the dazzling night life meant nothing . |
| 28 | She too had few friends in London . |
| 29 | Although the students had few problems in discerning a variety of viable strategies for presenting new lexis in such a way that learners might be thought to be able to perceive its meaning without the intervention of English , the areas of structure and discourse proved less tractable . |
| 30 | His belief that compromise might be possible and necessary had few followers in the ruling United National Party ( UNP ) . |