Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [prep] few " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some urban estates , partly as a result of allocation policies , are effectively one-class areas with few examples of success , clearly labelled by their architecture and appearance is distinct from the rest of society . |
| 2 | They lived as cheaply as possible , permanently on the brink of destitution , and were often withdrawn , self-isolating personalities with few friends and no contact with their families . |
| 3 | Now the areas of sands and gravels have dry soils with few chemicals for crops . |
| 4 | Scotch Whisky provides 15,000 jobs , many in rural areas with few alternative opportunities . |
| 5 | It is particularly important to remote rural areas with few employment opportunities and to industrial areas experiencing high unemployment . |
| 6 | Some schools in affluent industrial districts could profit from the scheme while those in rural areas with few companies nearby would have little chance of extra support . |
| 7 | Quiet and remote islands , pretty villages with few facilities . |
| 8 | Their elongated stems with few small leaves strive upwards until they find sufficient light , and this can be seen when sun-loving species are planted in shady parts of the garden . |
| 9 | The planner is concerned with shopping centres rather than out-of-town retailing so that stand-alone stores or retail parks with few stores are not represented . |
| 10 | Bare heads with few feathers enable them to reach into carcases of dead animals without becoming matted with blood . |
| 11 | Why did graptoloids have an evolutionary trend from many branches to few branches ? |
| 12 | In other cases , strong feelings have been aroused , and there has been one electronic punch-up. stated quite reasonably that Sheffield United are crap , and Julie Donnelly , a list member with Blade tendencies , told him what she thought of that in many words of few syllables . |
| 13 | This may be too large ( or too small ) inconveniently situated for transport , social support , shops etc or in an isolated locality in a confusing environment , eg in a multi-storey block or a large housing estate which can lead to difficulties in orientation liable to vandalism in poor repair be poorly insulated/difficult to heat have dangerous wiring Elderly owner-occupiers with few financial resources have particular problems ; others may have resources but do not recognise the need for repairs . |
| 14 | Although it is clear that mountainous areas with few nearby notable pollution sources are receiving their pollution burden from regions or countries several hundreds or thousands of kilometres distant , it is difficult to determine precisely from which source or sources the pollution originated . |
| 15 | They will generally consider construction developments only on prime sites with few planning problems , preferably a freehold pre-let scheme , using an established developer . |
| 16 | Politicians cling to the rhetoric of socialism while supporting a system which delivers great riches to few businessmen , and profitable cuts to the civil servants and politicians who hand out licences . |
| 17 | He was educated at King William 's College , Isle of Man , described by his brother A. E. Lynam as ‘ a romantic place in those days with few of the traditions or restrictions of the modern public school ’ . |
| 18 | The Chart parser thus fulfills the architectural requirements outlined above and , in addition , reflects the paring down of the graph-searching task to its barest requirements with few restrictions on how the graph should be constructed and explored . |
| 19 | This technique can , however , give very good results if the low order digits of the key are consecutive integers with few gaps . |
| 20 | This employment context of increased competition between applicants for insecure part-time or fixed-term jobs with few protective conditions , suggests that the ideals of rehabilitation and normalization — that is the restoration of opportunities for participation in all areas of civil society will be extremely difficult to implement within the terms of hospital rundown . |
| 21 | Easily Accessible : Downhayes is set in an area of small working farms with few public footpaths in the immediate area . |
| 22 | Another advantage of small chips with few address lines is that each cell of a chip only stores a very crude fragment of knowledge about the image on the retina . |
| 23 | Social issues , which between them were the subject of almost a fifth of the courses , accounted for only 9 per cent of the total number of teacher-days : they tended to be short , workshop-style courses with few participants . |
| 24 | One reason the central bank has been able to keep money tight is that the victims of bankruptcy have so far been mainly property- or finance-related companies with few employees . |
| 25 | Otmoor , north of Oxford , is a bleak lonely wasteland of sour fields with few trees . |
| 26 | The genus as a whole shares its virtuous qualities with few others in the marine aquarium hobby . |
| 27 | These are those who have been unemployed longest , and generally speaking are very young claimants with few skills , or older workers who , by the length of this unemployment , have been de-skilled . |
| 28 | Secondly , this transfer punishes local authorities with few residential care homes and cuts off money for future expansion . |