Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] few people " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was n't surprised that my mother was silent on this subject — she acknowledged the existence of rather few people . |
| 2 | But until you consider the amount of money tied up in County Farms , and the return it gives us , and the , the subsidy if you like of so few people , and you think that school ca n't have toilets and things like that , then these should all go into the decision making melting pot , and this council should not blind itself to the various options that there could be , and in those circumstances Mr I think should be allowed to explore the possibilities of the market . |
| 3 | The bookshop was often watched by the British Authorities because of its known association with Irish sympathizers , but in this weather , with so few people about , any observer would be sure to stand out . |
| 4 | ‘ The tanning process is a complicated business and it will not be possible with so few people . ’ |
| 5 | All Léonie managed to discover from the postman 's hints was that the priest had had the bones taken away for a quick burial in the cemetery with as few people present as possible , and that people were still visiting the site of the apparitions , waiting to see whether Thérèse would go back . |
| 6 | Ceauşescu 's distancing himself from his fellow countrymen , whether for reasons of security or hygiene , meant that his daily life involved him in regular contact with relatively few people . |
| 7 | There are still plenty of waters with relatively few people on them and some of them contain some eye opening fish . |
| 8 | Conversely , some people are introverted , and seek out relationships with very few people and then only on their own terms . |
| 9 | The day was miserable and the animals were likewise , with very few people around . |
| 10 | A Department of the Environment report has revealed that most of the British public has " woolly and undeveloped " ideas about energy conservation , with very few people aware of the link between domestic energy usage and environmental problems . |
| 11 | Part of the idea may have been a selfish desire to limit citizenship to as few people as possible , now that it brought greater material advantages . |
| 12 | Stories about being better off out of work apply only to relatively few people , those with large families and particularly exploitative employers . |
| 13 | If the Port is indeed the landscape listed in the catalogue , it is the first surviving Cubist painting to have been seen in a large public exhibition ( the Braque exhibition in the previous year had been at Kahnweiler 's gallery which was small and at that time known to relatively few people ) . |
| 14 | Britain 's higher education system still provides excellent standards of education , but does so for too few people . |
| 15 | We both cared very much for very few people . |
| 16 | Well , by very few people . |