Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] few woman " in BNC.
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| 1 | One thousand babies later , in April 1919 , Edith Pye departed , one of very few women to have been made a chévalier of the Legion of Honour . |
| 2 | Most full-time political representatives in Cuba are men , with very few women standing for election and even fewer succeeding . |
| 3 | We 're involved in letting people know about how few women there are , getting them to think about why there are so few women , training them — we have training sessions in assertiveness , public speaking — we help women get places in council , all sorts of different councils , and in national government . |
| 4 | Thus a proposed pit closure threatened the economic base of the entire community ; an absence of work for the male adults meant the destruction of every family 's economic foundation , for very few women ( save a few who worked in village shops etc. ) had either jobs or the local opportunities of jobs . |
| 5 | Currently that 's true for very few women . |
| 6 | Physics was chosen as a representative subject , not only because it is studied by so few women , and is therefore a typically masculine discipline , but also because it tends to be regarded as the most objective , rigorous and , indeed , successful of the pure sciences . |