Example sentences of "[prep] few [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At a time of few exchange controls , vast sums of money can be freely moved around by companies , investment managers and individuals to obtain the best return and seek the safest protection of capital . |
| 2 | Thus circumgranular ( or rim ) cements ( Fig. 5.24a ) form where there are many nucleation sites on a sediment grain , whereas poikilotopic cements ( Fig. 5.24b ) are the result of few nucleation sites and , in general , slower crystal growth . |
| 3 | Despite few policy differences between the two major parties , the PNM exploited widespread fears that in agreeing to the temporary residence of 100 Haitian refugees , Robinson was seeking to change the racial mix in a country where race relations had become a major political and social issue . |
| 4 | Barron and Norris ( 1976 ) suggest that the labour market is divided into two segments — a primary sector which provides skilled , secure work at good levels of pay which is reached by long promotion ladders , and a secondary sector characterized by unskilled , insecure work with few promotion prospects and low levels of pay ( see figure 4.6 ) . |
| 5 | In all residential areas , safety is at its lowest in long straight streets , in streets with many junctions and those with few play facilities . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Hedges with few shrub species , wire fences , or even no features at all , can all mark the edge of early documented parishes . |
| 8 | They will generally consider construction developments only on prime sites with few planning problems , preferably a freehold pre-let scheme , using an established developer . |
| 9 | It differs from the rest of Newham in that it is less typically an inner-city area and rather more middle class with few tower blocks and a higher proportion of owner-occupied housing . |
| 10 | It is particularly important to remote rural areas with few employment opportunities and to industrial areas experiencing high unemployment . |
| 11 | With few Luftwaffe bombers now left in Sicily , raids were desultory and of nuisance value during most of March , the main torment for the defenders remaining the ever-present Bf109Es of 7/JG 26 . |
| 12 | Traditionally , psychiatric hospitals have worked a two-shift system by day with few meal breaks and with a limited overlap in the middle , whereas acute hospitals tend to provide unpaid meal breaks and large overlap between the morning and afternoon shifts . |
| 13 | Thomas F. " Mack " McLarty , an Arkansas businessman , was chosen as the new White House Chief of Staff ; Clinton stated that the post , which in the past two decades had grown massively in power in comparison with the Cabinet , would be that of " an honest broker " with few policy implications . |
| 14 | Nevertheless , as an oral drug with few side effects , it may find a role in maintenance suppression in patients with chronic hepatitis C virus infection . |
| 15 | The Scottish Nationalists are also considering a programme of civil disobedience in protest at a fourth term of rule by a party with few seats north of the border . |
| 16 | This may be achieved with careful allocation of charge codes to users for reserving module names ( there is no harm in having many as opposed to few charge codes ) , and use of the LIFESPAN database management facilities like offline and module version deletion . |