Example sentences of "[prep] few [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is a period about which little is known for few records survive of those days . |
| 2 | Tamar stood for few moments studying the turbulent river , which seemed to reflect the turmoil of her thoughts . |
| 3 | The life of a business or operation may also be at risk for few industries have such a strong and demanding legal code where failure to comply may result in immediate closure or prosecution . |
| 4 | She was one of few women to comment on Ashdown the hunk : ‘ I prefer the darker type , you know , with smouldering eyes . ’ |
| 5 | of few words measure us . |
| 6 | Australian conservationists these past few decades have been worried and at times appalled by the destruction of the Great Barrier Reef by crown of thorns starfish . |
| 7 | ‘ These past few days have been a living hell for you and for me . ’ |
| 8 | These past few years have seen a sharp decline in morality . |
| 9 | Individuals lower down the organisation may be given little responsibility with few decisions delegated down the organisation to them . |
| 10 | The pay is usually appalling for those who do n't speak much of any language but their own and want cash in hand with few questions asked . |
| 11 | Bare heads with few feathers enable them to reach into carcases of dead animals without becoming matted with blood . |
| 12 | THE market continued to drift during the Wall Street holiday , with few investors prepared to put their hands in their pockets . |
| 13 | A series of police operations in Istanbul , Ankara and Adana , mainly directed against safe houses of Turkey 's principal urban guerrilla organisation , Devrimci Sol , in which casualties were high with few prisoners taken , fuelled allegations that the police were shooting to kill with out giving a warning or an opportunity to surrender . |
| 14 | On a quiet day , with few shares changing hands , the German central bank 's anticipated change in interest rates was expected to make an impression on the FTSE . |
| 15 | Even if an officer is working on a pollution problem requiring repeated visits , he continues to do the unpredictable wherever possible to provide the polluter with few opportunities to organize his activities so as to create a spurious impression that things are under control . |
| 16 | Not so long ago , a haulage company would send its drivers out into the world with few opportunities to communicate with then until they returned . |
| 17 | Travellers on the road between Sedbergh and Kirkby Stephen , the A683 , pass through attractive countryside of contrasting landscapes , all fair to look upon and with few habitations to counter the loneliness of the surroundings . |
| 18 | They provided many of the resources for the celebrations and allowed the students to proceed as they wished with few officials presiding over events . |
| 19 | Make comparisons with other organisations , e.g. Leisure centres £250 per annum with few facilities included ; slimming beds from £250 with no other activities etc . |
| 20 | Here the outcome is still very unpredictable , with few precedents to follow . |
| 21 | The US Federal Trade Commission 's investigation of Microsoft Corp has had an air of unreality about it , with few people imagining that it will come to anything very much or lead to any significant change in the market , but now that the thing may be coming to a climax , what are the possible outcomes ? |
| 22 | This phenomenon was more marked in the three model biles with few vesicles remaining after the addition of 10 µmol/ml of lecithin . |
| 23 | Ralph Berger and Ian Oswald established that the REM sleep periods characterized by few and small eye movements were accompanied by experiences of what they called " passive " dreaming , with few events reported that the subject could have been scanning . |
| 24 | Despite the fact no-one doubts that popular opinions on crime and its containment are extensively and deeply held , whenever Criminal Justice Bills are before the Commons the atmosphere seems detached and wary , with few MPs participating and a majority keeping the subject at arms length . |
| 25 | Both the French government and French farming unions traditionally favoured linking farm incomes mainly to prices rather than to " social handouts " ( although , according to the Financial Times of May 22 , there was in late 1991 " a growing realization by farming leaders that some kind of social help was needed to enable an ageing farming population with few successors to retire peacefully " ) . |
| 26 | In Leicestershire their probate inventories show them to have been essentially large-scale farmers , generally working 100 acres or more , sometimes occupying two or more farms extending into more than one parish , renting additional pastures , and with few exceptions distinguished from plain husbandmen by superior wealth . |
| 27 | It has also been claimed that towns were centres of consumption rather than production and that even local trade was insignificant in volume because of poor transport facilities , while long distance trade was with few exceptions restricted to luxuries because there was no mass-market . |
| 28 | In few studies have the higher moments been used to advantage , the principal exception being that of Sly ( 1977 , 1978 ) who used the skewness — kurtosis interrelationships to recognize differing environmental energy levels in deposits of the Great Lakes ( Fig. 3.1() ) . |
| 29 | MESSAGE BEGINS STOP EGG NOW LAID AND INCUBATING NICELY STOP EXPECT HATCHING IN FEW WEEKS STOP SUGGEST YOU CONTACT AVIARY AND BEGIN SELECTING SPECIMEN STOP TUES 1100 EST STOP MANVILLE APD/ 3700925/WP MESSAGE ENDS |
| 30 | He was the first gold medal winner ( 1902 ) of the Institution of Mining and Metallurgy , his obituary in Nature noting : ‘ It is given to few men to discover a process which has had such a far-reaching effect in almost every branch of civilised life . ’ |