Example sentences of "[prep] few [noun] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's a time for few windows and we have many , and maybe it 's even a time for living in town or city with lights and movement and not just the dead nettles of the water meadow to gaze at . |
| 2 | Man that is born of woman is of few days and full of trouble … |
| 3 | Government subsidies were also , in effect , greater for higher-density development ( subject to Parker Morris minimum standards ) , and all these factors have combined to militate against the building of few dwellings and small estates in isolated locations . |
| 4 | And it was here , after the house-warming party which began with hours of few arrivals and long silences , that she and Hugh had finished what was left of the Carafino and found themselves in the narrow bed in the basement where this dramatically argumentative child had been conceived . |
| 5 | lead naturally to a consideration of market possibilities in which there is trade and negotiation amongst few traders and to the possibility of non-market institutions . |
| 6 | The problems of physical shortages and the volume of highly liquid financial assets accumulated during the war ( high incomes during the war period , with few goods and services to be bought , led to high savings ) probably meant that attempts to regulate the economy by monetary means would have failed . |
| 7 | ‘ Post-war buildings have a relatively thin structure with few columns and lots of windows , ’ he said . |
| 8 | Organisational structures are simple with few layers and few people in senior executive positions . |
| 9 | There are flourishing schools which reflect the growing affluence and improved living conditions of a portion of the population , but there are other schools which are little more than shells , with few materials and facilities . |
| 10 | It is an Accrington brick-built town with few pretensions and it no doubt contributed to saving Gedge from a terminal dose of wetness . |
| 11 | This simplicity is , of course , in many respects the precise object of their management , because energy and nutrients are thereby channelled as directly as possible into human consumption with few sidechains and reduction in the losses involved in transferring energy between trophic levels . |
| 12 | The high school environment , it would seem , is one with few peaks and troughs , undemanding and emotionally flat . |
| 13 | Those early days , when he shared a hovel with Linder and Ian Devine , were spent with few friends and ‘ How Soon Is Now ’ , an indication that his personal situation had n't improved with success , was hardly the typical Top Of The Pops sentiment of the day . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | He assisted nevertheless in keeping the Protectionist party together in a difficult period , with few resources and little help from his leaders . |
| 16 | Traditional grammar was developed on the basis of Greek and Latin , and was subsequently applied , with few modifications and often uncritically , to the description of a large number of other languages . |
| 17 | She recalled her own efforts , with few words and much gesturing , to find out if she could collect the washing , all clean and dried , in two hours . |
| 18 | They are constructed with few weaknesses and have a sound , strong constitution . |
| 19 | It was a dour afternoon , with few men and women in the streets , which had a pinched , frozen look as if there were not enough fires burning in the houses to keep them snug . |
| 20 | Around you will be young people , with few responsibilities and seemingly unlimited possibilities . |
| 21 | With few spares and no reserve aircraft , their service was not expected to be sustained . |
| 22 | The study revealed that growth of Asian businesses was confined to few areas and , although this had been rapid during the 1970s , it had been declining recently . |
| 23 | Perhaps monotony , fragmentation and excessive pace are noted by few housewives and are not bound up with a dominant feeling of dissatisfaction . |