Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] few [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | raises a lot of money through sponsorship few people committing money every month . |
| 2 | Of course few people possess sufficient evidence to argue strongly for the extreme poles of the personal/institutional development issue , and it is unlikely that even Stenhouse or Hoyle would have denied that there is a middle ground which acknowledges the interaction of the system and the individual . |
| 3 | Though the trend is one of improvement few City economists are prepared to be more optimistic than Mr Major 's own forecast for next year of £15billion . |
| 4 | In addition few people believed that FDP officers could easily relinquish their former role . |
| 5 | This was an important step towards a national health service , though in practice few authorities did much to modernize their facilities . |
| 6 | In practice few UPS bands are quite so starkly simple ; we usually see the vestiges of a progression . |
| 7 | This is a difficult question but in practice few spreadsheets need more than 1 or 2 MBytes of expanded memory . |
| 8 | In practice few companies have made use of the opportunity provided by the Act to start generating electricity on a substantial scale . |
| 9 | In practice few debtors went out , but the settlers were helped liberally with private and public funds administered by the charitable trust created to run the colony . |
| 10 | The shore remains frozen until the summer thaw ; during summer the beaches and rocky shores alike are scoured by floating ice ; in consequence few plants or animals inhabit the intertidal or upper littoral zones . |
| 11 | In fact few homeworkers enjoy employee status . |
| 12 | In fact few library authorities make a serious attempt at tackling problems of stock logistics , so that this factor is rarely quantified , except in a very general sense . |
| 13 | Hungarian-style reforms introduced , but comprehensively : markets function and managers make decisions unless planners say otherwise ( at present few decisions can be taken unless planners authorise them ) . |
| 14 | As there are at present few materials focusing on this aspect of discourse , the remainder of 8 suggests what such relevant activities might be . |
| 15 | ISS assumed that the first three years would continue with a broad curriculum and would include subjects ( such as home economics ) which at present few schools consider to be compulsory in the fourth and fifth years . |