Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] few [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | But on the other hand , if they are supposed to be representatives of our society , then there 's obviously something wrong , when there are so few women , compared with so few men . |
| 32 | The bookshop was often watched by the British Authorities because of its known association with Irish sympathizers , but in this weather , with so few people about , any observer would be sure to stand out . |
| 33 | ‘ The tanning process is a complicated business and it will not be possible with so few people . ’ |
| 34 | At that stage in his career no one was looking for a hit-machine : the longer heads realised that it was a difficult job to scale the face of Broadway — as it was in the West End — with so few footholds and even fewer helping ropes dangling down to give you a lift . |
| 35 | They are capable of packing an immense amount of precise , digital information into a very small space ; and they are capable of preserving this information — with astonishingly few errors , but still some errors — for a very long time , measured in millions of years . |
| 36 | This is in contrast with the usual representation of a physical map , where clones are summarised as intervals which have been packed into as few lines as possible ( Fig 1 ) . |
| 37 | Its members will be drawn mainly from the Commons ( the lower elected house ) , a few will be from the same party in the Lords ( the non-elected upper house ) and , although they remain in Parliament as MPs or peers , their role is very much as members of the executive , aiming to steer their programme through the assembly with as few complications or delays as possible . |
| 38 | ‘ It is very much in Courtaulds ’ interests to have a wider European Common Market with as few barriers as possible , ’ he said . |
| 39 | He considers taking an early flight because it is the quickest , doubts whether it will give him time to prepare and settles for the quickest later flight ; he wants to be bothered with as few suitcases as possible , starts packing the biggest he has , finds the lock broken and chooses another . |
| 40 | The initial concept of the T.4 was for a ‘ dual-control trainer with as few changes as possible ’ . |
| 41 | However , these problems of task allocation were all minor when compared with the driving force behind the system : getting the tasks completed as quickly and with as few staff as possible . |
| 42 | All Léonie managed to discover from the postman 's hints was that the priest had had the bones taken away for a quick burial in the cemetery with as few people present as possible , and that people were still visiting the site of the apparitions , waiting to see whether Thérèse would go back . |
| 43 | I want to do this thing as well as it can be done , and with as few deaths as we can manage . |
| 44 | The rates at which it has dealt , therefore , become quickly known in a market with comparatively few practitioners who are in continuous contact with each other . |
| 45 | After an extremely mixed summer weather wise , the spell of good weather at the tail end was almost ignored in Snowdonia , with surprisingly few teams on the major crags despite the dry conditions . |
| 46 | Nevertheless , the Japanese , with relatively few elements of their three-million strong army , achieved more rapid success than they had expected : by 11 January 1942 they had occupied the Celebes ; on 4 February the Allies on Amboina surrendered ; on 15 February Singapore fell , and on 19–20 February Timor was invaded , the main force of its defenders surrendering a few days later . |
| 47 | Thank you very much well it 's always a pleasure to hear of about the Seamanship Foundation and I 'm sure that , as you might be saying , and er the need for the foundation 's fundraising will be rather heightened this year as a result of last year 's drop but I 'm equally sure that you will get a tremendous amount of support from the members and on that note which I think is er also is an important method of concentrating our priorities and on the basis of we 're extremely lucky to be able to pursue a really very enjoyable pastime with relatively few problems and that if we can get those opportunities to many more , who would otherwise not be able to enjoy and in fact frequently do n't get to enjoy any other pastime , we should endeavour to do so and consider ourselves lucky that we can . |
| 48 | Archaeology therefore has the ability to impose , with relatively few complications , the particular contemporary boundaries of the nation-state upon its findings , and to identify these as the prehistory of Germany or Italy . |
| 49 | The range of Fairy Basslets is considerable , each species delightful in its own particular way , but with relatively few species readily identifiable from hobbyist books . |
| 50 | The majority of the company 's employees worked at this home plant , with relatively few workers located at other plants . |
| 51 | At present , with relatively few computers in schools this will be a problem , but hopefully in the future there will be plenty of computer time available . |
| 52 | Ceauşescu 's distancing himself from his fellow countrymen , whether for reasons of security or hygiene , meant that his daily life involved him in regular contact with relatively few people . |
| 53 | There are still plenty of waters with relatively few people on them and some of them contain some eye opening fish . |
| 54 | While newer recruits prefer to pin their faith on an ‘ objective ’ , ‘ scientific ’ conception of pollution standards which should — in theory at least — be rigorously applied , the older men , with relatively few exceptions , prefer to ‘ be reasonable ’ and to ‘ understand the polluter 's problems ’ . |
| 55 | In these studies , multiple treatment variables with relatively few patients in each risk factor group have precluded detection of changes in the healing rate associated with non-pharmacological risk factors whose effects are usually smaller than those due to ulcer therapy . |
| 56 | Against the background of almost zero national population growth in the 1970s and 1980s , this has produced a mosaic of both absolute growth and absolute decline across Britain with relatively few places maintaining a static population size . |
| 57 | On April 22 Rauf Denktash obtained 67.5 per cent of the vote to be re-elected President of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus ( TRNC , recognised only by Turkey ) , with relatively few voting for candidates of opposition parties which wanted to offer more concessions to the Greek Cypriots . |
| 58 | Cross-tabulation confirms this , with relatively few items not positively related to this issue . |
| 59 | The simple fact is that commitment and resource must be kept in rough equilibrium ; at the moment the infantry is being asked to do too much , with too few battalions . |
| 60 | There were too many organizational structures with too few members and even less real action . |