Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] few [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One might hardly suspect that so simple a task for so few seconds of film could prove so practically trying and , on reflection , so symbolic of our whole chain of adventures , attempting to keep aloft and alive a consecutive string of luminous mirrors against rather ridiculous odds . |
| 2 | Full and distended after very few mouthfuls |
| 3 | I was n't surprised that my mother was silent on this subject — she acknowledged the existence of rather few people . |
| 4 | But until you consider the amount of money tied up in County Farms , and the return it gives us , and the , the subsidy if you like of so few people , and you think that school ca n't have toilets and things like that , then these should all go into the decision making melting pot , and this council should not blind itself to the various options that there could be , and in those circumstances Mr I think should be allowed to explore the possibilities of the market . |
| 5 | The very young Aplysia has a nervous system consisting of relatively few neurons , while the period of onset of the capacity to show sensitization as a behavioural phenomenon matches that of a great increase in neuronal number ; yet if all that sensitization required was the facilitatory response in a set of three neurons of the network described earlier , it is hard to see why , by contrast with habituation , it should be dependent on such an increase in neuronal number . |
| 6 | The effect of relatively few firearms had been devastating against a warrior race with no previous experience of them . |
| 7 | As in all participatory schemes , there is a risk of middle class bias in parental representation on governing bodies , with the evidence pointing to the active involvement of relatively few parents . |
| 8 | Even among the Europeans mass intercontinental migration was confined to the people of relatively few countries , in this period overwhelmingly to the British , the Irish and the Germans , and , from the 1860s on , the Norwegians and Swedes — the Danes never emigrated to the same extent — whose small numbers conceal the enormous relative size of their demographic drain . |
| 9 | In the past , companies put ‘ great responsibility in the hands of very few managers who became ‘ all-rounders ’ covering large areas both in terms of product and geography' . |
| 10 | The sensitivity of Bio-Rad GAP Test IgG described in our study is almost identical to that found by another groups , but the lower specificity could be explained by one or more of the following : their reliance on histology as a standard , which might be difficult to interpret in the presence of very few organisms ; the exclusion from their study of patients with chronic superficial or atrophic gastritis in whom H pylori was not identified , thus reducing the number of true negatives ; the relatively high number of cases of chemical gastritis in their H pylori negative group without specifying whether these patients had been treated with NSAID ; and the presence in their H pylori positive group of chronic atrophic gastritis in 117 of 160 ( 73% ) , which may have been paralleled by a rise in the number of false positive cases . |
| 11 | One thousand babies later , in April 1919 , Edith Pye departed , one of very few women to have been made a chévalier of the Legion of Honour . |
| 12 | She is one of only 20 women Circuit Judges out of over 500 and one of very few Circuit Judges who has never been a barrister . |
| 13 | With the exception of very few families who had the protection of the British consulate , the Jews were defenceless . |
| 14 | I can conceive of very few matrons who would entrust their menfolk to such temptation . ’ |
| 15 | I can think of very few occasions when you would not have the time to state your case . |
| 16 | Although he died in 1940 at the age of 35 , he had in the space of very few years produced a quite prodigious range of political and literary texts . |
| 17 | ‘ Yes , ’ said April , making it increasingly apparent that she was a girl of very few words . |
| 18 | One club that has shut down permanently is The Brain in London , a victim of too few clubbers with too little money after one good summer too many . |
| 19 | The crucial assumption underlying this analysis , in contrast to those which have focused on the rate of growth of labour supply and the idea of too few producers , is that the achievement of higher productivity is a prior condition for and not a consequence of a higher rate of growth of the manufacturing labour force [ cf. |
| 20 | Some managers who carry a smaller team of paid workers with only few volunteers have indeed shown support for the new breed of ‘ unemployed ’ worker , in order to broaden the CAB volunteer base . |
| 21 | However , the talents of her mind amply compensated for the defects of her person ; and if , with so few advantages , she was capable of writing with so much credit to herself , there can be no doubt but , if her career had been prolonged , she would have greatly distinguished herself in the annals of female literature [ |
| 22 | It was good to be in a class with so few girls ; there were just three of us among fourteen boys , and as a result we all became good friends without forming any sentimental attachments . |
| 23 | ‘ At the moment though , with so few experts in this field , underwater sites will come forward for consideration far less often than land sites . |
| 24 | Welsh coach Clive Griffiths said : ‘ With so few players to choose from , we are always on a knife edge . |
| 25 | With so few studies of the impact of severe floods on river life , knowing how typical the response of the Araglin is could be anybody 's guess . |
| 26 | Theirs had been a terminally ill situation with so few worshippers in so large and expensive a building . |
| 27 | But the problem still exists and Sylvia 's carer , Barbara Waddington says she believes with so few trains apparently unable to fit the wheelchair on to the train , British Rail ought to ensure that Sylvia can travel in more comfort . |
| 28 | In its zeal to relieve China 's embarrassment at hosting a party with so few guests , East Berlin sent two senior officials — Egon Krenz , a member of the Politburo , and Wolfgang Rachfuss , a member of the Central Committee . |
| 29 | ‘ We are in business to make a profit and we can not do that with so few passengers . ’ |
| 30 | He turned back to the frying-pan , and she wondered how anyone could make her hackles rise with so few words . |