Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] [adv] few " in BNC.
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| 1 | The six-fold screen , ‘ Courtesans of the Tamaya House ’ , attributed to Utagawa Toyoharu ( 1735–1814 ) , is one of only very few floating world screens and most probably was used in the courtesan 's own apartment . |
| 2 | One of only very few such teaching posts in Europe ( a similar chair exists at Freiburg in Germany ) it further strengthens York University 's Medieval Studies course . |
| 3 | Once a water has attained this excellent balance of only relatively few big bream , it is surprising how long it can maintain the balance for a number of years afterwards . |
| 4 | While industry sources suggest up to 200 could be employed , Lesli O'Dowd estimates the likely figure at less than a quarter of that , with perhaps as few as 10–15 jobs for local people . |
| 5 | With only very few exceptions , the ruling élites were Christian . |
| 6 | With relatively so few policewomen , the occupational culture of the force is heavily masculine , and the wider cultural values that exist in Northern Ireland generally make men more conservative in their attitudes towards gender and sex roles . |
| 7 | Kissing women on stage or on screen — with very very few exceptions — Claire Bloom one , Elizabeth Taylor another — ‘ gives me the horrors ’ . |
| 8 | Until recently very few Europeans and hardly anyone from England had visited this area and they did not appear to have had any previous requests from foreign visitors for information , visits to courts or access to their prisons . |
| 9 | Other parts included the Irish curate in Devotion ( 1944 ) , a Hollywood gloss on the Bronte story ; Schumann in Song of Love ( 1947 ) ; the arms dealing lover of Gina Lollobrigida in Never So Few ( 1959 ) ; and the artist-doctor in Of Human Bondage ( 1964 ) . |
| 10 | Among the hardest hit industries were motors , where Ford and Vauxhall on Feb. 7 announced cuts of over 2,000 jobs and around 300 respectively to take effect mostly from late 1992 ; aerospace , with BAe announcing on Feb. 12 some 2,350 job losses in its military and regional divisions ; coal , with several pit closures or staff reductions having been announced in January , and with a prediction by Malcolm Edwards , then British Coal 's commercial director , on Feb. 19 that the corporation could be slimmed down to possibly as few as 12 pits in the next two years ; and steel , where on Jan. 8 British Steel had confirmed the closure by September of the remaining part of its huge Ravenscraig plant in Scotland , with around 1,200 job losses . |