Example sentences of "[prep] few [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may be possible , due to restricted publicity and advertising , for few tenders to be submitted and personal friends or acquaintances of the agent to be able to submit a low offer , or arrange for an offer to be submitted once all the tenders have been opened . |
| 2 | Conversely , musculo-skeletal problems , which account for few deaths of those aged 65 + , are a major cause of disability in the community . |
| 3 | You may not be aware of the Hayes Society , for few talk of it these days . |
| 4 | Women had all the constraints of family life to cope with ; children at school , shopping and housekeeping , but no sympathy was expressed by male members of the group as to the comparative hardness of the women 's lives in terms of demands on them , such as few hours of sleep . |
| 5 | Daley 's 66th-minute decider was one of few moments of excitement though , once in front , Villa could easily have sealed their victory with two more goals in the ensuing five minutes . |
| 6 | Oxfordshire is one of few counties in the south-east in which we have a surplus of holes in the ground and so Oxfordshire is one of those counties that has to help London out . |
| 7 | ( I miss out the word puking from this Shakespearean phrase since I know of few instances in which a baby has strained the cassock of the clergyman baptising it , though doubtless readers may know of one . ) |
| 8 | He was a man of few words in any case , Maggie noted . |
| 9 | I noticed his saying in a magazine interview that he could never have survived these past few years without the help of Fleet Street — and that struck me as an unusually candid confession for a politician . |
| 10 | I have spent a deal of time these past few years on cultivating you , submitting you to a species of metaphysical topiary , clipping , pruning , stunting . |
| 11 | Capable of a 109mph top speed , acceleration from standstill to 62mph in 13 secs and seating four adults , Volvo 's Environmental Concept Car stacks up like few others in claiming a place on the roads of tomorrow . |
| 12 | receiving secondary education was checked by the presence of a divisive system of private education with few parallels in other countries . |
| 13 | The surrounding volcanic cones are gently sloping with few gullies to the south , but increasingly steep and heavily gullied towards the north . |
| 14 | While some checklists may simply identify a list of ‘ useful linguistic skills ’ which may serve as a selection menu with few constraints on the sequence in which separate items are taught , those which are based on a developmental sequence place strong constraints on the selection of teaching objectives . |
| 15 | A wealthy lifestyle is likely to be reflected in a site yielding many finds of high quality ; sites with few finds of a consistently poor quality suggest a relatively low standard of living . |
| 16 | It is a piece with few reasons to be a film , and mercifully few pretensions to cinematic status . |
| 17 | He speaks softly and very reflectively , with few flights of passion . |
| 18 | The genus as a whole shares its virtuous qualities with few others in the marine aquarium hobby . |
| 19 | It also seems that it might be helpful if teachers were aware of those among their pupils with particularly unsupportive home lives , that is , with few sources outside school from which they might derive a sense of their own value . |
| 20 | Macao 's economy has weathered the turmoil in China with few signs of damage . |
| 21 | The sandhills of Squires Gate Lane with few signs of civilisation , although the scrolled bracket poles lend a touch of elegance . |
| 22 | Despite a week of little rain the crystalline waters flowed well with plenty of power over countless drops , grade II–III to start , through rolling unspoilt countryside with few signs of habitation . |
| 23 | Carter entered office on a wave of enthusiasm , yet with few signs of a clear policy . |
| 24 | In a country the size of Zambia , with few telephones in rural areas and few reporters based anywhere outside the few major towns , it is impossible to check such a story speedily . |
| 25 | The Chart parser thus fulfills the architectural requirements outlined above and , in addition , reflects the paring down of the graph-searching task to its barest requirements with few restrictions on how the graph should be constructed and explored . |
| 26 | The panel is not cut down though it may have had an adjoining predella and lunette with few areas of paint loss , and the intensity of the original pigments preserved . |
| 27 | The conditions for a girl friendly school may be more difficult to bring about , for it would seem that teachers must be openly and visibly concerned about equality before pupils will change their choices ; schools with traditional norms , limited or formal communication channels , and with few women in senior positions will be much slower to adapt to changed female expectations . |
| 28 | Groups with few functions of this kind ( such as technicians , scientists , teachers or many professionals ) are distinguished as potential allies of the working class in promoting socialism . |
| 29 | Girls with few friends in childhood report more abuse , though this may be an effect of abuse and not a risk factor . |
| 30 | When he died , after their long absences abroad , she was left with few friends in England . |