Example sentences of "[adv] few [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'll do a complete costing on it but I think er the only thing is of course there are so few agents total . |
| 2 | APPLE Macintosh users are , by convention , rich , so few will blanche at the arrival of Mac Publishing monthly magazine . |
| 3 | In the same way that there are now few modem savoury recipes that do not have herbs in them , and that more and more people are trying herbal remedies for aches and pains , so the uses to which herbs can be put for cosmetic and domestic purposes are being more widely explored . |
| 4 | In contrast , relatively few investigations centre on the workplace — although there are exceptions such as Dore ( 1973 ) , Gallie ( 1978 ) , Jacobs et al . |
| 5 | Turnover for the six months to the end of March almost doubled to £101m and the interim loss fell from last year 's £6.2m to £5.6m ( tour operators traditionally make a loss during the winter months when few people book holidays ) . |
| 6 | From one of olympic fame to another who works in a typing ool. hazel cooke from Gloucester has been given the British empire medal — for her efforts in one of those very few recession beating jobs — she works in the insolvency section of the department of Trade and Industry . |
| 7 | It was hoped that after very few incumbencies evaluation activities would be sufficiently deep-rooted to be self-sustaining , and the post could be abolished . |
| 8 | Very few food poisoning bacteria grow if they are colder than 5°C and they are killed if heated above 63°C . |
| 9 | The recent survey Trends in public library selection policies shows that about 20 % of public libraries do not even allocate to categories such as adult fiction , or children 's books , and very few record stock revision separately . |
| 10 | Very few television news items , less than 1 per cent , focused on inflation . |
| 11 | She , too , was unhappy about the play — to say nothing about the fact that all too few people carne to see her in her dressing room , a circumstance that was startling to her , even though she did n't react in the way that Ken himself would have done . |