Example sentences of "[adv] few [noun pl] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh right few minutes then . |
| 2 | However , unlike the position in England — where the Partnerships controlled so few resources directly — the SDA had its own funds to help expedite the strategy . |
| 3 | The slope for women in large firms is much steeper but this has little effect on the average because so few women actually work continuously in large firms . |
| 4 | And then the questions which had arisen so few days ago arose unbidden , and this time , instead of forcing them away , he forced himself to face them — and the principal question of course was , just who was his father ? |
| 5 | PAMELA : O what happiness am I sunk fro and in so few days too . |
| 6 | There were so few homes where she could relax and , without talking about the hidden things , not be consciously hiding them . |
| 7 | And to us , whose country markets are rapidly vanishing , the extraordinary activity and the variety of foodstuffs on sale in a little town of only three thousands inhabitants like Duclair , so few miles away from Dover , has a particular fascination . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Well then he rung up few weeks ago and he said to June , we 'll need a car for a week . |
| 10 | The use of externally run courses can prove to be very cost-effective if an employer sends relatively few expatriates abroad . |
| 11 | This will be followed by a consideration of the relatively few attempts systematically to distinguish the social properties of the object from those of language as expressive medium . |
| 12 | There are relatively few circumstances when examination of a book by a librarian can make any significant difference to whether or not the book should be selected for a library — especially so since the biggest consumers of approval collections are public libraries , who do not claim to be experts in any particular field . |
| 13 | We first consider tests of the rational expectations hypothesis in those relatively few cases when the expected variable is directly measured . |
| 14 | These show that , in those relatively few cases where the auditor 's role has been challenged , in virtually no cases at all has lack of independence been demonstrated — or even alleged . |
| 15 | We have already mentioned that strikes need not be damaging to individual firms ; and while it is true that the economy as a whole can be damaged by certain groups of workers ( eg. power workers , miners and transport workers ) , relatively few groups actually have this kind of muscle . |
| 16 | Cross-tabulation confirms this , with relatively few items not positively related to this issue . |
| 17 | Shannon took that with a pinch of salt , knowing from experience how few directors really were willing to give ‘ free rein' to any of the technicians on the crew . |
| 18 | The first thing which struck me upon attending a House of Commons debate was how few MPs actually turned up to take part . |
| 19 | He had come across very few others not of the Kind , with that strength of vision . |
| 20 | Giller and Twomey reason that their river seemed more severely affected than the very few others ever studied . |
| 21 | All the people there are our brothers and sisters and relations so there are very few strangers around and women do n't have to wear Burkhas . |
| 22 | There have been very few cases where microorganisms have been used for in situ removal of chlorinated , or even petroleum compounds , and conventional biological processes are more commonly used . |
| 23 | There are very few cases where all the signals between cells are known . |
| 24 | Despite the constant temptation to misuse an artist 's name , there seem to be very few cases where the customer was actually deceived , although this surely must have happened with some pirate or bootleg records . |
| 25 | This aspect is something that has increased in importance with the rise of inflation because there are very few cases where the deceased would not have been earning more by the date of trial than he was earning at the date of his death . |
| 26 | The route from gene to observed effect can be very tortuous and has been worked out in only a very few cases so far . |
| 27 | Yes , erm , there are very few companies actually offering that that sort of cover . |
| 28 | His mischievous words , however , were to prove within a very few minutes appallingly prescient . |
| 29 | A very few moments later , Mala and I had firm hold of the contract for the job and were taking our leave of a decidedly miffed Emissary . |
| 30 | Yet there are others , on the fringes of power , who see him quite often at meetings of the government , at the very few moments when he shows himself to carefully selected groups of people , or when he travels from place to place . |