Example sentences of "[adv] few [noun pl] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | Part of the difficulty in compiling these accounts was that there were so few survivors from the coastal towns in the Sunda Straits which were most directly affected , and those who had survived were often too distraught and confused to give an accurate description of what they had experienced . |
| 2 | The extent of royal jurisdiction varied enormously : at one extreme lay Roger II , the would-be autocrat , uttering absolutist doctrines out of Justinian ; or the English king , who , however tied by custom , had effective control both of the king 's court , which retained a wide jurisdiction and was capable , under Henry II , of rapid expansion , and over the old popular courts of the shire and , where they had not fallen into private hands , of the hundred ; at the other extreme was the German king , much of whose jurisdiction had been delegated to the ecclesiastical immunities , and equally much was slipping , in the twelfth century , into princely hands ; or the French king , who was expected to do high justice to all who came , but received comparatively few callers from outside the royal domain . |
| 3 | There are surprisingly few recordings from Europe or America to suggest that this important issue has been raised and discussed . |
| 4 | French channels may buy BBC and Independent TV company programmes and in 1986 the Hersant Berlusconi ‘ le Cinq ’ imported programmes made for Berlusconi 's Italian channels , yet otherwise it seems the four major European countries — Britain , France , West Germany , Italy — buy relatively few programmes from one another : for one French-made ‘ Chateauvallon ’ , there are 10 Australian ‘ Neighbours ’ or 100 US ‘ Dallas ’ and ‘ Kojak ’ on UK television channels . |
| 5 | When teachers are sent , most of them are ladinos , as relatively few teachers from the indigenous communities are trained . |
| 6 | If the target position is relatively few steps from the initial position or the load inertia is high , the system is unable to accelerate to a high speed . |
| 7 | It was disappointing that there were relatively few possibilities from Asia . |
| 8 | But very few collectors from Northern Europe or the United States made the journey . |
| 9 | Some in the Republic believe , though , that the decision to call off the tours would suit the SARU , who have been made aware that three matches in four days in Bucharest in the middle of June followed by two in a week in Rome could leave very few survivors from heat stroke . |
| 10 | Er let me read this few paragraphs from the Sunday Times report . |
| 11 | The Council itself came under criticism in the late 1960s as containing too few members from the colleges and polytechnics , especially members other than principals and directors . |