Example sentences of "[adv] few [noun pl] [noun] " 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 Lucy Lippard wrote about Eva Hesse in 1976 : ‘ Hesse died just before the women 's movement gained a broad impact on the art world and she considered herself one of the unusual ones , almost a freak , since there were so few women artists at all visible at that time ’ 5
3 It 's quite im It 's quite important in the same way , that it 's quite important that we have so few women M Ps .
4 Just as it 's wrong that there should be so few women M Ps .
5 In contrast , relatively few investigations centre on the workplace — although there are exceptions such as Dore ( 1973 ) , Gallie ( 1978 ) , Jacobs et al .
6 After New Hampshire , however , Frohnmayer had to go , and despite all the publicity surrounding his departure , it is remarkable how few arts advocates have protested , and how many have seemed to heave a quiet sigh of relief .
7 I am more surprised by how few mistakes writers make .
8 Unless you have only very few Windows applications , or enjoy looking at the background ( which may be changed to something prettier ) enlarge the Program Manager to fill the entire screen .
9 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 .
10 Yet common sense dictates that there can be very few police actions which a person would be entitled to resist at all costs , including if ‘ necessary ’ the use of fatal force .
11 ‘ I 'm so glad , ’ Leith replied , knowing from the very few comments Rosemary had let drop that she must have gone through a most unhappy time before Derek had finally left .
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