Example sentences of "[adv] few [noun pl] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is because there are rather few ways in which an image of the incident light can be formed . |
| 2 | Think again : by and large , America has made remarkably few mistakes in the region since the end of the Gulf war . |
| 3 | ‘ At the moment though , with so few experts in this field , underwater sites will come forward for consideration far less often than land sites . |
| 4 | That so few boilers in the UK would have met the tougher standards would have provided an excellent opportunity for new , cost-reducing investment . |
| 5 | I was going to say that everyo ebs absolutely everyone is against war but not many people actually joined the United Nations after the war for a very small subscription or not many groups of people have many members in it , and of course because there were so few members in it , they a they went one particular way which a lot of people that had joined did n't agree with and so they came out of it . |
| 6 | So why are there so few women in senior positions ? |
| 7 | Given that there are so few women in powerful positions this may seem surprising . |
| 8 | Explaining why she thought there were so few women in science , she said : |
| 9 | ‘ It helps to be a woman and I can exploit that when it suits because there are so few women in Parliament and it concerns a lot of people . |
| 10 | Theirs had been a terminally ill situation with so few worshippers in so large and expensive a building . |
| 11 | As there were so few Asians in our part of London it could hardly have been anyone else , but the person had a scarf over most of his face and looked like a nervous bank robber who could n't find a bank . |
| 12 | ‘ The country is at the moment run by the Conservatives and they have so few votes in Scotland it should bring to their attention that there 's something not quite right in this situation . |
| 13 | There are comparatively few women in public positions , in politics or the trade unions , for instance . |
| 14 | The Falklands crisis tested her as few leaders in recent times have been tested . |
| 15 | But your lordship says right , it is better there should be as few hands in the chain as may be . |
| 16 | Preparations for pregnancy can begin six months or more before conception with a healthy diet — plenty of fresh fruit and vegetables , preferably organically grown and as few chemicals in the form of food additives as is possible . |
| 17 | There are now few areas in the world where the impact of the TNCs has not been researched by someone and good examples of this type of study are Kowaleski ( 1982 ) on the Caribbean , Onimode et al. |
| 18 | The argument from numbers continues to have some appeal in the criminal law but there are now few situations in which there may be an indictment for conspiracy in respect of acts which would not be criminal if done by one person . |
| 19 | This measure effectively makes competitive tendering compulsory for designated services , replacing the former ( largely discretionary ) powers which had been used by relatively few authorities in specific areas ( Ascher , 1987 , especially ch. 7 ; Stoker , 1988 ) . |
| 20 | The latter finding may be a matter of sampling error , since a number of the 14 surveys reported relatively few women in those categories . |
| 21 | It has not proved possible to determine the composition directly , which is difficult for a condensate , but the measured abundance of ammonia in the gaseous phase above the top of these clouds is about what would be expected were this ammonia in equilibrium with solid ammonia at the typical cloud top conditions of 0.5 bar and 148 K. There are thought to be relatively few breaks in the ammonia clouds , though the cloud tops need not be at the same altitude everywhere . |
| 22 | Remember , if you have relatively few models in your frontage compared to your depth the advantage of the rank bonus is accentuated because neither you nor your enemy can inflict many casualties . |
| 23 | By comparison , due to relatively few papers in major Australian cities , there is more time on assignments for less photographers . |
| 24 | And Rome insisted that the ritual occur in a consecrated church — which , given the relatively few churches in the country at the time and their tendency to be congregated in certain areas , was not always possible in Ireland . |
| 25 | Saab similarly sells relatively few cars in the US , though its numbers have been rising dramatically . |
| 26 | This was impressive since there were relatively few cars in Cairo in 1909 and the police force itself did not boast one . |
| 27 | But identification is more difficult when relatively few portraits in the round have survived . |
| 28 | At present , with relatively few computers in schools this will be a problem , but hopefully in the future there will be plenty of computer time available . |
| 29 | In these studies , multiple treatment variables with relatively few patients in each risk factor group have precluded detection of changes in the healing rate associated with non-pharmacological risk factors whose effects are usually smaller than those due to ulcer therapy . |
| 30 | All the small states fear that any strengthening of the European Parliament , where they have relatively few seats in comparison with big brothers like Britain and Germany , will lead to a weakening of their influence by comparison with the Council of Ministers , which they attend as equals . |