Example sentences of "[conj] [prep] few [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hawaiian-type eruptions are not confined to Hawaii , although in few other areas are fire fountains quite so beautifully developed . |
| 2 | Estranged from family , probably , and with few real friends . |
| 3 | I was n't a particularly happy person at the time ; lonely , in a rather dead-end job and with few personal relationships . |
| 4 | The third common explanation suggested that growing up in a white racist society and with few positive black public images created low self-esteem and self-concept in black children which in turn led to poor performance in schools . |
| 5 | The literature of the last few years is thronged with papers proposing that these must be taken into account — but with few realistic proposals on how this is to be achieved . |
| 6 | We tested this by measuring museum skins to compare tail dimorphism ( male:female tail length , standardized to body length ) in pairs of closely related , long-tailed species , which differed in the shape of their long tails but in few other potentially confounding variables . |
| 7 | In the same field lies the open cluster NGC 2506 , easy with × 7 and large with × 20 , though with few individual stars . |