Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | Aggregate data do not , of course , allow us to draw any inferences about the behaviour of individual authorities which give rise to these findings , particularly where so few cases are often involved . |
2 | You can travel as many or as few miles as you wish , but remember every lock you pass through you 'll be tackling on the way back . |
3 | From then on you 're free to choose as many or as few books as you wish . |
4 | You must always include a General , but apart from this you are free to choose as many or as few characters as you wish . |
5 | You must always include a General , but apart from this you are free to choose as many or as few characters as you wish . |
6 | It was run by Alfred Rozelaar Green who , having lived and worked in Paris before the war , wanted to imitate in London the French free academy system which offers an open house to anyone wishing to draw , paint or sculpt for as many or as few sessions as they wish . |
7 | However , there is often a need to refer to sequential files just to answer one or relatively few enquiries . |
8 | The output probe order of the annealing is then broken into a set of probe contigs , with either no or very few clones connecting the last probe of one contig to the first probe of the next . |
9 | Suitable explanations for any delay would be that there are too many patients or too few doctors and that the service is underfunded . |
10 | You are receiving too many or too few copies of the Globe each month |
11 | What lends this observation particular piquancy however is that remarkably few players sound particularly good . |
12 | Baker was particularly concerned that so few boys were taking O and A levels in languages . |
13 | Nevertheless , when it came to seeking allies in Congress , Carter 's position was much weakened , first , by the fact that so few members had any reason to be grateful to the president for their election and , second , because he had so conspicuously run against the existing political order which included , of course , Congress . |
14 | She checks them out carefully through face-to-face interviews and obtains references , but is still surprised that so few customers ask her any questions about her sitters . |
15 | It is disappointing that so few teachers thought it worth attending to express their views either on the resolutions put forward or to raise other matters . |
16 | Who can fail to be amazed that so few men ( and virtually unknown men too ) , could carry such a huge quantity of jewels unharmed over so great a distance ? |
17 | One reason that so few indicators can be shown is the all too frequent changes in the formulae used for allocation of elements of the GRE . |
18 | But the fact that so few rooms stand out in my memory is not so surprising . |
19 | Although the majority of people who visited the Exhibition Room on Survey days appeared to be well satisfied with what they saw , it is very clear ( a ) that people who visit the Library 's Exhibition Room are largely ‘ middle class ’ , and ( b ) that comparatively few visitors come from other parts of Scotland . |
20 | According to the London-based Africa Confidential newsletter of May 22 , the delay came at the insistence of the opposition , which , while claiming that the rainy season would create transport problems for delegates , was in fact concerned that comparatively few parties had as yet been granted legal status . |
21 | Further while municipal law can survive a fairly high incidence of order-violation and still fulfil its ordering function , the nature of international conflict is such that comparatively few violations , perhaps only one attempt to resist the lawful force of a world state , might be more than enough to undermine the rationale for the whole edifice of peace law . |
22 | Thus although relatively few criteria may have held them separate in linguistic terms , for community members they were distinct , focused varieties with their own names and norms . |
23 | Although relatively few eggs are produced , the male 's care ensures a good survival rate . |
24 | Reference to the both Taskopruzade 's original and Mecdi 's translation , makes it difficult to understand how such confusion has arisen ; for although relatively few facts are given there about Abdulkerim , and although it is impossible to specify with any assurance the precise dates of his Muftilik , one thing at least is clearly stated : that Abdulkerim was Mufti not in the time of Bayezid II ( 886–918/1481–1512 ) but in the time of Mehmed II ( 855–86/1451–81 ) . |
25 | When one considers that relatively few women were accused , and that a large proportion of the population were children , it is clear that a remarkably high number of adult males , around one in five , were brought before the courts each year . |
26 | However , by the end of the month activity at Aqaba had declined dramatically , so that relatively few trucks were crossing the border into Iraq at Ruweishad . |
27 | So it seems unfortunate that they report that relatively few shops are prepared to work this system . |
28 | It is significant that very few women used and abused the male body in the way that their male colleagues manipulated female flesh , indeed it is rare even to find a male nude among the work of women surrealists . |
29 | The point is that very few firms now invest large sums of money in a new venture unless they are very sure that there is a demand for it . |
30 | This means that very few particles can escape from a black hole as large as the one hypothesized to exist in Cygnus X-I , but that particles can leak very rapidly out of smaller black holes . |