Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] few [noun] " 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 | Does this mean that too many or too few people drive cars in the rush hour ? |
| 12 | What lends this observation particular piquancy however is that remarkably few players sound particularly good . |
| 13 | Baker was particularly concerned that so few boys were taking O and A levels in languages . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 ? |
| 18 | Well , better than that , and one of the best things about it is the fact that so few people , except the French themselves , bother with it . |
| 19 | It is surprising that so few people have suggested possible reforms . |
| 20 | It is to be regretted that so few people in the county are aware of its existence . |
| 21 | As laicisation has forced religion from community to private practice , we should not be surprised that so few people know how to mourn together and share common griefs . |
| 22 | This explains the curious fact that so few people expected de Gaulle to return before May , but , once he had returned , so many placed their confidence in him . |
| 23 | The final point I want to make Mr Deputy Speaker which I think is very , very important indeed , bearing in mind that fact that so few people bothered to vote in these is is there any possibility that before these regulations come into effect we can have at the same time , a little pamphlet put out saying exactly what these additional M E Ps and the existing ones actually can do . |
| 24 | This may well be the most effective answer to the problem of low-interest categories , and it is perhaps surprising that so few library authorities operate circulating collections — even given the administrative problems involved . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | But the fact that so few rooms stand out in my memory is not so surprising . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | She found him behind a tall potted plant in the far corner where , she suspected , he had been deliberately steered by the proprietor in order that as few people as possible should be aware of his presence in the establishment . |