Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [adv] few " in BNC.
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| 1 | The effect of relatively few firearms had been devastating against a warrior race with no previous experience of them . |
| 2 | The smaller the SD in relation to the mean , the more scores cluster around the mean with relatively few high or low scores . |
| 3 | The initial concept of the T.4 was for a ‘ dual-control trainer with as few changes as possible ’ . |
| 4 | I was n't surprised that my mother was silent on this subject — she acknowledged the existence of rather few people . |
| 5 | The unexpected finding of very few and exclusively group II introns in plant mitochondria may be explained by their requirement for trans-splicing . |
| 6 | The sensitivity of Bio-Rad GAP Test IgG described in our study is almost identical to that found by another groups , but the lower specificity could be explained by one or more of the following : their reliance on histology as a standard , which might be difficult to interpret in the presence of very few organisms ; the exclusion from their study of patients with chronic superficial or atrophic gastritis in whom H pylori was not identified , thus reducing the number of true negatives ; the relatively high number of cases of chemical gastritis in their H pylori negative group without specifying whether these patients had been treated with NSAID ; and the presence in their H pylori positive group of chronic atrophic gastritis in 117 of 160 ( 73% ) , which may have been paralleled by a rise in the number of false positive cases . |
| 7 | First , the evolution of a new unique sequence with a new function may require the selective modification of as few as 5 per cent of the bases . |
| 8 | ‘ Yes , ’ said April , making it increasingly apparent that she was a girl of very few words . |
| 9 | All Léonie managed to discover from the postman 's hints was that the priest had had the bones taken away for a quick burial in the cemetery with as few people present as possible , and that people were still visiting the site of the apparitions , waiting to see whether Thérèse would go back . |
| 10 | It can also be as elementary as the monotone with either few or no inflections . |
| 11 | If Labour had accepted PR , and the possibility of an agreement with the Liberal Democrats to introduce it , then it could have ensured defeat for the Conservatives by giving the Lib Dems a clear run in as few as 20 seats . |
| 12 | ‘ In London , in 1934 when the knowledge of the power of the atom was a dream in very few minds , ’ Dr Tariq said , ‘ there was a Hungarian refugee . |
| 13 | This can , of course , create very undesirable consequences : social stability may be endangered by concentration of too much power and/ or wealth in too few hands ; the privacy of citizens may be abused under the excuse of maintaining law and order , or for commercial gains ; the state may take a " big brother " role ; the business community may acquire too much political power ; or , although very unlikely , IT experts may decide that they should take over the running of the country , since it is only they who can understand the unnecessary complexity of IT systems . |
| 14 | The contents are secret and have been seen in their entirety by very few officers below the rank of Assistant Chief Constable . |
| 15 | To misquote Sir Winston Churchill : ‘ Never in the field of human conflict did the votes of so many influence the outcome of so few in so much time . ’ |
| 16 | Part of the idea may have been a selfish desire to limit citizenship to as few people as possible , now that it brought greater material advantages . |
| 17 | Thank you very much well it 's always a pleasure to hear of about the Seamanship Foundation and I 'm sure that , as you might be saying , and er the need for the foundation 's fundraising will be rather heightened this year as a result of last year 's drop but I 'm equally sure that you will get a tremendous amount of support from the members and on that note which I think is er also is an important method of concentrating our priorities and on the basis of we 're extremely lucky to be able to pursue a really very enjoyable pastime with relatively few problems and that if we can get those opportunities to many more , who would otherwise not be able to enjoy and in fact frequently do n't get to enjoy any other pastime , we should endeavour to do so and consider ourselves lucky that we can . |
| 18 | By the closing date there were only seven names on the list and although the cancellation of the event was unprecedented and most regrettable , it would have been quite impossible to fulfil the purpose of the day with so few . |
| 19 | This reminds Daedalus of an ecology with relatively few interacting species . |
| 20 | Its members will be drawn mainly from the Commons ( the lower elected house ) , a few will be from the same party in the Lords ( the non-elected upper house ) and , although they remain in Parliament as MPs or peers , their role is very much as members of the executive , aiming to steer their programme through the assembly with as few complications or delays as possible . |
| 21 | Ceauşescu 's distancing himself from his fellow countrymen , whether for reasons of security or hygiene , meant that his daily life involved him in regular contact with relatively few people . |
| 22 | While it may be virtually abolished on the first night by as few as four or five wakenings , on subsequent nights REM " pressure " increases , and successively more wakenings are required , as the number of times REM sleep is initiated is increased . |
| 23 | The polymerase chain reaction was pioneered for diagnostic use , and the detection of as few as two genomes of M tuberculosis in clinical samples is now possible . |
| 24 | For the vast majority of Tanzanians it is a second language , being the mother tongue of relatively few . |
| 25 | The use of too few coordinate points will result in angular boundaries while the use of too many points is uneconomical as a printer is only capable of resolving position to within one character position . |
| 26 | It was a small station in a rural area with very few employees . |
| 27 | The main reason for the closure of Redheugh is that ‘ it is in the wrong area with very few young people now coming from the local community , ’ said an Salvation Army statement . |
| 28 | In practice , the absence of a precise definition has given rise to surprisingly few problems and to even fewer reported cases . |
| 29 | Although he died in 1940 at the age of 35 , he had in the space of very few years produced a quite prodigious range of political and literary texts . |
| 30 | The plane crossed the wine-dark ocean with very few passengers aboard . |