Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are in India a variety of systems of home leave , furlough , early release and parole , but in practice relatively few prisoners benefit . |
| 2 | Rural areas do not display the same concentrations of poor housing and poor social conditions , and as a result very few HAAs or GIAs have been declared in them ( Kirby 1977 , ; Dunn et al . |
| 3 | While it could be , and was , argued that the contemplative knowledge of God should inform the goals of active life for all men , it was acknowledged that in practice very few individuals could combine both states in balance . |
| 4 | S5 At the moment very few pupils elect not to try Higher . |
| 5 | By this method very few vessels had date ranges ascribed to them ( Arnold 1981 ) . |
| 6 | Although we are in a missionary situation very few plans for evangelism and church planting are being drawn up by British denominations . |
| 7 | Between Salvian in the fifth century A.D. and our friend Henri-Irenee Marrou in the twentieth century very few names of French intellectuals can be connected with Marseilles . |
| 8 | The level of detail in this specification is currently not clear , and there are at present very few examples of contracts ( Drummond , Marchment & Crump , 1989 ; Central Birmingham Health Authority , 1989 , Department of Health , 1990 ) . |
| 9 | Of course very few machines are used for a single application and in practice you need to balance the requirements of each application that you want to run . |
| 10 | The women who were employed as surface workers at Cornish copper mines were predominantly young and unmarried — that is , unless things had changed very drastically by the mid nineteenth century , for by the time of the 1851 census very few women seem to have continued after their early twenties . |
| 11 | If prices are moving only slowly towards their equilibrium values , then they are currently ‘ too high ’ or ‘ too low ’ , and in either case too few transactions will take place . |
| 12 | At Barlow Clowes approximately £190m was lost by investors who thought they were investing in safe gilts , whereas in fact very few gilts were bought . |
| 13 | There are in fact very few areas straddling the A sixty four north east than one needs to look at . |
| 14 | We have a suspicion that very little reaction has taken place because in fact very few bubbles have risen to the surface . |
| 15 | It is submitted that this is sensible : if the party seeking to enforce the restraint were required to match the restraint exactly to the interest very few restraints , if any at all , would be found to be reasonable . |
| 16 | Research by London Weekend Television , however , has shown that light ITV viewers , who can be expected to see a given commercial very few times , are just as likely to recognize it as those who should have seen it several times . |