Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb pp] [prep] few " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is an opportunity given to few to lead in the creation of a new Department of State , especially one which has so much to contribute to your own vision of improving the quality of life in this country . |
| 2 | It is important that our colleagues and the public recognise that although , in general , preventive strategies by their nature are likely to involve minimal risk , this does not mean zero risk ; an intervention with a low probability of harm given to millions can do more damage than one with a high probability of harm given to few . |
| 3 | Against this , J.H. Gagnon and William Simon have argued in their book Sexual Conduct that sexuality is subject to ‘ socio-cultural moulding to a degree surpassed by few other forms of human behaviour ’ , and in so arguing they are building both on a century of sex research and on a century of questioning the notion of ‘ natural man ’ . |
| 4 | At the beginning of 1991 Airtours had a 6% share of the package holiday market and a brand name known to few south of Birmingham ( it is based in Lancashire and two-thirds of bookings come from the Midlands and North ) . |
| 5 | Three patterns of distributions of authorship number are suggested by these my data : ( a ) the ‘ left shifted ’ pattern seen in high profile basic research journals ( Nature , Cell ) , in which over 90% of articles have one to five authors ( mode 2 ) ; ( b ) the ‘ right shifted ’ pattern characterised by few small group studies and many large group studies ( mode 7 ) seen in low profile basic research ( BBRC ) and clinical research ( JCO ) journals ; and ( c ) a rapid fall from six to seven authors ( mode 6 ) in general medical journals ( NEJM , Lancet ) . |
| 6 | But to a remarkable extent Kilvert succeeded in turning its limitations — its narrow range of vision and the naïvety of his own judgements — into advantages , to give it a vividness and a simplicity shared by few similar journals ; and it seems likely that it will retain its place as at once a major document of Victorian rural life and a minor but moving work of literature . |
| 7 | Those from an unskilled manual working class background left with few or no qualifications and emerged into manual jobs with a ‘ careerless ’ orientation . |
| 8 | Writing and directing films are skills acquired over time , time invested by few of these artists and dealers . |
| 9 | West Ham was an area adjacent to East London where formal politics during the 1920s came to be dominated by the Labour Party to an extent experienced in few other areas of the country . |