Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [prep] few " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nevertheless , as an oral drug with few side effects , it may find a role in maintenance suppression in patients with chronic hepatitis C virus infection . |
| 2 | Some urban estates , partly as a result of allocation policies , are effectively one-class areas with few examples of success , clearly labelled by their architecture and appearance is distinct from the rest of society . |
| 3 | Whatever Aachen may have been in the past , it has settled down now to being a prosperous commercial town with few pretensions . |
| 4 | Rain guessed what had caused such changes : the realization that her talent did not stretch very far ; the passing of a way of life which had been so thrilling ; impending old age with few friends , little money and no certainty of a roof over her head . |
| 5 | They lived as cheaply as possible , permanently on the brink of destitution , and were often withdrawn , self-isolating personalities with few friends and no contact with their families . |
| 6 | for example , the government , via State forestry Services and the federal Department of Forestry , controls and implements regeneration and afforestation schemes but logging is transacted via the private sector with few enforceable controls . |
| 7 | Now the areas of sands and gravels have dry soils with few chemicals for crops . |
| 8 | Scotch Whisky provides 15,000 jobs , many in rural areas with few alternative opportunities . |
| 9 | It is particularly important to remote rural areas with few employment opportunities and to industrial areas experiencing high unemployment . |
| 10 | Some schools in affluent industrial districts could profit from the scheme while those in rural areas with few companies nearby would have little chance of extra support . |
| 11 | Barron and Norris ( 1976 ) suggest that the labour market is divided into two segments — a primary sector which provides skilled , secure work at good levels of pay which is reached by long promotion ladders , and a secondary sector characterized by unskilled , insecure work with few promotion prospects and low levels of pay ( see figure 4.6 ) . |
| 12 | Entering through the W door , one of the best preserved in France , on encounters an apparently vast hall with few and high-placed windows which are restricted to the S side ( the lost claustral buildings abutted in the N ) . |
| 13 | He had timed their arrival for early evening with few people around . |
| 14 | This was not a problem which American headhunters — working in a vast country with few national newspapers read throughout the land — had had to face . |
| 15 | This simplicity is , of course , in many respects the precise object of their management , because energy and nutrients are thereby channelled as directly as possible into human consumption with few sidechains and reduction in the losses involved in transferring energy between trophic levels . |
| 16 | This was a shadowy body with few supporters but at least it represented definite opposition to the Japanese presence . |
| 17 | Cream or white flesh with few blemishes . |
| 18 | Quiet and remote islands , pretty villages with few facilities . |
| 19 | Buoncamino , the Sun went on to warn its potential customers , is ‘ a sinister survivor of the mediaeval past with few modern facilities … the Sardinians treat their criminals ruthlessly — and there will be no relaxation of their hard regime for the English . ’ |
| 20 | Their elongated stems with few small leaves strive upwards until they find sufficient light , and this can be seen when sun-loving species are planted in shady parts of the garden . |
| 21 | The planner is concerned with shopping centres rather than out-of-town retailing so that stand-alone stores or retail parks with few stores are not represented . |
| 22 | receiving secondary education was checked by the presence of a divisive system of private education with few parallels in other countries . |
| 23 | Bare heads with few feathers enable them to reach into carcases of dead animals without becoming matted with blood . |
| 24 | This may be too large ( or too small ) inconveniently situated for transport , social support , shops etc or in an isolated locality in a confusing environment , eg in a multi-storey block or a large housing estate which can lead to difficulties in orientation liable to vandalism in poor repair be poorly insulated/difficult to heat have dangerous wiring Elderly owner-occupiers with few financial resources have particular problems ; others may have resources but do not recognise the need for repairs . |
| 25 | Although it is clear that mountainous areas with few nearby notable pollution sources are receiving their pollution burden from regions or countries several hundreds or thousands of kilometres distant , it is difficult to determine precisely from which source or sources the pollution originated . |
| 26 | They will generally consider construction developments only on prime sites with few planning problems , preferably a freehold pre-let scheme , using an established developer . |
| 27 | The school kitchen consistently sustained heavy losses and was locked into an unhappy spiral of few pupils — low income — small choice — few pupils . |
| 28 | Politicians cling to the rhetoric of socialism while supporting a system which delivers great riches to few businessmen , and profitable cuts to the civil servants and politicians who hand out licences . |
| 29 | High rainfall , coniferous vegetation , steep slopes , and coarse , sandy , free-drained , shallow soil with few chemical bases ( e.g. calcium , magnesium ) and a low capacity to adsorb sulphate all make soils more sensitive to acid and give a low critical load . |
| 30 | The lean period at the beginning of the dry season with few available fruit resources is tolerated as the marsupials store fat . |