Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] few [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A series of police operations in Istanbul , Ankara and Adana , mainly directed against safe houses of Turkey 's principal urban guerrilla organisation , Devrimci Sol , in which casualties were high with few prisoners taken , fuelled allegations that the police were shooting to kill with out giving a warning or an opportunity to surrender . |
| 2 | Economies dependent on few commodities |
| 3 | Organisational structures are simple with few layers and few people in senior executive positions . |
| 4 | We know little of the living conditions of the people of Halling at this period , but examples of other area 's tell us that life for the village labouring class was hard with few comforts , houses being often nothing more than hovels with earth packed floors on which rushes would be strewn . |
| 5 | Thesiger 's life in Kenya is spartan with few possessions , but many memories of life with Marsh Arabs and Bedu nomads , memories he 's delighted to share with Oxford . |
| 6 | Also , as it is late with few people around , I see the dangers to others of my speeding as being less . |
| 7 | The beginning of term trip to Keswick had been successful despite few numbers . |
| 8 | Legislation has intruded on free contracting in few cases ; particular types of clauses in consumer contracts are rendered ineffective , and in some cases contracting must be in prescribed form . |