Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] few [noun] " in BNC.

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1 In other cases , strong feelings have been aroused , and there has been one electronic punch-up. stated quite reasonably that Sheffield United are crap , and Julie Donnelly , a list member with Blade tendencies , told him what she thought of that in many words of few syllables .
2 Bare heads with few feathers enable them to reach into carcases of dead animals without becoming matted with blood .
3 Why did graptoloids have an evolutionary trend from many branches to few branches ?
4 And it was here , after the house-warming party which began with hours of few arrivals and long silences , that she and Hugh had finished what was left of the Carafino and found themselves in the narrow bed in the basement where this dramatically argumentative child had been conceived .
5 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 .
6 Will the Minister therefore consider a way to equalise national sponsorship from business , so that areas with few opportunities can derive some of the benefits from areas with ample opportunities ?
7 It is particularly important to remote rural areas with few employment opportunities and to industrial areas experiencing high unemployment .
8 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 .
9 One reason the central bank has been able to keep money tight is that the victims of bankruptcy have so far been mainly property- or finance-related companies with few employees .
10 A wealthy lifestyle is likely to be reflected in a site yielding many finds of high quality ; sites with few finds of a consistently poor quality suggest a relatively low standard of living .
11 They will generally consider construction developments only on prime sites with few planning problems , preferably a freehold pre-let scheme , using an established developer .
12 Another advantage of small chips with few address lines is that each cell of a chip only stores a very crude fragment of knowledge about the image on the retina .
13 Now the areas of sands and gravels have dry soils with few chemicals for crops .
14 The other is dominated by workers with few skills , other than their willingness to work the hours required by their employers .
15 Hedges with few shrub species , wire fences , or even no features at all , can all mark the edge of early documented parishes .
16 Groups with few functions of this kind ( such as technicians , scientists , teachers or many professionals ) are distinguished as potential allies of the working class in promoting socialism .
17 The genus as a whole shares its virtuous qualities with few others in the marine aquarium hobby .
18 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 .
19 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 .
20 So he 'd been to the doctors about few weeks ago and he 'd been repairing his shed , said there was water coming in and he went to he said oh you 've pulled a ligament or something he said , it 'll take weeks for it to clear up but anyhow he went back again about a fortnight ago .
21 This phenomenon was more marked in the three model biles with few vesicles remaining after the addition of 10 µmol/ml of lecithin .
22 Girls with few friends in childhood report more abuse , though this may be an effect of abuse and not a risk factor .
23 Quiet and remote islands , pretty villages with few facilities .
24 They are men of few principles .
25 The Chart parser thus fulfills the architectural requirements outlined above and , in addition , reflects the paring down of the graph-searching task to its barest requirements with few restrictions on how the graph should be constructed and explored .
26 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 .
27 Otmoor , north of Oxford , is a bleak lonely wasteland of sour fields with few trees .
28 Social issues , which between them were the subject of almost a fifth of the courses , accounted for only 9 per cent of the total number of teacher-days : they tended to be short , workshop-style courses with few participants .
29 These are those who have been unemployed longest , and generally speaking are very young claimants with few skills , or older workers who , by the length of this unemployment , have been de-skilled .
30 transition to turbulence is often inherently different from transition to chaos in simple systems ( i.e. systems with few degrees of freedom are not a good guide to those with very many )
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