Example sentences of "[noun pl] [coord] few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They have thereby developed few class allegiances and few commitments to large-scale theories about how society is , or should be , organised . |
| 2 | With its sounds of many cars and few birds , dawn faded . |
| 3 | Alternatively , it may be because particular educational placements have very limited opportunities and few resources for this kind of activity . |
| 4 | A Supreme Soviet of fine words and few deeds could quickly become just an irritant , a scapegoat for a ‘ democratization ’ which does not put goods in the shops . |
| 5 | There was no precedent for this holy marriage of radiant beat tunes and absorbing , idiosyncratic words and few parallels since , no matter how hard a welter of imitators tried . |
| 6 | We 've noticed that the numbers of young homeless people who are coming to see us have risen and risen over the last few months and few years . |
| 7 | In a country the size of Zambia , with few telephones in rural areas and few reporters based anywhere outside the few major towns , it is impossible to check such a story speedily . |
| 8 | It closed its European sales offices last week because , according to sources , ‘ of lack of interest from end-users and few takers for the [ RPC Toolkit ] early adoption programme ’ . |
| 9 | It closed its European sales offices last week because , according to sources , ‘ of lack of interest from end-users and few takers for the [ RPC Toolkit ] early adoption programme ’ . |
| 10 | There had always been cities providing a variety of religious , political , and commercial functions but few contemporaries doubted that the industrial city of the nineteenth century was a new phenomenon . |
| 11 | Furthermore , Curzon 's behaviour over the fall of the Coalition was fresh in men 's minds and had made him a lot of enemies and few friends . |
| 12 | Linnaeus devised a kind of Latin suitable for concise descriptions : animals and plants were not to be written up in flowery language , but in sentences containing many adjectives and few verbs . |
| 13 | The country was green and flat and featureless as they got nearer Hackballs Cross , with high hedges and few signs of human habitation . |
| 14 | The four days of the Congress so far have witnessed much angry barking by Communists and their allies but few proposals with which to attack the government . |
| 15 | The government denied involvement in Toro 's activities but few observers believed that he had been acting on his own initiative . |
| 16 | ‘ If Chief Justice Fortescue asked for a report , we could pose many questions and few solutions , Sir John . ’ |
| 17 | The general appearance of the area is a drab one : there are few green spaces and few trees break up the uniform lines of terraced and semi-detached housing . |
| 18 | THE PATTERN OF PARLIAMENTARY ENCLOSURE IN NORTH HERTFORDSHIRE AND SOUTH CAMBRIDGESHIRE This ‘ open ’ pattern of compact villages and few roads and lanes should be compared with Fig. 7 , which shows the ‘ close ’ pattern of early medieval colonisation on the heavy London Clays of south-east Hertfordshire . |
| 19 | In addition to romantic flowers , this rose has dark foliage , purplish stems and few thorns , which make it ideal for a house front . |
| 20 | The wooden articles became very popular in the gift and souvenir markets and few resorts or other places of interest in Britain were not represented both by name and a view on the list of decorations available from Smith 's boxworks . |
| 21 | At that time Thessaly , like Boiotia and Sparta-Messenia , had an abundance of agricultural land , plenty of horses and few towns , that is , little opportunity for peasants to exchange grumbles and for subversive foreign notions to penetrate . |
| 22 | For example , the historian who is studying a parish in the Sussex Weald might get more enlightenment from an analysis of the economy and social structure of a wood-pasture community in the Forest of Arden than from a comparable study of a nearby parish on the South Downs , which might offer some rewarding contrasts but few points of similarity . |
| 23 | Cities are the inverse , containing individual blocks , streets but few voids , lungs : an excessive impression of solid mass and a zero expression of space . |
| 24 | It requires a commitment to the art of loving and experiencing feeling that many women but few men are prepared to make . |
| 25 | It did n't seem likely : the first floor was in the roof itself with sloping outside walls and few places to hang pictures . |
| 26 | But Carrington did not get to go there , and secrecy was high , with many rumours but few facts . |