Example sentences of "[noun pl] with few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bare heads with few feathers enable them to reach into carcases of dead animals without becoming matted with blood . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 ? |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Now the areas of sands and gravels have dry soils with few chemicals for crops . |
| 8 | The other is dominated by workers with few skills , other than their willingness to work the hours required by their employers . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The genus as a whole shares its virtuous qualities with few others in the marine aquarium hobby . |
| 11 | They lived as cheaply as possible , permanently on the brink of destitution , and were often withdrawn , self-isolating personalities with few friends and no contact with their families . |
| 12 | This phenomenon was more marked in the three model biles with few vesicles remaining after the addition of 10 µmol/ml of lecithin . |
| 13 | Girls with few friends in childhood report more abuse , though this may be an effect of abuse and not a risk factor . |
| 14 | Quiet and remote islands , pretty villages with few facilities . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Otmoor , north of Oxford , is a bleak lonely wasteland of sour fields with few trees . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 ) |
| 21 | This technique can , however , give very good results if the low order digits of the key are consecutive integers with few gaps . |