Example sentences of "[be] [adv] few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just as it 's wrong that there should be so few women M Ps . |
| 2 | Like any finely-tuned athlete , there must be as few distractions as possible taking PJ 's mind off the serious business of racing and winning . |
| 3 | But your lordship says right , it is better there should be as few hands in the chain as may be . |
| 4 | In the long term , provided care is taken , there should be relatively few problems . |
| 5 | It has not proved possible to determine the composition directly , which is difficult for a condensate , but the measured abundance of ammonia in the gaseous phase above the top of these clouds is about what would be expected were this ammonia in equilibrium with solid ammonia at the typical cloud top conditions of 0.5 bar and 148 K. There are thought to be relatively few breaks in the ammonia clouds , though the cloud tops need not be at the same altitude everywhere . |
| 6 | There can be very few students , young doctors and especially trainees in general practice who would not benefit from reading this book in detail . |
| 7 | Despite the constant temptation to misuse an artist 's name , there seem to be very few cases where the customer was actually deceived , although this surely must have happened with some pirate or bootleg records . |
| 8 | Mr Chairman , just one quick , and that is it seems to me that there seems to be very few councillors attending . |
| 9 | There can be very few machines that do not have a spreadsheet program and if yours is one of them then you are probably missing out on one of the most valuable tools available . |
| 10 | His colleague Vic Marks wrote that ‘ we willed opposition fast bowlers to bounce him so that we could witness the majesty of his hooking ’ , and there can be very few batsmen of whom that could be said . |
| 11 | Yet common sense dictates that there can be very few police actions which a person would be entitled to resist at all costs , including if ‘ necessary ’ the use of fatal force . |
| 12 | Since severe visual handicap , especially total blindness , has a low incidence among school-aged children in the United Kingdom , it is likely that there will be very few children in each local education authority whose education requires significant adaptation as a result of lack of sight or substantially defective vision . |
| 13 | There also seem to be very few booksellers here , or their voices seem strangely muted . ’ |
| 14 | There will be very few privacies in this family which wo n't be relevant to your investigation , Commander . ’ |
| 15 | If you can find such a language , then there will be very few alternatives and so your search will probably not go astray . |
| 16 | In addition , there may be too few children in each age group for them to benefit fully from some of the recommended classroom activities . |