Example sentences of "[adv] few [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact , genetical analysis of plant ‘ ecotypes ’ ( i.e. populations adapted to a particular habitat , for example growing close to the sea ) shows that sometimes rather few gene mutations can cause most of the morphological change . |
| 2 | FOR A town of such ancient importance , Stamford has remarkably few ghost traditions . |
| 3 | I 'll do a complete costing on it but I think er the only thing is of course there are so few agents total . |
| 4 | Lucy Lippard wrote about Eva Hesse in 1976 : ‘ Hesse died just before the women 's movement gained a broad impact on the art world and she considered herself one of the unusual ones , almost a freak , since there were so few women artists at all visible at that time ’ 5 |
| 5 | It 's quite im It 's quite important in the same way , that it 's quite important that we have so few women M Ps . |
| 6 | Just as it 's wrong that there should be so few women M Ps . |
| 7 | It was a Fleet Street joke that there were so few word processors in the Post 's editorial departments . |
| 8 | APPLE Macintosh users are , by convention , rich , so few will blanche at the arrival of Mac Publishing monthly magazine . |
| 9 | There have been so few reading problems in the whole hundred-and-odd pages that the story has been free to come to life , you can see it all , enjoy it all : ‘ Dear Miss Blyton , I think your stories are really exciting ! ’ |
| 10 | There are so few hospital beds available that health authorities plan to set up emergency treatment centres in football stadiums . |
| 11 | The meeting of 1950 agreed that future meetings should be held in Yorkshire , and the earlier amendment of 1920 allowing it to take place in Lancashire ( as there were so few archery clubs in the north ) be rescinded . |
| 12 | And you ca n't do anything about it , because there are so few security firms ; they have a monopoly and they do n't give a shit . ’ |
| 13 | This may well be the most effective answer to the problem of low-interest categories , and it is perhaps surprising that so few library authorities operate circulating collections — even given the administrative problems involved . |
| 14 | Though this must be one of the main reasons why Germany has received so few Nobel prizes since the war , nothing more can be done about it . |
| 15 | There are probably few orchestra conductors who could coax even one note out of a French horn , let alone show the horn player how to do it . |
| 16 | Few people have it , but as there are comparatively few copywriter positions in London , you ca n't just waltz in and expect to make a mark . |
| 17 | In the same way that there are now few modem savoury recipes that do not have herbs in them , and that more and more people are trying herbal remedies for aches and pains , so the uses to which herbs can be put for cosmetic and domestic purposes are being more widely explored . |
| 18 | There are now few poultry farms within listening distance but , according to a nineteenth century folklorist , ‘ In ancient days the cocks must have crowed most lustily to have produced vibrations on either the sensitive rock or the tympanum of man ’ . |
| 19 | In terms of expectations of the ‘ good ’ pupil , I found surprisingly few sex differences . |
| 20 | Even in his very early and surprisingly few organ ricercari — notably the one del 8. tono on three closely worked subjects , and the one del 10. tono ( of which the one del 9. tono is essentially a shortened version ) where a canzon theme alternates with a motive worked in almost too facile descending sequences — Giovanni enters a different world from his uncle 's ricercari ; the last traces of the ‘ instrumental motet ’ have been erased . |
| 21 | Twenty years ago few tailor shops were without a bottle of gin : the men drank as they liked ; one kept the score , and the publican came at certain times to replenish the gin bottle . |
| 22 | Today few fund managers have such implicit faith in property as an inflation-proof investment . |
| 23 | Relatively few cathedral organists today are also composers . |
| 24 | Relatively few government securities are held , and although overseas securities grew in the 1980's , European equities are in fact a relatively small proportion of the total . |
| 25 | In contrast , relatively few investigations centre on the workplace — although there are exceptions such as Dore ( 1973 ) , Gallie ( 1978 ) , Jacobs et al . |
| 26 | Relatively few country people were as yet literate , outside parts of western and central Europe ( notably the protestant parts ) and North America . |
| 27 | Membranes must let in relatively few Ca ions to change local concentrations by a large percentage ; such changes can thus connect stimuli to responses with great speed and sensitivity . |
| 28 | The general fears of high oil prices , debt defaults and possible massive disruption of communications links through terrorist activities resulted in relatively few stock markets making any overall gain by the end of the year on their January 1990 positions . |
| 29 | The Aplysia nervous system contains relatively few nerve cells , but amongst them are some which are rather large . |
| 30 | Easy access to the markets of the capital for its corn , dairy produce and fatstock brought the marshland of southern Essex great wealth , of which almost two-fifths belonged to a fairly large class of rich men ; smallholders also prospered , the number of £2 assessments more than offsetting the relatively few £1 ones . |