Example sentences of "[adv] few [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is a piece with few reasons to be a film , and mercifully few pretensions to cinematic status . |
| 2 | Random sampling , it can be argued , makes rather few concessions to the fact that human populations are not normally socially well-mixed : indeed , they tend to develop distinct homogeneity within subgroups . |
| 3 | This is because there are rather few ways in which an image of the incident light can be formed . |
| 4 | But Libya presents rather few temptations of that kind . |
| 5 | For among the rather few objections by Pound that Eliot paid no attention to were one or two which would have required him to make consistent , in terms of locality and historical period , some of his references to London life . |
| 6 | Comparative anatomists tell us that there are remarkably few differences between our brains and those of monkeys and apes , other than that ours are bigger . |
| 7 | In fact , remarkably few birds of prey survive their first winter in the wild , but once they have done so life seems to be a bit easier for them . |
| 8 | Think again : by and large , America has made remarkably few mistakes in the region since the end of the Gulf war . |
| 9 | There are remarkably few fumblings between the main historical chapters as the narrative is handed from one writer to the next . |
| 10 | The attention of the news media was firmly focused on the Falklands , and so few accounts of disturbances in British cities were reported . |
| 11 | Despite research into some aspects of the error propagation issue in spatial data processing ( e.g. Blakemore 1984 ; Chrisman 1984 ; Drummond 1987 ; Goodchild and Dubuc 1987 ; Walsh et al. 1987 ) , Burrough ( 1986:103 ) correctly points out that ‘ It is remarkable that there have been so few studies on the whole problem of residual variation and how errors arise , or are created and propagated in geographical information processing , and what the effects of these errors might be on the results of studies made . ’ |
| 12 | With so few studies of the impact of severe floods on river life , knowing how typical the response of the Araglin is could be anybody 's guess . |
| 13 | ‘ At the moment though , with so few experts in this field , underwater sites will come forward for consideration far less often than land sites . |
| 14 | That so few boilers in the UK would have met the tougher standards would have provided an excellent opportunity for new , cost-reducing investment . |
| 15 | I was going to say that everyo ebs absolutely everyone is against war but not many people actually joined the United Nations after the war for a very small subscription or not many groups of people have many members in it , and of course because there were so few members in it , they a they went one particular way which a lot of people that had joined did n't agree with and so they came out of it . |
| 16 | Conservative Members tend to ignore the dangers for women bus users because there are so few women amongst them at the moment there are no women at all on the Government Benches . |
| 17 | So why are there so few women in senior positions ? |
| 18 | Given that there are so few women in powerful positions this may seem surprising . |
| 19 | Explaining why she thought there were so few women in science , she said : |
| 20 | ‘ It helps to be a woman and I can exploit that when it suits because there are so few women in Parliament and it concerns a lot of people . |
| 21 | Why are there so few collectors of art in the United Kingdom ? |
| 22 | The girl had lifted her head and turned her face towards him , though he could not flatter himself that she was looking at him ; rather at the image he drew before her , that spare portrait of the departed visitant , sketched in so few lines on the firelit air . |
| 23 | While Montserrat and St Kitts-Nevis could plausibly provide the focus on the basis of the phonological evidence , it is unlikely in practice , as there are so few speakers of those varieties in Britain . |
| 24 | As the positive part of conventionalism shrinks in practical importance in court , because there are so few occasions for judges to rely on law as conventionalism construes this , so this particular defense of the negative part becomes weaker , for the exceptions steadily eat up the rule . |
| 25 | That is why so few books on the middle game , he wrote , though plenty on openings and endgames . |
| 26 | Theirs had been a terminally ill situation with so few worshippers in so large and expensive a building . |
| 27 | On the other side , men of letters have so few opportunities of applying themselves to the general practice that the rules they lay down , however plausible they may seem in the closet , would often ruin the honest gardener who should venture to follow them . |
| 28 | Part of the difficulty in compiling these accounts was that there were so few survivors from the coastal towns in the Sunda Straits which were most directly affected , and those who had survived were often too distraught and confused to give an accurate description of what they had experienced . |
| 29 | As there were so few Asians in our part of London it could hardly have been anyone else , but the person had a scarf over most of his face and looked like a nervous bank robber who could n't find a bank . |
| 30 | One might hardly suspect that so simple a task for so few seconds of film could prove so practically trying and , on reflection , so symbolic of our whole chain of adventures , attempting to keep aloft and alive a consecutive string of luminous mirrors against rather ridiculous odds . |