Example sentences of "[adv] few [noun pl] to " 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 | The slave-owners had acted in bad faith over amelioration ; there were so few exceptions to the ‘ state of debauchery and debasement ’ of the colonists that reformers were fully justified , they believed , in their condemnation of ‘ the present state of corrupted morality and religion in the West Indies ’ . |
| 4 | Is the Minister aware that perhaps there were so few representations to his right hon. Friend the Secretary of State because the steel industry has been decimated in Scotland , especially in Lanarkshire ? |
| 5 | Make sure there are as few interruptions to the work as possible . |
| 6 | The discussions are close to a conclusion and I understand that my hon. Friend will shortly be writing to the industry to clear up some of the remaining points , which will isolate the relatively few issues to be settled . |
| 7 | Of the relatively few exceptions to the pattern two which call for mention are Chicheley Hall , Buckinghamshire ( 1719–21 ) , and Sutton Scarsdale , Derbyshire ( begun 1724 ) : the exotic façade of the former probably owes more to the taste of the patron , Sir John Chester , than to Smith 's own devising ; but Sutton Scarsdale , in part evidently inspired by Gibbs 's unexecuted design of 1721 for the university buildings at Cambridge , is his finest work , a wholly convincing essay in the heroic grand manner , in which the giant Corinthian order is handled with total assurance . |
| 8 | It concluded that GPs in Britain referred relatively few patients to hospitals , handling many cases themselves . |
| 9 | And finally the other all London game between Crystal Palace and Queens Park Rangers ended without goals and with very few chances to either side . |
| 10 | Very few visitors to Goa realise that one of the world 's great travel bargains is at their doorstep . |
| 11 | In the UK there remain very few barriers to formal recognition of the Institute 's qualifications . |
| 12 | Some were observed with every group they taught whilst others had very few visits to lessons . |
| 13 | There are very few exceptions to the obligation to make a mandatory offer when the 30 per cent threshold is reached . |
| 14 | They are personal ( ’ I ask you to support A ’ , ‘ B urges you to support C for office ’ ) , with very few references to policy or interest groups . |
| 15 | Indeed it made very few references to the Mediterranean initiative unlike the heavy coverage of the Soviet scheme to neutralise the Persian Gulf . |
| 16 | for there are very few pupils to be had . |
| 17 | The statistics in these countries contained too few births to women aged 45 and over to permit a useful assessment of the interacting effect of older age and birth order upon late fetal mortality . |
| 18 | On the other hand , critics claim that the government has allocated too few resources to housing and has given too little emphasis to the needs of those ‘ at the bottom of the pile ’ in the housing market — the homeless and those on low incomes . |
| 19 | The tax on films is causing too few films to be produced . |
| 20 | But in practice force has been used in self-defence with commanders arguing there are too few troops to be involved in guerrilla warfare . |
| 21 | ‘ Mass media ’ whose appeal was essentially audio or visual were to prosper ; ‘ popular ’ daily newspapers which — in their layout , contents , and style — made too few concessions to the reader , were on the decline . |