Example sentences of "[adv] few [noun pl] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Libya presents rather few temptations of that kind . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The attention of the news media was firmly focused on the Falklands , and so few accounts of disturbances in British cities were reported . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Why are there so few collectors of art in the United Kingdom ? |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | There are comparatively few doctors of medicine , barristers , solicitors , or clerks in holy orders . |
| 10 | In both cases the limitations of vocabulary should not be seen necessarily to imply any lack of ability for abstract thought : these animals are using an alien tool to communicate with a species ( us ) whose intellectual make-up is quite alien to them , so it is hardly surprising that there are comparatively few areas of common ground that can be described using human words . |
| 11 | Nor were the comparatively few letters of Walter Machin himself much more revealing . |
| 12 | Mortensen ( 1933a ) remarked that O. spinea was similar to O. hamula but as few specimens of either had been collected it was not possible to judge if they were conspecific . |
| 13 | When there has been little substantial work done on course aims and objectives , and just as few examples of documented course aims and objectives at institutional level , it may seem anomalous that evaluation could be attempted or studied in any significant way . |
| 14 | Surprisingly few methods of achieving this basic necessity have withstood the test of commercial success and today we need only seriously consider two types of stepping motor . |
| 15 | True enough there is the odd Porsche but surprisingly few patrons of the supermarkets carry mobile phones of filo-faxes . |
| 16 | Well few rounds of bread . |
| 17 | I begin here , therefore , with a discussion of the relatively few reports of attempts to replicate and extend his findings . |
| 18 | There were relatively few reports of irregularities : a Moscow journalist , in an experiment , found he was allowed to vote ten times in five different constituencies ; and in one of the Moscow districts there were 346 more votes cast than ballot papers that had been distributed . |
| 19 | Nevertheless , it seems clear that there are relatively few ranges of values for the numbers that would allow the development of any form of intelligent life . |
| 20 | There have been relatively few studies of modern cultural institutions outside the dominant fields of press and broadcasting , but on cinema see Mayer ( 1948 ) and on more recent approaches see Albrecht , Barnett and Griff ( 1970 ) . |
| 21 | Nevertheless , the Japanese , with relatively few elements of their three-million strong army , achieved more rapid success than they had expected : by 11 January 1942 they had occupied the Celebes ; on 4 February the Allies on Amboina surrendered ; on 15 February Singapore fell , and on 19–20 February Timor was invaded , the main force of its defenders surrendering a few days later . |
| 22 | As M. W. Eysenck ( 1982 ) points out , unless studies collect data over a large range of different arousal levels , there are relatively few patterns of results which are actually inconsistent with an inverted-U relationship . |
| 23 | Relatively few members of the public have been killed in Britain by industrial accidents in recent years . |
| 24 | Companies , generally speaking , tend to produce relatively few kinds of waste — mainly paper , say , or mainly metal scrap — which makes recycling easier . |
| 25 | We are ( sadly ) used to antagonism from some anglers and landowners but when a leading conservation officer says ( as has been reported ) that the World Wild Fund for Nature 's contribution of around £40,000 would be well worth while if boats were kept off one mile of water , it is hard to swallow , especially when you bear in mind the relatively few miles of water which are available to use even with the protection of the Rights of Way Act ! |
| 26 | The bulk of writing about academic disciplines is , however , specific to each discipline , and there are relatively few examples of attempts to extract generalities about the nature of the academic or the nature of disciplines . |
| 27 | Lack of robustness of the findings may be due to the relatively few numbers of still births in the interval classes and to other data problems , though the intervention of determinants that mediate the effect of birth interval , or some other factor can not be excluded either . |
| 28 | There are relatively few points of difference between JC and the other Caribbean English-based Creoles that might enable us to pinpoint their focus as JC rather than some other variety . |
| 29 | Probably very few diaries of this sort are kept these days . |
| 30 | Salt was one of the very few necessaries of life that could not be produced anywhere and had to be transported from the centres of production on the sea coasts , on tidal rivers , and from certain inland centres . |