Example sentences of "[vb past] few [noun pl] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Otherwise he made few changes in personnel . |
| 2 | As a trial for the Cheltenham Gold Cup , the outcome of the race caused few ripples in the ante-post market , although Chatam has shortened to a best priced 10-1 ( from 16-1 ) with Ladbrokes . |
| 3 | The development officers expressed few difficulties in supervising and managing their support workers ( apart from the particular problems with clients already discussed ) . |
| 4 | He also distributed library books to those who asked for them — although I saw few books in the cells or barracks and it was stated that few prisoners were interested in reading . |
| 5 | The 1970 Act as enacted offered few compromises in its aim to give the nation a healthy atmosphere by the mid 1970s . |
| 6 | In other respects the Liberals introduced few changes in education . |
| 7 | She had few friends in the locality , preferring to go for long walks in the nearby countryside with the family dog , until , that is , Ronald Travis took up his duties in the signal box . |
| 8 | They had few friends in France , and without them the dazzling night life meant nothing . |
| 9 | She too had few friends in London . |
| 10 | Although the students had few problems in discerning a variety of viable strategies for presenting new lexis in such a way that learners might be thought to be able to perceive its meaning without the intervention of English , the areas of structure and discourse proved less tractable . |
| 11 | His belief that compromise might be possible and necessary had few followers in the ruling United National Party ( UNP ) . |
| 12 | She had few regrets in leaving the house . |
| 13 | The serviles , as the conservative opposition was known , had few prospects in the Constituent Cortes : on 23 May 1813 the Cortes summoned its successor , the Ordinary Cortes , which was to meet first in Cadiz and then Madrid . |