Example sentences of "[vb base] few [noun pl] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | While companies with factories in China show few signs of pulling out in a hurry , some have lost enthusiasm for further expansion . |
| 2 | However , by early Tudor times this had changed , and strangers , though still a substantial element , were generally less in evidence than in rural parts , while natives show few signs of having flocked in to replace them . |
| 3 | Thanks to the tsetse fly , the countries in which this beef is dumped — Côte d'Ivoire and Ghana — rear few cattle of their own . |
| 4 | A practical lexicographer , however , would probably draw his line in a different place from ours : he might well argue that phrases such as fish and chips , bread and butter , etc. , while undoubtedly slightly opaque in the technical sense , present few problems of interpretation to speakers familiar with the normal constituent meanings of the parts , and are thus not worth listing . |
| 5 | We find few mentions of the bishops living at Halling now , although they still continued to use Trottescliffe . |
| 6 | The concentration of ozone in surface air at Cape Grim can now be explained in terms of the competition between vertical mixing in the lower few kilometres of the atmosphere , near-surface destruction by photochemical reactions , and continuous , slow , dry deposition . |
| 7 | As Orcs keep few records of any kind it is uncertain what happened to Gorbad . |
| 8 | The criteria of sameness and difference offer few ways of separating out peoples once we rise above the level of locality . |
| 9 | It 's become a truism that we despise ageing in this culture , and I see few signs of that abating . |
| 10 | The Bernese Oberland and Valais have few reports of snow . |
| 11 | Flat hierarchies have few layers of management with large spans of control ( see figure 25 ) . |
| 12 | But it is true that , with some 70% of outstanding shares on the Tokyo Stock Exchange in the vaults of friendly business partners , Japanese firms are under little pressure to increase dividends and their managements have few fears of being replaced in a sudden stockmarket coup . |
| 13 | In England and Wales , most of the major housing associations ' tenants have few rights of democratic control over their landlords . |
| 14 | They tend to receive an unsatisfactory education , harbour poor employment prospects and have few ways of creating a positive self-concept . |