Example sentences of "[subord] [adv] few [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Aggregate data do not , of course , allow us to draw any inferences about the behaviour of individual authorities which give rise to these findings , particularly where so few cases are often involved . |
| 2 | There was no real communication , although surprisingly few people were aware of the fact |
| 3 | Thus although relatively few criteria may have held them separate in linguistic terms , for community members they were distinct , focused varieties with their own names and norms . |
| 4 | Although relatively few eggs are produced , the male 's care ensures a good survival rate . |
| 5 | Reference to the both Taskopruzade 's original and Mecdi 's translation , makes it difficult to understand how such confusion has arisen ; for although relatively few facts are given there about Abdulkerim , and although it is impossible to specify with any assurance the precise dates of his Muftilik , one thing at least is clearly stated : that Abdulkerim was Mufti not in the time of Bayezid II ( 886–918/1481–1512 ) but in the time of Mehmed II ( 855–86/1451–81 ) . |
| 6 | Although relatively few people inhabit the island , our small community is a constantly changing and very busy one . |
| 7 | The advantage of that would be that if the private sector does have things to offer in the way of better labour practices , better marketing ideas , then these will be copied by the B R system and in Sweden it 's quite evident that although very few franchises have gone to the private sector , it has had a quite drastic effect on the way in which the state railway goes about its business . |
| 8 | The reputation of Hautvillers has , understandably , grown from the legend of Dom Pérignon ; at that time , although very few hectares of the abbey 's vineyards were actually located within the commune of Hautvillers , some of its finest wines were made from the group of lower-lying vineyards above l'Écluse . |
| 9 | Although very few people today travel specifically for their health , in many societies holidays are considered essential to both mental and physical well being . |
| 10 | If comparatively few needles are tucking , you can easily tuck for four rows with a suitable yarn . |
| 11 | See cos very few people will actually say stop I need to speak with independent advise because he 's working in my best interests , where you are entirely with an independent company . |
| 12 | In my concern as Chairman of the Board was that er if very few people turned up then perhaps people might say that we did n't go around go about advertising it in the correct way what I think we actually did I 'm not sure how many people are here this evening , but I should think it 's somewhere in the region of about hundred and , hundred and fifty , so I hope that the meeting this evening sort of cross representation people actually use facilities which the playhouse offers . |
| 13 | In fact the survey was only a limited success because rather few observers took part . |
| 14 | The slope for women in large firms is much steeper but this has little effect on the average because so few women actually work continuously in large firms . |
| 15 | Hugh Despenser the younger had already petitioned the king on the grounds that the charges against him were erroneous and his condemnation illegal , particularly because so few prelates were present in the parliament which gave judgement . |
| 16 | It 's been all right since they 've lived here because so few people come . |
| 17 | I hope that in the short term more attention will be paid to the availability of the independent arbitration scheme , which was set up in 1985 and which has not often been used , primarily because so few people are aware that it provides a means of getting an independent investigation of alleged grievances against British Rail and of obtaining redress and compensation where they are due . |
| 18 | In other words , more people are surviving to 60 , and enjoying the kind of lifespan which has never been all that rare , but which is now much more common , simply because so few humans die at or just after birth , in the first five years of life , and so on . |
| 19 | The thing actually works as a SCSI device , but because so few PCs come with a SCSI port most people use the built-in SCSI-to-parallel converter . |
| 20 | Such wealthier peasants could easily become dominant figures in a village , because surprisingly few communities had a resident lord . |
| 21 | This is partly because relatively few businesses use Commodore computers . |
| 22 | Pressed to account for the delay , an embarrassed local official explained that the project was lagging because too few construction workers could pass the drug test required of all job seekers . |
| 23 | Dozens of boards of governors sessions have been postponed because too few members have turned up . |
| 24 | Exercise has not been included in this because too few people have a history of exercise attempts in the same way as they have diet attempts . |
| 25 | CONSUMER advice surgeries in four County Durham towns are to be axed because too few people are using them . |
| 26 | Just because very few hotels have that many single rooms it does n't mean you should pay an arm and a leg for the privilege of being alone . |
| 27 | It was generally agreed that in any case it would be very difficult to achieve because very few areas were in fact exclusively inhabited by any one of the three communities . |
| 28 | The Thirties Society has tried to counteract the brewers ' failure to understand the potential assets represented by their 20th century buildings , but since so few pubs are listed many cases escape our notice . |
| 29 | With a small sample it is not advisable to carry out the analysis in terms of individual papers since so few respondents read any single paper . |
| 30 | Since so few doctors possess such skills , perhaps we can learn them from teachers outside the medical profession ( at least until there is a sufficiently large body of trained teachers within the profession ) . |