Example sentences of "few friends " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have far few friends and I am partially sighted , which makes me a lot more vulnerable ; but whatever happens physically , I have always said that it was what happened mentally that mattered . |
| 2 | Then , inexplicably , I had been out of work for over a year and my few friends were drifting away . |
| 3 | Apart from the Labour party and public-sector trade unions , the nationalized industries had few friends by 1979 . |
| 4 | Jack Carbery had put on his blue serge suit for the occasion and sat in the middle of a few friends , his collar stud gleaming , and the apple in his throat bobbing about like a cork on water as he drank . |
| 5 | You get the impression Ruud and Marco could have taken their skills anywhere in the world , found success and made a few friends as well . |
| 6 | As he says , ‘ I have very few friends . ’ |
| 7 | I tried declaring my own sense of dissatisfaction to a few friends and found I 'd caught a tiger by the tail . |
| 8 | Miss Huntley claimed to have spent the Saturday by herself in and around her flat , doing a bit of shopping and cleaning before meeting a few friends — only one of whom appeared to have an address — and going on to a party around ten o'clock at night . |
| 9 | He won few friends , but he won the votes that mattered to him . |
| 10 | His bluntness , often amounting to personal abuse , has won Australia 's treasurer ( finance minister ) few friends . |
| 11 | He stands alone — as Kenneth Clarke or David Ennals will confirm — and he makes few friends . |
| 12 | He chose a way of loving which was so outrageous and costly that only a few friends could follow him into his dark night of the soul . |
| 13 | How we live is inescapably linked to what we think about our origin and our destiny , even if we only discuss these mysteries late at night in the company of a few friends . |
| 14 | But Wilson , who was more visible during the election than many ministers , would be well advised not to pen an account of the real campaign — his version of the Alliance 's 1987 effort won him few friends . |
| 15 | There were good luck cards on the dressing room table , from tutors , colleagues , a few friends . |
| 16 | Endill 's habit of asking questions made him few friends . |
| 17 | With the aid of £700 , a few friends , some two-way radios , a car jack and a ladder made out of knitting needles , Bourke got Blake out of prison , over the wall and across the Channel to East Germany . |
| 18 | He 'd played with a few friends over the years but never managed to overcome the logistics of forming and fronting a band . |
| 19 | Those early days , when he shared a hovel with Linder and Ian Devine , were spent with few friends and ‘ How Soon Is Now ’ , an indication that his personal situation had n't improved with success , was hardly the typical Top Of The Pops sentiment of the day . |
| 20 | As the name suggests , the sole purpose of the group was to have fun , and perhaps show off to a few friends . |
| 21 | Peel has very few friends in the groups he champions but Gedge is an exception . |
| 22 | ‘ I have a few friends that are not connected with the group in some way . |
| 23 | There was much to discuss , including Tom Poole 's proposal , in the end gratefully accepted , that he and a few friends should supply Coleridge with an annuity of £35 or £40 as a ‘ trifling mark of their esteem , gratitude and admiration ’ . |
| 24 | She loved Bobbie for his devotion and loyalty to her in the days when she had few friends and was struggling for recognition . |
| 25 | I have a small , immediate family and up until my cancer I would say that I had very few friends . |
| 26 | Sadly they probably do not know much of the Bible and have few friends among the saints , so they opt for one of the little poems which some newspapers have on offer in a little book . |
| 27 | Pamela only had a few friends ( 1 year ) . |
| 28 | He was never at ease in large company but preferred the few friends he made through his education at Eton and Cambridge . |
| 29 | A few years ago — before 1986 — I was at a party with a few friends and we met some people who used to be in athletics . |
| 30 | We 've very few friends , Breeze . |