Example sentences of "few cases " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a few cases , prisoners are reported to have been deliberately executed without trial . |
| 2 | In short the pictures in an art museum have been closely monitored , often through decades and in a few cases for centuries , so full descriptions that appear in the catalogues have a thorough-paced authority . |
| 3 | Intelligence , vigilance , practicality , cunning , luck , friendship — Levi was crucially helped by donations from an Italian workman he barely knew , and by the exercise of his skills as a chemist — kept you going and , in some few cases , made you free . |
| 4 | A few cases on legal aid , a sub to the Fabians , maybe a sub to the Nicaragua Solidarity Campaign . |
| 5 | In the few cases where the church plan diverges from the conventional arrangement by including only a single side aisle rather than the normal two , this volume , rather than the nave space , can be used to accommodate the dwellings access corridor , although it is noteworthy that in the conversion of St James 's Church , Farnham , Surrey , which is also described in this chapter , the optimum cross-sectional treatment of such an asymmetrical plan placed the longitudinal access corridor in the former nave space , the aisle projection being used to accommodate living-rooms . |
| 6 | The fault element is fairly substantial , since the Lawrence definition refers to an obvious and serious risk of at least substantial damage to property : there will be few cases where only such damage , and no risk to personal safety , is involved ; moreover , as argued above , a major reason for having rules of the road which all drivers should know is to reduce the risk of injuries and deaths resulting . |
| 7 | In a few cases people are the target , usually the result of the horses not having being handled properly ; but mostly the aggression in horses is directed towards other horses . |
| 8 | Except in a few cases it was pronounced a failure because of the need to use cheaper materials . |
| 9 | From meetings at Highlander , between other organisations and community groups , an active organisation evolved which demanded more information from state and federal agencies on the contents and safety aspects of chemical dumps , and became involved in ‘ more than occasional direct action ( in a few cases , civil disobedience ) to stop the dumping . ’ |
| 10 | In a few cases I realised with surprise my growing frustration was due to my inability to interject my own comments into the workshop ( which has been filmed several years previously ) . |
| 11 | The problems mostly arose from lack of capital and only in a few cases had any action been taken — two had recently purchased houses in nearby villages for their sons and some had been able to purchase or rent some more land . |
| 12 | There have been very few cases where microorganisms have been used for in situ removal of chlorinated , or even petroleum compounds , and conventional biological processes are more commonly used . |
| 13 | Its success is almost invariably limited to the few cases where free advice enables a businessman to make immediate cost savings . |
| 14 | If the patient takes more medicine than they need then there will be over-reaction but I have had very few cases of over-reaction and always the state produced has calmed within a day . |
| 15 | The political activity of women is limited and , in the few cases where they do achieve positions of some power , these positions are often linked to the traditional female role . |
| 16 | Usually this was because the grandparents had died too soon , but in a few cases it was because of distance . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | There will be definitional and ultimately theoretical problems in a few cases where land-use decisions are shared in a complex manner between a small group like a household , and a larger community . |
| 19 | Granuloma inguinale is evenly distributed in tropical regions , with a high prevalence in Papua New Guinea and Southern India and a few cases in Africa , the Southern USA , South-East Asia , and the Caribbean . |
| 20 | In a few cases the disease undergoes a recurrent phase when the manifestations of secondary syphilis are seen again . |
| 21 | All these complications are extremely rare these days in the United Kingdom , and what few cases there are tend to have acquired their infection in the thirties or forties , before widespread use of antibiotics brought the possibility of permanent cure . |
| 22 | This may lead to catastrophic results in a few cases of late syphilis when the cardiovascular or nervous systems are involved . |
| 23 | In practice it may be possible to make an enlightened guess as to the origin and type of infection involved , but in very few cases can the physician be one hundred per cent sure of his diagnosis . |
| 24 | In a few cases , it may be necessary to look at and take samples from the rectum . |
| 25 | In a few cases , the social worker might have to make provision for young children to be given temporary care away from home , for instance if the patient is a single parent without any relatives who could care for the children . |
| 26 | In an official statement , the BRE said that the few cases of rot it knew about were in every case directly attributable to rising damp or to rain penetration : |
| 27 | In a few cases the wetlands proved too much for them . |
| 28 | This reflects the so-called doctrine of double effect which was incorporated into English law in one of the few cases that have been decided in this area , R v. |
| 29 | The very few cases in point suggest that his confidence would not be misplaced . |
| 30 | There are very few cases where all the signals between cells are known . |