Example sentences of "relatively few " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Of the illustrations in any general book relatively few are in colour ; a careful author is bound to consider which works suffer least from being reproduced in black and white . |
| 2 | As he now wistfully recalls , there were relatively few other supporters for the idea when he and the late David Gray , the ex-correspondent of The Guardian , who became ITF General Secretary , launched their Olympic campaign almost ten years before gold medals were again being presented to tennis players in Seoul in 1988 . |
| 3 | In the long term , provided care is taken , there should be relatively few problems . |
| 4 | Relatively few influential activists would now quarrel with the recognition that markets are an effective way of generating wealth and indicating consumer preferences . |
| 5 | Superficially , Mr Akhtar 's compromise has appeal in a liberal/secular society because it is designed to protect human sensitivities which we all recognise , rather than to appease a deity in whom relatively few believe . |
| 6 | Relatively few members of the public have been killed in Britain by industrial accidents in recent years . |
| 7 | Saab similarly sells relatively few cars in the US , though its numbers have been rising dramatically . |
| 8 | He was one of those relatively few actors — Ian McKellen and Simon Callow are others — who somehow boost the confidence of regular theatregoers by taking the opportunity of a free evening to watch fellow actors at work . |
| 9 | Given that usefulness was rated on an eleven-point scale ( 0 to 10 ) we might expect that relatively few would rate television and the press exactly equal . |
| 10 | Indeed there are so many newspapers in contrast to the two television networks , that relatively few voters ( as a percentage ) read even the best-selling paper . |
| 11 | There have been relatively few books written by senior officers of ‘ the other side ’ , and this certainly provides a commentary that will interest historians of the 1939–1945 air war . |
| 12 | But we employ thirty thousand people and therefore one has to look after the majority , however hard it may be on a relatively few — one thousand people in that particular case . |
| 13 | Surveys of sheep farmers in England and Wales have found that relatively few suffer significant losses of lambs to foxes . |
| 14 | REVIEWING Government policy and achievements in several areas of concern , the Friends of the Earth report finds ‘ some good intentions but relatively few actions to back up the words ’ . |
| 15 | It has become increasingly important to carefully compare interest rates and terms offered by the various lenders on their myriad of products , particularly while base rates are high and lenders are in fierce competition to attract the relatively few people willing to brave the stagnant property market . |
| 16 | Relatively few had bothered to examine Green Party policy in detail , and most were unaware that the party was hostile to the EC and proposed reducing consumption in the interests of conservation . |
| 17 | However , generally speaking , of the numerous ancient metallic artefacts still in existence , relatively few can be provenanced purely through elemental analysis . |
| 18 | The effect of restricting the offence to reckless driving , a restriction which was enacted in 1977 ( previously it had included dangerous driving , a less demanding standard ) , has been that relatively few convictions for this offence are obtained . |
| 19 | Fortunately , however , most of them are closely related to others , and the separate characteristics which concern us are relatively few in number . |
| 20 | Relatively few Roman buildings have survived in anything like a complete state , and coins therefore offer an unrivalled source of information regarding the appearance of ancient cities , as well as an invaluable tool for archaeologists in their efforts to reconstruct classical buildings from those remains which may survive . |
| 21 | But identification is more difficult when relatively few portraits in the round have survived . |
| 22 | Catholics in America were relatively few , often strangers and outsiders , but they possessed the truth . |
| 23 | ‘ However , the tax difference is small and affects relatively few people . |
| 24 | Relatively few people incur a capital gains tax bill because of index linking and the offsetting effect of the personal tax allowance . |
| 25 | It concluded that GPs in Britain referred relatively few patients to hospitals , handling many cases themselves . |
| 26 | Surprisingly , relatively few women saw sheepdog work as a useful contribution they could make to the farm . |
| 27 | The team processes cases more quickly and closes them earlier ; of those that remain open , relatively few are reassessed , but cases tend not to be kept open for ‘ monitoring only ’ . |
| 28 | After completion of assessment , cases are kept open , though with fewer re-assessment episodes , and of those which are closed there are relatively few re-referrals . |
| 29 | This showed that in practice relatively few , one in ten , of those who had spent any time in residential homes were thought to have been admitted ‘ too late ’ ; this proportion was a quarter for those who had not spent any time in a residential home . |
| 30 | The bare necessities for successful bricklaying are relatively few . |