Example sentences of "what few " in BNC.
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| 1 | What few realised was that diesels were more costly than their petrol-engine counterparts , and that the break-even point ( when the fuel savings outweighed the price difference ) did n't occur until very large mileages had been covered . |
| 2 | What few people seem to accept is that he might be exactly what he appears to be . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | These openings can be found by ramblers who prefer daylight to darkness and , like me , like to wander in search of them , but the black labyrinth to which they lead , the complex network below ground , is reserved exclusively for those experienced in subterranean travel , hardy adventurers who risk rockfalls and flooding to satisfy an insatiable curiosity to go where few men have been before , to see what few men have seen before . |
| 5 | But it does n't work — what few gags there are get lost in dull and lifeless acting . |
| 6 | The first step to getting Technopolis on the road is legislation to channel into the project what few funds the government has for regional development . |
| 7 | Frequently , moreover , there appears to be little concern that advice should be available to the teacher or headmaster , to ensure that he uses what few resources he has to best effect . |
| 8 | He also understood what few canvassers of the more earnest sort admit , even to themselves : that canvassing in a parliamentary election is not supposed to change electors ' minds . |
| 9 | I piled the kids and what few possessions we had into the pram and , balancing the baby bath on the hood , walked the few miles back to my Pop 's house . |
| 10 | But what few people realise is that the SAS has two Territorial Army regiments . |
| 11 | On the day on which Saad Rashid had received the confirmation of the transaction from Switzerland , he had tidied his desk at the back of the Iraqi Airlines office , taken what few personal possessions he kept there and placed them in his briefcase , locked his door , pocketed his key , and told his assistant manager that he believed he was showing the first symptoms of the ‘ flu that was sweeping London . |
| 12 | In his biography of Ho Chi Minh , David Halberstam says that Ho realized what few others did : that it would all derive from August 1945 . |
| 13 | Through their association , the residents have achieved what few can even dream of : self-determination not so much by individual property ownership as their association 's collective control of their immediate environment . |
| 14 | Well when the sirens went at the beginning , what few rifles we 'd got , he 'd er take us out and string we out along this brook , a rifle every so often and and facing one way and looking round to see when anything goes up and in case anybody come over or anything come over and er that was the initial start . |
| 15 | When they entered the jungle again , the Moi several times spotted banteng , but what few traces of seladang they found proved to be cold trails . |
| 16 | Even the , what few bits of lorries were on the road , they had a special mask on with er a shield over the top , so that the light was n't visible up above . |
| 17 | But they took what few they 'd got left on our regiment to Ireland so nobody else 'd desert , while they rounded the others up and took them to Ireland you see . |
| 18 | He unzipped his bag and took out what few possessions he 'd been allowed to bring in to the cell : a small cassette-radio and a few tapes . |
| 19 | What few cars there were when she arrived had disappeared . |
| 20 | ‘ And so I did what few dare to do , Wolfprince . |
| 21 | There are no trees or shrubs on Fair Isle for obvious reasons — what few survive the gales and salt spray are soon nibbled down to the ground by sheep , but the ground is well cultivated in the more sheltered parts . |
| 22 | As I told Heather — But wait : you should see something that will add piquancy to a bald recital of what few facts are known . ’ |
| 23 | In April the talk was of what few parcels there were being handled by road van with Regional Railways carrying no parcels at all . |
| 24 | Even when what few benefits might exist were pre-empted over my head by two strangers . |
| 25 | What few people realise , however , is that the setting for Local Hero was filmed in two separate locations on each side of Scotland . |
| 26 | And what these strikers were doing , they got really out of hand , they were overturning motor cars , what few there were . |
| 27 | Ironically all those stereotypes of male/female roles emerge triumphant — women do the caring and men get relegated perhaps to what few manual jobs might be around . |