Example sentences of "few have " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some speculative builders boomed in these conditions , few having been active prior to the 1920s , though their characteristics suggest some link or other with housebuilding : |
| 2 | It is also the case that the great majority of students entering advanced courses in art and design have come from foundation courses , a few having come from school with GCE A level passes in art . |
| 3 | D. J. Wrench is one of the few to have considered in any detail what happened after the National Government was formed . |
| 4 | When Malcolm James 's book Born of the Desert — the reminiscences of a doctor with the 1st S.A.S. in the Western Desert — appeared in 1945 , a reviewer wrote : ‘ All men have conscience , but it is given to only a few to have the selflessness to stride out into battle and , by themselves undertaking the combat that has to be done by someone , to satisfy its insistence … ’ |
| 5 | There is no shortage of adaptive explanations for size increase , but Darwin is one of the few to have pointed out that large organisms such as mastodonts and dinosaurs would have been more vulnerable to extinction because of the limitations of food resources . |
| 6 | Photographs show it as an expanding , immensely complex gas-cloud , and in its centre there is a pulsar , one of the few to have been identified optically . |
| 7 | For a few to have money in abundance and others too little is the root of all social ills : it is the differential which results in unrest , riot , war , discrimination , class systems , crime , snobbery : the belief that one man is of more intrinsic value than another for reasons other than his temperament , his moral qualities , and his likeability . |
| 8 | Inevitably , I noted these criticisms were rarely in relation to what he had said ( few had actually read the book ) , but rather were expressions of shocked outrage that he had failed to keep silent and say nothing at all . |
| 9 | A few had turned on their sides in the hay and cradled their heads on their arms . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Few had been abroad , despite the frequent German and Hungarian names displayed Texas-fashion outside their houses . |
| 12 | Two years ago I planted over sixty daffodils , they all seem to have come up , produced plenty of foliage , quite a few had flower buds , but only a handful managed to actually flower . |
| 13 | England had alerted her ; so many people she had met there affected kindness but so few had warmth . |
| 14 | Few had any experience of the industry they were investing in . |
| 15 | Quite a few had chosen to be self-employed even though working for someone . |
| 16 | A few had attended the courses on the handling of paperwork . |
| 17 | Few had considered this and a number who had previously chosen evenings changed their answers after reflecting on this follow-up question . |
| 18 | Few had any experience of combat , although Dave Kershaw had served as a volunteer during the Spanish Civil War . |
| 19 | Very few had an IQ below 100 : the lower half of the ability range was simply not represented in these schools . |
| 20 | Some were quite healthy , but more than a few had measles . |
| 21 | In fact , until recently few had any serious trouble getting support for research , but now times are getting a bit harder and the peer review system may be more seriously worked to handle the greater volume competition . |
| 22 | Although Smith 's contemporaries held him in high regard for his remarkable administrative skill and consummate powers of conciliation , few had any understanding of his real scientific achievement until the Academy 's prize brought him posthumous international recognition . |
| 23 | To me all the cows looked similar — small and black all over although I did recognize that some had longer horns and a few had none at all . |
| 24 | On my first visit to the village I was unable to find any of its vines and when I asked several people from the larger Champagne houses , few had even heard of its vineyards , let alone of their elevated status . |
| 25 | There were also some comments about homosexual authors and a few feeble attempts to refute allegations about Labour authorities — not that Labour authorities had not promoted homosexuality , but that only a few had and they had not spent millions of pounds doing it . |
| 26 | Some of the big London agencies were circling like bees round honey and a few had actually offered to ‘ buy ’ me from John . |
| 27 | They found that while nearly everyone had heard of gonorrhoea and AIDS , only a few had heard of the far more common chlamydial and trichomoniasis infections . |
| 28 | The reality was that few had attained that ambition though some had tried . |
| 29 | UK deregulation meant that the smaller , traditional banks suddenly had to compete on a global scale , and very few had the financial power necessary . |
| 30 | In the rush for funds or to exploit the fusion fanaticism , few had the time or inclination to look beyond the surface and see the shaky foundations beneath . |