Example sentences of "few women " in BNC.
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| 1 | The screening will follow a Guardian Talk with Lynda La Plante , one of the few women to have established herself in television drama as a writer . |
| 2 | For a few women — particularly those who have rather heavy periods or any history of pelvic infection — IUDs are not satisfactory . |
| 3 | A few women notice heavier periods . |
| 4 | For a few women , such as those who have had repeated miscarriages , intercourse may have to be limited . |
| 5 | Only a few women were on equal terms with their husbands and they recognised their relationships as exceptional . |
| 6 | Few women brought up in India can truthfully say that they have never felt Sharam . |
| 7 | Very few women as smart and cocksure as that one arrived at Stowerton station , even from London , even in the height of summer . |
| 8 | It was an unprecedented public appearance by the ultimate grey man in front of a deeply critical and anxious audience of greyish men ( and a few women ) . |
| 9 | One reason , perhaps , why so few women choose a life in politics ? |
| 10 | Many men ( but few women ) deny the existence of subtle impediments that make it particularly difficult for women , blacks , Hispanics and even those talented Asians to make it to the top . |
| 11 | ‘ And there are very very few women willing to take old people in these days , not with the pension . |
| 12 | She was one of few women to comment on Ashdown the hunk : ‘ I prefer the darker type , you know , with smouldering eyes . ’ |
| 13 | Surprisingly , relatively few women saw sheepdog work as a useful contribution they could make to the farm . |
| 14 | Very few women took part in training , which was surprising when one considers how important a part many of them played on the farm . |
| 15 | Most full-time political representatives in Cuba are men , with very few women standing for election and even fewer succeeding . |
| 16 | Although they had certain rights especially under equity law , few women were willing to go to court against their husbands At lower levels of society the forms of marriage tended to be more relaxed . |
| 17 | However , even after excluding these infective causes and any anatomical reasons ( it has been suggested , for instance , that a ‘ pouting ’ urethral meatus in women can give rise to recurrent urethral symptoms , and a urethral caruncle , a tiny button of sensitive flesh at the urethral opening , can certainly cause a similar discomfort ) , there remain a few women for whom no predisposing factor can be elicited . |
| 18 | One possible factor in the success of some of these marriages is that quite a few women do seem to get a kick out of seeing men dressed up in women 's clothing , though I do n't know why . |
| 19 | The people heading for the square were mostly men although there were a few women , dressed in black . |
| 20 | The fact that we had a more open policy over those ten years has actually infiltrated into or irrigated the BBC and ITV , but you will still see a great area of editorial heads , or heads of departments , the equivalents of the commissioning editors , the executive heads , where there are very few women . |
| 21 | In the industrial sector , for example , in textiles , there are still relatively few women on the shop-floor . |
| 22 | A high earner who is paid more than the Upper Earnings Limit ( UEL ) each week does not pay any more contributions ( there are very few women in this position ) . |
| 23 | It was , not surprisingly , the wettest June this century Against this background , New Scientist was fairly tranquil , printing articles on conserving the New Forest and the wilds of Snowdonia and finding out that , though meeting with difficulties , few women in science would have changed circumstances particularly . |
| 24 | He ( I 'm sure of the pronoun , since all too few women carry the initials C ENG , MIEE , after their names ) refers to the Chinese proposal that the combined pull of the four giant outer planets influences our weather , and objects to using the term ‘ synod ’ , meaning an alignment of all the planets to describe this event . |
| 25 | I have seen few women smoking a pipe . |
| 26 | From the City came English Trust 's Susanna Todd , one of the few women directors of a merchant bank . |
| 27 | Livée played the spinet and was one of the few women in France to have mastered the analytical geometry of René Descartes . |
| 28 | However in a few women the periods may become a little heavier . |
| 29 | Sue Puffett explains how she became one of Britain 's few women thatchers . |
| 30 | When I graduated in Economic and Social History from Bristol in 1982 I had no idea that I would be earning my living as a thatcher , one of the few women working in that field , some eight years later . |