Example sentences of "[prep] few [noun] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Conversely , musculo-skeletal problems , which account for few deaths of those aged 65 + , are a major cause of disability in the community . |
| 2 | He was a man of few words in any case , Maggie noted . |
| 3 | Groups with few functions of this kind ( such as technicians , scientists , teachers or many professionals ) are distinguished as potential allies of the working class in promoting socialism . |
| 4 | Handbells , although very common in the United States , are to be found in few churches in this country , except where they are used by bellringers in connection with change-ringing . |
| 5 | For the hundreds of thousands of Spanish — and non-Spanish — democrats and leftists who fought and died in the Civil War or in the horrendous repression that followed , the forces against which they struggled differed in few essentials from those that had recently brought dictatorship and oppression to Italy , Germany and Austria . |