Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] [conj] few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE BUDGET provided few crumbs of comfort for Scotland 's unemployed , with only one in 26 people out of work north of the Border benefiting from the measures , according to an analysis by Henry McLeish , Labour 's Scottish affairs spokesman . |
| 2 | True , there were few creature comforts behind the wheel and few concessions from the car itself once you were on the move . |
| 3 | Resistance , other than to the organocholorines , is confined so far to only five important malaria vectors so the potential for chemical control still exists in many parts of the world It is very easy to advocate the use of alternatives to these chemicals but if you examine those for vector control in detail you will find that most are directed against the aquatic stages of the mosquito and few cases of adequate malaria control by such an attack on any significant scale can be cited . |
| 4 | Abbey National might be feeling perky at the moment but few others of the major players share its rosy view . |
| 5 | It is perhaps because of the unpredictable nature of the outcome that few cases come to court on ultra vires conditions . |
| 6 | For the few hours , the day or few days ' duration of the " event " , their labour force at the location in question increases many times in size . |
| 7 | Had me tea last night and the beer and few sandwiches last night . |
| 8 | Gould still intended to do a lot of collecting on the Yarrundi-side of the Liverpool Range , but the main focus of his efforts was to be across the mountains , on the remote plains around the Namoi and Mokai rivers , an area of the interior that few settlers had yet penetrated . |
| 9 | It was designed as a more effective replacement for the Police Complaints Board ( PCB ) which the public appeared to have lost faith in due to the fact that few complaints were ever substantiated , and that all investigations were carried out by the police themselves . |
| 10 | But formal requirements of this kind were merely a recognition of reality , of the fact that few diplomats could hope to live on their salaries . |
| 11 | This potential for improving the quality of teaching and learning that underlies LMS probably accounts for the fact that few educationalists are opposed to it in principle . |
| 12 | Despite resistance of markets to novelty and indeed diversity and the fact that few mills can handle a diversity of timbers , the advent of techniques for pulping mixtures of species means that the diversity of the rain forest becomes less of a problem . |
| 13 | 1.4 We should now immediately take account of the fact that few words serve solely to identify entities that a speaker wishes to mention . |
| 14 | The control of Parliament is perhaps even better illustrated by the fact that few pieces of legislation have been lost in the Commons in the ten years since Mrs Thatcher became prime minister — the Shops Bill comes to mind , but there is talk of its reintroduction in a future session . |
| 15 | Moreover , how important you think it is to justify your assertions will depend partly on what sort of writing you are engaged in ; a film review in a newspaper , for instance , is a genre where few assertions are justified . |
| 16 | Corporate executives contemplating the possibility of being required to commit corporate crimes know that they face a regulatory agency which for the most part will be unable to detect what is going on , and in the minority of cases when it does , it will have no heart and few resources to pursue the matter into the criminal courts . |
| 17 | By 1900 no gentleman and few ladies would have gone out without a smart , tightly furled umbrella of black silk with a touch of silver on the handle . |
| 18 | Primitive their house certainly was , with its earthen floor , mud walls , thatched roof and rude furniture ; but it was imbued by those two remarkable and lovable people with a warmth that few homes can ever have equalled . |
| 19 | However , to Claudia , Dana was part of her — together they formed a whole that few sisters could hope to achieve . |
| 20 | These systems are ‘ user friendly ’ ( much used on home and hobby computers ) ; and a forecasting model , once built and tested , will produce consistently accurate results : a claim that few accountants could make ! |
| 21 | But informal co-optation is a mechanism that few bureaucracies seem able to dispense with , though who benefits most , client group or administrative agency , will depend on the political system in which such relationships are found . |
| 22 | My first machine was second-hand , £10 , with no instructions , no tuition and few patterns or magazines . |
| 23 | Open OLTP monitors , including IBM 's CICS/6000 , NCR 's TopEnd , AT&T 's Tuxedo and Transarc 's Encina , will be supported as part of the X/A Distributed Transaction support — no matter that few customers seem to have built many applications in anger with such products , Sybase says it just loves standards to death these days ! |
| 24 | Open transaction processing monitors , including IBM 's CICS/6000 , NCR 's TopEnd , Unix System Laboratories Inc 's Tuxedo and Transarc Inc 's Encina , will be supported as part of the X/A Distributed Transaction Support — no matter that few customers seem to have built many applications in anger with such products , Sybase says it just loves standards to death these days ! |
| 25 | He is a widower , with no family and few interests outside the hotel : as a result , he is prepared to work for long hours and generally acts as night porter during the week . |
| 26 | There was no short cut : farming was an art and few men had it unless they 'd come by it the hard way . |
| 27 | Nursing is still an occupation that few boys ever consider ; this fact must be addressed . |