Example sentences of "[adv] few [noun pl] or [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were so few possessions or comforts in the room that it was clear Mr Sikes had met hard times . |
| 2 | You can have hardly few weeks or months go by when you see some , you know er , latest lunatic disproof of Darwin , you know , appears in the press . |
| 3 | Its members will be drawn mainly from the Commons ( the lower elected house ) , a few will be from the same party in the Lords ( the non-elected upper house ) and , although they remain in Parliament as MPs or peers , their role is very much as members of the executive , aiming to steer their programme through the assembly with as few complications or delays as possible . |
| 4 | Despite much popular misconception , there are relatively few individuals or families that find themselves in this position . |
| 5 | Rural areas do not display the same concentrations of poor housing and poor social conditions , and as a result very few HAAs or GIAs have been declared in them ( Kirby 1977 , ; Dunn et al . |
| 6 | But they had sympathy for doctors in Sarajevo who 've been doing their best to preserve life with very few medicines or facilities . |
| 7 | One of the most significant and suggestive points about the early history of the office is that until late in the period under consideration nearly all the Muftis held the office until their deaths , that there were very few resignations or removals . |
| 8 | It 's when the teachers think this is a boring , mundane , difficult thing to do , then that tends to be put over to the children and of course the disaster is that the children will believe it , and it if the children will believe it then we grow up in a highly technological society producing very few technologists or scientists . |
| 9 | It 's when the teachers think this is a boring , mundane , difficult thing to do , then that tends to be put over to the children and of course the disaster is that the children will believe it , and it if the children will believe it then we grow up in a highly technological society producing very few technologists or scientists . |
| 10 | For many years , urban finance has been a system with which very few practitioners or academics have been totally at ease and procedures governing local-government funding have become more convoluted in the 1980s . |
| 11 | Many electrical accidents are caused by ignoring common safety rules ; for example , failing to replace old and faulty wiring ; by loading too few outlets or points with too many appliances ; and with the thoughtless placing of wires or cords leading from outlets to table or floor lamps . |