Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] few [noun pl] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Government subsidies were also , in effect , greater for higher-density development ( subject to Parker Morris minimum standards ) , and all these factors have combined to militate against the building of few dwellings and small estates in isolated locations . |
| 2 | And it was here , after the house-warming party which began with hours of few arrivals and long silences , that she and Hugh had finished what was left of the Carafino and found themselves in the narrow bed in the basement where this dramatically argumentative child had been conceived . |
| 3 | This simplicity is , of course , in many respects the precise object of their management , because energy and nutrients are thereby channelled as directly as possible into human consumption with few sidechains and reduction in the losses involved in transferring energy between trophic levels . |
| 4 | An appropriate name for a drama group of few words but plenty of action . |
| 5 | It is an Accrington brick-built town with few pretensions and it no doubt contributed to saving Gedge from a terminal dose of wetness . |
| 6 | This was a shadowy body with few supporters but at least it represented definite opposition to the Japanese presence . |
| 7 | They lived as cheaply as possible , permanently on the brink of destitution , and were often withdrawn , self-isolating personalities with few friends and no contact with their families . |
| 8 | He was a man of few words but many graphic gestures . |
| 9 | He could build his own Government with few debts or commitments . |
| 10 | At the other extreme , women still childless at age 32 were more likely to be from a professional background with few brothers or sisters , and with mothers who themselves married late , and to have more than average personal ambition and parental interest . |
| 11 | ‘ Post-war buildings have a relatively thin structure with few columns and lots of windows , ’ he said . |
| 12 | It 's a time for few windows and we have many , and maybe it 's even a time for living in town or city with lights and movement and not just the dead nettles of the water meadow to gaze at . |
| 13 | lead naturally to a consideration of market possibilities in which there is trade and negotiation amongst few traders and to the possibility of non-market institutions . |