Example sentences of "[noun] [vb pp] [prep] [adv] few " in BNC.
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| 1 | A small number of other subjects offered by relatively few applicants ( particularly in the areas of languages and mathematics ) are also counted as approved subjects . |
| 2 | I mention this because it brought me into favoured touch with the Commanding Officer for Wales , and through him I was able to gain admittance for Richard to Exeter College , Oxford , for six months prior to his joining the Royal Air Force , a privilege granted to very few cadets . |
| 3 | This tends to compound problems caused by too few tokens ( cf. 6.8.2 ) . |
| 4 | I remember years ago being amused when a young man given to very few words came to our vicarage and burst in with the news : ‘ Jane had a baby boy this morning ! ’ still with his bedroom slippers on . |
| 5 | They reached the third round in four consecutive years , a feat equalled by very few lower division clubs at the time . |
| 6 | In the Habsburg States Maria Theresa displayed a courage and tenacity equalled by very few eighteenth-century rulers , while her son Joseph II , whatever his faults , did not lack energy and public spirit . |
| 7 | Industries dominated by very few giant firms may be ferociously competitive ; these few firms may invest at very high rates , as in Japan . |
| 8 | If the Port is indeed the landscape listed in the catalogue , it is the first surviving Cubist painting to have been seen in a large public exhibition ( the Braque exhibition in the previous year had been at Kahnweiler 's gallery which was small and at that time known to relatively few people ) . |