Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [adv] few [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The problem was too many men applying for too few places ; in 1895 , eighty-seven men passed the required examination for the ministry although the college still had only sixty places . |
| 2 | Much of the expansion in manufacturing employment in the global system since the 1950s has come from relatively few industries , such as automobiles , electronics , textiles , household goods , and toys . |
| 3 | So land vertebrates in particular tend to come from relatively few sites , which become exhaustively collected compared with most invertebrate localities . |
| 4 | In a year and a half of reading the literature on small schools , I have come across very few studies of any kind which purport to empirically test any aspect of these three assertions . |
| 5 | He had come across very few others not of the Kind , with that strength of vision . |
| 6 | In the nineteenth century , most land in Britain was owned by very few landowners . |
| 7 | The very young Aplysia has a nervous system consisting of relatively few neurons , while the period of onset of the capacity to show sensitization as a behavioural phenomenon matches that of a great increase in neuronal number ; yet if all that sensitization required was the facilitatory response in a set of three neurons of the network described earlier , it is hard to see why , by contrast with habituation , it should be dependent on such an increase in neuronal number . |
| 8 | I can think of very few occasions when you would not have the time to state your case . |
| 9 | Even more , the thesis that the economy has suffered from too few producers in the manufacturing sector rings very hollow indeed [ Kaldor , 1966 , 1968 , 1975 ] . |
| 10 | But this was a term that I think was only applied to very few parents , on the whole , it really , it was not a sort of ‘ Parents are a nuisance ’ is not a general belief of , of teachers at all , not today . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | It entails moreover the risk that if the list is long voting will tend to be little more than a popularity poll , with most votes heavily concentrated on the best-known candidates , leaving the election of others to be decided by relatively few votes , cast by electors probably unrepresentative of the electorate as a whole . |
| 13 | A large proportion of closure and redundancy decisions are made by relatively few employers . |
| 14 | Making a clean break is easier too ; critical acceleration between 40–60 mph and 50–70 mph can be matched by very few cars indeed . |
| 15 | A second , and deeper , cause of the depression was that too much of the income from the prosperous 20s was going into too few hands . |
| 16 | He considers taking an early flight because it is the quickest , doubts whether it will give him time to prepare and settles for the quickest later flight ; he wants to be bothered with as few suitcases as possible , starts packing the biggest he has , finds the lock broken and chooses another . |
| 17 | Conciseness — This means that the message of the letter must be conveyed in as few words as possible , using clear , simple expressions and avoiding the use of any unnecessary phrases . |
| 18 | Free market equilibrium leads to too few improvements . |
| 19 | In the example of Figure 15–5 a tax on meals leads to too few meals being produced . |
| 20 | An inverted file is the usual choice , but when there are many attributes , each of which is used by relatively few records , it will be worth considering multilist files . |
| 21 | This measure effectively makes competitive tendering compulsory for designated services , replacing the former ( largely discretionary ) powers which had been used by relatively few authorities in specific areas ( Ascher , 1987 , especially ch. 7 ; Stoker , 1988 ) . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | But until you consider the amount of money tied up in County Farms , and the return it gives us , and the , the subsidy if you like of so few people , and you think that school ca n't have toilets and things like that , then these should all go into the decision making melting pot , and this council should not blind itself to the various options that there could be , and in those circumstances Mr I think should be allowed to explore the possibilities of the market . |
| 24 | I can conceive of very few matrons who would entrust their menfolk to such temptation . ’ |
| 25 | But on the other hand , if they are supposed to be representatives of our society , then there 's obviously something wrong , when there are so few women , compared with so few men . |
| 26 | This is in contrast with the usual representation of a physical map , where clones are summarised as intervals which have been packed into as few lines as possible ( Fig 1 ) . |
| 27 | However , only treatment of hypertension in diabetics with nephropathy has been shown to improve prognosis , although this statement is based on very few patients . |
| 28 | It might be imprudent to attach strong significance to compositional variations that are based on relatively few data , particularly when the trends identified occur in diagrams for which mixing curves are not necessarily linear ( Figs 1–3 ) . |
| 29 | For risk ratings above about eight this appears to demonstrate a fairly clear inverted-U relationship , however , it should be remembered that higher points on the risk scale are based on relatively few data points . |
| 30 | There was anxiety that judgments would be made about teachers ' handling of classes , based on too few visits . |