Example sentences of "[verb] to [adv] few [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 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 | Free market equilibrium leads to too few improvements . |
| 4 | In the example of Figure 15–5 a tax on meals leads to too few meals being produced . |
| 5 | 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 ) . |
| 6 | This function should be severely restricted to as few persons as possible . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The evidence to substantiate this is limited to very few conditions . |
| 9 | Most food imports went to comparatively few countries . |
| 10 | The addenda should be kept to as few items as are necessary for the proper presentation of the work . |