Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [adv] few [noun] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ The tanning process is a complicated business and it will not be possible with so few people . ’
2 ‘ We are in business to make a profit and we can not do that with so few passengers . ’
3 The race organisation was great with very few hiccups evident .
4 1980 ) were involved in very few interactions with their teachers .
5 By comparison , due to relatively few papers in major Australian cities , there is more time on assignments for less photographers .
6 She is one of only 20 women Circuit Judges out of over 500 and one of very few Circuit Judges who has never been a barrister .
7 One thousand babies later , in April 1919 , Edith Pye departed , one of very few women to have been made a chévalier of the Legion of Honour .
8 ( c ) Trading stamps The Trading Stamps Act 1964 ( as amended ) ( see SOGIT 1973 and Sched 4 of CCA 1974 ) , is of much less importance now that trading stamps are available in so few shops .
9 Velázquez 's name , for example , would have been familiar to very few Mexicans in the seventeenth century , but as the only artist authorised to execute likenesses of the King his official portraits of Philip IV and the innumerable engravings after them would have been well known .
10 But I must be disappointed at how few fungi there are yet in the hedges and copses , as I start hallucinating them .
11 Currently that 's true for very few women .
12 Because of the long housing period very close attention at lambing was possible resulting in very few losses .
13 I am more surprised by how few mistakes writers make .
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