Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [prep] few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some urban estates , partly as a result of allocation policies , are effectively one-class areas with few examples of success , clearly labelled by their architecture and appearance is distinct from the rest of society . |
| 2 | They lived as cheaply as possible , permanently on the brink of destitution , and were often withdrawn , self-isolating personalities with few friends and no contact with their families . |
| 3 | Now the areas of sands and gravels have dry soils with few chemicals for crops . |
| 4 | Some schools in affluent industrial districts could profit from the scheme while those in rural areas with few companies nearby would have little chance of extra support . |
| 5 | Quiet and remote islands , pretty villages with few facilities . |
| 6 | The planner is concerned with shopping centres rather than out-of-town retailing so that stand-alone stores or retail parks with few stores are not represented . |
| 7 | Bare heads with few feathers enable them to reach into carcases of dead animals without becoming matted with blood . |
| 8 | Why did graptoloids have an evolutionary trend from many branches to few branches ? |
| 9 | In other cases , strong feelings have been aroused , and there has been one electronic punch-up. stated quite reasonably that Sheffield United are crap , and Julie Donnelly , a list member with Blade tendencies , told him what she thought of that in many words of few syllables . |
| 10 | Politicians cling to the rhetoric of socialism while supporting a system which delivers great riches to few businessmen , and profitable cuts to the civil servants and politicians who hand out licences . |
| 11 | The Chart parser thus fulfills the architectural requirements outlined above and , in addition , reflects the paring down of the graph-searching task to its barest requirements with few restrictions on how the graph should be constructed and explored . |
| 12 | This technique can , however , give very good results if the low order digits of the key are consecutive integers with few gaps . |
| 13 | Social issues , which between them were the subject of almost a fifth of the courses , accounted for only 9 per cent of the total number of teacher-days : they tended to be short , workshop-style courses with few participants . |
| 14 | One reason the central bank has been able to keep money tight is that the victims of bankruptcy have so far been mainly property- or finance-related companies with few employees . |
| 15 | Otmoor , north of Oxford , is a bleak lonely wasteland of sour fields with few trees . |
| 16 | The genus as a whole shares its virtuous qualities with few others in the marine aquarium hobby . |
| 17 | These are those who have been unemployed longest , and generally speaking are very young claimants with few skills , or older workers who , by the length of this unemployment , have been de-skilled . |