Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] few [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By September , the school would be in the awkward position of being the only selective school in Essex not to be GM and it would be one of very few secondary schools generally in north-east Essex not to have opted out , she said . |
| 2 | All I will say is that in attempting to develop theories about the alleviation of neurological dysfunction as she has , Dr Hari has been one of very few medical scientists to address an important ‘ black hole ’ in the research agenda . |
| 3 | Earlier atomism had always involved atoms ultimately of the same stuff ; and in the nineteenth century ‘ physical atoms ’ , the real ultimate building-blocks of the world ( probably of very few different sorts ) were distinguished from Dalton 's ‘ chemical atoms ’ , the smallest units taking part in chemical changes . |
| 4 | With so few black professionals in post , most pressure for anti-racist reforms has to come from a variety of sources , from white politicians or administrators or black pressure groups working in particular localities in conjunction with anti-racist teachers . |
| 5 | Brazil , with its 150m people , is a very large country with astonishingly few national institutions that work properly . |
| 6 | Earnings per share rise partly because the retained businesses are managed profitably , but mainly because the extra earnings are bought with disproportionately few extra issues of capital or debt . |
| 7 | ‘ It must become more focused , concentrate its attention on the core issues , get agreement with them , with as few alternative versions as possible , and get these agreements enforced nationally . ’ |
| 8 | Clearly , the vendor will seek as large a consideration as possible , with as few contingent liabilities as possible . |
| 9 | Secondly , and more importantly , the fact that some courts get by with comparatively few custodial sentences suggests that it would be perfectly possible for other courts to reduce their custody rates to this level , and thereby reduce the prison population . |
| 10 | It seems now that we are living in an era of endless chopping and changing of conductors and orchestras , with increasingly few lengthy tenures — in the West at least . |
| 11 | A media theory for the 21 st century needs to consider these changed circumstances and , more fundamentally , whether we have come , or been led , to expect too much from means of mass communication which are so obviously and primarily economic enterprises with too few available resources to tackle the range of issues that occupy today 's citizen . |
| 12 | Most recent early Netherlandish shows have therefore tended to be closely focused , either with very few outside loans ( as with the National Gallery , Washington 's 1992 show around its Gerard David ‘ St Anne altarpiece ’ which temporarily reunited the gallery 's three central panels with its predella panels from Edinburgh and Toledo , Ohio ) , or organised as in-house ‘ dossier ’ shows , as with the 1991 Joos van Cleve exhibition at the Louvre , organised by Cecile Scaillierez , who is preparing an in-house Hans Memling show for 1994 . |
| 13 | Due to the computational intensity of the system , this was only successful for the simplest of sentences with very few alternative words . |
| 14 | CFCs were developed in the 1930s and were hailed as a triumph of science — they were cheap , non-flammable , non-toxic and reacted with very few other substances . |
| 15 | The quietest month for some time on the Register , with very few in-sequence allocations — and o the rest no less than eleven are aircraft with changed marks . |
| 16 | A small pilot is running with very few governing bodies . |
| 17 | What is new is that we have moved from too few qualified nurses coming to work in the operating theatres , to not enough people entering nursing . |
| 18 | This must have encouraged shoppers to restrict their high street visits to as few individual trips as possible . |
| 19 | It is a status that we give to very few public servants , but we are giving teachers a special status because we realise that their professionalism and commitment are essential to a good teaching service . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Industries dominated by very few giant firms may be ferociously competitive ; these few firms may invest at very high rates , as in Japan . |