Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] few [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You are receiving too many or too few copies of the Globe each month |
| 2 | It is probably fair to say that very few hotels in all of Italy can pride themselves on such an enviable position as the Hotel Italia . |
| 3 | The trouble was that very few members of the audience at the Theatre Royal , Brighton , understood either what he was saying or why they had spent the money on going to see him in the first place . |
| 4 | It is very hard to know for the simple reason that very few records of justices ' out-of-sessions activities survive , and although sometimes these cases were heard by two or more justices at petty sessions , even the records of these hearings are scarce and incomplete . |
| 5 | The reputation of Hautvillers has , understandably , grown from the legend of Dom Pérignon ; at that time , although very few hectares of the abbey 's vineyards were actually located within the commune of Hautvillers , some of its finest wines were made from the group of lower-lying vineyards above l'Écluse . |
| 6 | But there was an introversion to that which meant that too few readers of too many newspapers knew what it was there for . |
| 7 | But there was an introversion to that which meant that too few readers of too many newspapers knew what it was there for . |
| 8 | It is a piece with few reasons to be a film , and mercifully few pretensions to cinematic status . |
| 9 | The attention of the news media was firmly focused on the Falklands , and so few accounts of disturbances in British cities were reported . |
| 10 | Preparations for pregnancy can begin six months or more before conception with a healthy diet — plenty of fresh fruit and vegetables , preferably organically grown and as few chemicals in the form of food additives as is possible . |
| 11 | Very few ideas and very few projects of any significance are implemented by one person alone : Other people 's effort makes it happen — whether they are assistants , subordinates , a staff , a special project team , or a task force of peers assembled just for this effort . |
| 12 | There are very few women judges , and very few women on the boards of nationalized industries . |
| 13 | Too much of her usual talk of ‘ dreams ’ and ‘ angels ’ , and too few signs of either . |
| 14 | New York 's city government has too much on its plate , too big a budget , too many employees , too powerful labour unions — and too few politicians with the guts to do anything about it |
| 15 | Mortensen ( 1933a ) remarked that O. spinea was similar to O. hamula but as few specimens of either had been collected it was not possible to judge if they were conspecific . |
| 16 | True enough there is the odd Porsche but surprisingly few patrons of the supermarkets carry mobile phones of filo-faxes . |
| 17 | Their pay varied , but very few girls in these occupations ever earned as much as the 12s-13s a week , which as we have seen is what a girl compositor could be earning by the time she was about 20 , with the ( limited but real ) possibility of earning more later . |
| 18 | But very few collectors from Northern Europe or the United States made the journey . |
| 19 | The Labour party had an unsurprising and intuitive dislike of the Public School , but very few ideas about what might be done . |
| 20 | Eighteenth-century maps of historic towns often show elaborate formal gardens behind the houses , but very few traces of these remain . |
| 21 | Magnolia acuminata received more precise acknowledgment : ‘ … there are but very few plants at present here , nor is it very common in the habitable parts of America . |
| 22 | When teachers are sent , most of them are ladinos , as relatively few teachers from the indigenous communities are trained . |
| 23 | But identification is more difficult when relatively few portraits in the round have survived . |
| 24 | It had all the facilities needed by the three Services and there were as yet few worries about security of tenure . |
| 25 | The important meetings had taken place in the East , and though very few representatives of the Western Churches had , attended , the canons had been accepted as binding upon the whole Christian world . |