Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] [prep] [adv] few " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the narrow out-crops on either side of Scotland have been honoured by comparatively few publications , though their story is much more exciting . |
| 2 | There is an unresolved tension between the fact that the perceptions of mystics are seen as fundamentally important to the human condition and the fact that they are given to so few . |
| 3 | Those fighter pilots were praised by Churchill , when he made his famous announcement that ‘ Never in the history of human conflict had so much been owed to so few by so many ’ . |
| 4 | A large proportion of closure and redundancy decisions are made by relatively few employers . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | This measure effectively makes competitive tendering compulsory for designated services , replacing the former ( largely discretionary ) powers which had been used by relatively few authorities in specific areas ( Ascher , 1987 , especially ch. 7 ; Stoker , 1988 ) . |
| 7 | It might be imprudent to attach strong significance to compositional variations that are based on relatively few data , particularly when the trends identified occur in diagrams for which mixing curves are not necessarily linear ( Figs 1–3 ) . |
| 8 | For risk ratings above about eight this appears to demonstrate a fairly clear inverted-U relationship , however , it should be remembered that higher points on the risk scale are based on relatively few data points . |
| 9 | Undoubtedly , the WFS data are affected by both sampling and response errors , and in many cases infant mortality rates for maternal ages under 20 and over 40 are based on too few cases ( less than 500 births ) . |
| 10 | This is in contrast with the usual representation of a physical map , where clones are summarised as intervals which have been packed into as few lines as possible ( Fig 1 ) . |
| 11 | It entails moreover the risk that if the list is long voting will tend to be little more than a popularity poll , with most votes heavily concentrated on the best-known candidates , leaving the election of others to be decided by relatively few votes , cast by electors probably unrepresentative of the electorate as a whole . |
| 12 | Making a clean break is easier too ; critical acceleration between 40–60 mph and 50–70 mph can be matched by very few cars indeed . |
| 13 | Whilst this process may , for this model , take up to 20 iterations to achieve an acceptable assembly from a disjointed starting point , once an association has been accomplished for the first time and , if only small disturbances are imposed , re-association may be accomplished in as few as three attempts . |
| 14 | He considers taking an early flight because it is the quickest , doubts whether it will give him time to prepare and settles for the quickest later flight ; he wants to be bothered with as few suitcases as possible , starts packing the biggest he has , finds the lock broken and chooses another . |
| 15 | Conciseness — This means that the message of the letter must be conveyed in as few words as possible , using clear , simple expressions and avoiding the use of any unnecessary phrases . |
| 16 | And if one could even name it , its name would only ever be understood by very few persons . |
| 17 | In addition to the absence of state control , the ownership of the press , and indeed the media , should not be concentrated in too few hands . |
| 18 | Add to this a few arguments related to the preservation of choice , local market knowledge , and participation in technology transfer , and you have the case for not allowing air transport power to be concentrated in too few hands . |
| 19 | The addenda should be kept to as few items as are necessary for the proper presentation of the work . |
| 20 | If policy were to concentrate on the ghetto poor — those socially segregated in inner cities whose manufacturing jobs have fled to the suburbs — it could be aimed at very few places . |
| 21 | But the dozens of optical and radio observatories on the ground are complemented by very few astronomy satellites . |
| 22 | Applications of artificial intelligence based systems were envisaged by very few . |
| 23 | The usefulness of this framework was limited , however , as the dates of occupation were known for very few sites ; and furthermore , the time interval between sites and finds was also unknown . |
| 24 | The interactions of X-rays with living tissues were studied in very few laboratories , perhaps because physicists working with the new rays were not usually well informed about the biological problems which might be worth approaching , and biologists lacked the background and training in physics necessary to use X-rays in their work . |
| 25 | Some children are deprived of so few of the ‘ goodies ’ in life that it is very difficult to find effective reinforcers — very little is rewarding . |
| 26 | The annual totals are published with the permission of Islay Estates Ltd. where a remarkably long run of weather statistics has been kept with very few gaps . |
| 27 | The evidence to substantiate this is limited to very few conditions . |
| 28 | An inverted file is the usual choice , but when there are many attributes , each of which is used by relatively few records , it will be worth considering multilist files . |
| 29 | However , only treatment of hypertension in diabetics with nephropathy has been shown to improve prognosis , although this statement is based on very few patients . |
| 30 | Physics was chosen as a representative subject , not only because it is studied by so few women , and is therefore a typically masculine discipline , but also because it tends to be regarded as the most objective , rigorous and , indeed , successful of the pure sciences . |