Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [prep] few [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nevertheless , as an oral drug with few side effects , it may find a role in maintenance suppression in patients with chronic hepatitis C virus infection . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Whatever Aachen may have been in the past , it has settled down now to being a prosperous commercial town with few pretensions . |
| 4 | Rain guessed what had caused such changes : the realization that her talent did not stretch very far ; the passing of a way of life which had been so thrilling ; impending old age with few friends , little money and no certainty of a roof over her head . |
| 5 | They lived as cheaply as possible , permanently on the brink of destitution , and were often withdrawn , self-isolating personalities with few friends and no contact with their families . |
| 6 | Now the areas of sands and gravels have dry soils with few chemicals for crops . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | It is particularly important to remote rural areas with few employment opportunities and to industrial areas experiencing high unemployment . |
| 9 | Barron and Norris ( 1976 ) suggest that the labour market is divided into two segments — a primary sector which provides skilled , secure work at good levels of pay which is reached by long promotion ladders , and a secondary sector characterized by unskilled , insecure work with few promotion prospects and low levels of pay ( see figure 4.6 ) . |
| 10 | He had timed their arrival for early evening with few people around . |
| 11 | This simplicity is , of course , in many respects the precise object of their management , because energy and nutrients are thereby channelled as directly as possible into human consumption with few sidechains and reduction in the losses involved in transferring energy between trophic levels . |
| 12 | This was a shadowy body with few supporters but at least it represented definite opposition to the Japanese presence . |
| 13 | Cream or white flesh with few blemishes . |
| 14 | Quiet and remote islands , pretty villages with few facilities . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | receiving secondary education was checked by the presence of a divisive system of private education with few parallels in other countries . |
| 17 | Bare heads with few feathers enable them to reach into carcases of dead animals without becoming matted with blood . |
| 18 | They will generally consider construction developments only on prime sites with few planning problems , preferably a freehold pre-let scheme , using an established developer . |
| 19 | The school kitchen consistently sustained heavy losses and was locked into an unhappy spiral of few pupils — low income — small choice — few pupils . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | ‘ I gather that he led a lonely life with few friends . ’ |
| 22 | This technique can , however , give very good results if the low order digits of the key are consecutive integers with few gaps . |
| 23 | Another advantage of small chips with few address lines is that each cell of a chip only stores a very crude fragment of knowledge about the image on the retina . |
| 24 | The fear was that Britain 's population would decline rapidly , that it would be dominated by an aged population with few people of working age coupled with a rapidly decreasing birth rate . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | At the other extreme , women still childless at age 32 were more likely to be from a professional background with few brothers or sisters , and with mothers who themselves married late , and to have more than average personal ambition and parental interest . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Otmoor , north of Oxford , is a bleak lonely wasteland of sour fields with few trees . |
| 29 | ‘ Post-war buildings have a relatively thin structure with few columns and lots of windows , ’ he said . |
| 30 | The genus as a whole shares its virtuous qualities with few others in the marine aquarium hobby . |