Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [prep] few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | Whatever Aachen may have been in the past , it has settled down now to being a prosperous commercial town with few pretensions . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | This was a shadowy body with few supporters but at least it represented definite opposition to the Japanese presence . |
5 | Cream or white flesh with few blemishes . |
6 | receiving secondary education was checked by the presence of a divisive system of private education with few parallels in other countries . |
7 | The school kitchen consistently sustained heavy losses and was locked into an unhappy spiral of few pupils — low income — small choice — few pupils . |
8 | ‘ I gather that he led a lonely life with few friends . ’ |
9 | 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 . |
10 | ‘ Post-war buildings have a relatively thin structure with few columns and lots of windows , ’ he said . |
11 | ‘ Likewise , ’ Hay the Constable added briefly , always a young man of few words . |
12 | May British courses are constructed on exposed land adjacent to the sea , or on rugged heathland with few trees . |
13 | It is an Accrington brick-built town with few pretensions and it no doubt contributed to saving Gedge from a terminal dose of wetness . |
14 | Despite a week of little rain the crystalline waters flowed well with plenty of power over countless drops , grade II–III to start , through rolling unspoilt countryside with few signs of habitation . |