Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] few [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Advisers in feedback sessions made few references to the self-appraisal and mostly reported on their own visits . |
| 2 | Large wheatfields have few earthworms for baby starlings , with the result that many starve . |
| 3 | Flat hierarchies have few layers of management with large spans of control ( see figure 25 ) . |
| 4 | However , by early Tudor times this had changed , and strangers , though still a substantial element , were generally less in evidence than in rural parts , while natives show few signs of having flocked in to replace them . |
| 5 | European and Asian countries , where companies have few scruples about exploiting their American rivals ' legal handicap , could pass anti-bribery laws of their own and TI says that it will lobby for such legislation . |
| 6 | Life in those days offered few opportunities for young men and women with ambition . |
| 7 | The development officers expressed few difficulties in supervising and managing their support workers ( apart from the particular problems with clients already discussed ) . |
| 8 | In the 1970s eurobonds were typically placed in managed accounts , international investors had few alternatives to eurobonds , and there was high demand for bonds , all these factors suggesting ease of entry . |
| 9 | Surface waters retain few algae from the summer crop ; there is little light , and the amount present is insufficient to stimulate the cells to division . |
| 10 | In England and Wales , most of the major housing associations ' tenants have few rights of democratic control over their landlords . |
| 11 | Whatever the style , congregations show few inhibitions in facial expression and in their use of the body to express devotion . |
| 12 | Although most trees produce few seeds in any year , the energy stored in each seed is sufficient for a seedling to grow for several weeks with little or no photosynthesis . |
| 13 | But it is true that , with some 70% of outstanding shares on the Tokyo Stock Exchange in the vaults of friendly business partners , Japanese firms are under little pressure to increase dividends and their managements have few fears of being replaced in a sudden stockmarket coup . |
| 14 | As Orcs keep few records of any kind it is uncertain what happened to Gorbad . |
| 15 | In other respects the Liberals introduced few changes in education . |
| 16 | Most Americans had few regrets about Batista , but the Eisenhower administration watched Castro carefully . |
| 17 | Beat work and manning the Dock gates produced few opportunities for praise . |
| 18 | However , until very recently , the leading ethnographers of the police made few disclosures on the difficulties they encountered , implying that their entry into the field and relations with police officers were unproblematic . |
| 19 | Almost entirely agricultural in the past , records show few references to other occupations , but a brickmaker lived in Sancton in 1851 . |
| 20 | Apart from the Labour party and public-sector trade unions , the nationalized industries had few friends by 1979 . |
| 21 | Although the students had few problems in discerning a variety of viable strategies for presenting new lexis in such a way that learners might be thought to be able to perceive its meaning without the intervention of English , the areas of structure and discourse proved less tractable . |