Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] [adv] few [noun] " in BNC.

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1 There were too many working hours for too few police as it was without letting any be wasted unnecessarily .
2 Conversely , some people are introverted , and seek out relationships with very few people and then only on their own terms .
3 In these studies , multiple treatment variables with relatively few patients in each risk factor group have precluded detection of changes in the healing rate associated with non-pharmacological risk factors whose effects are usually smaller than those due to ulcer therapy .
4 Ramblers With very few exceptions , the ramblers are distinguished from the climbers by flowering in one display of bloom and then no more , on long flexible stems that have developed the year before .
5 Some managers who carry a smaller team of paid workers with only few volunteers have indeed shown support for the new breed of ‘ unemployed ’ worker , in order to broaden the CAB volunteer base .
6 There were too many organizational structures with too few members and even less real action .
7 However , most of these were skeletal structures with very few members .
8 There are still plenty of waters with relatively few people on them and some of them contain some eye opening fish .
9 The House has , however , departed from its own previous decisions in very few cases .
10 In the past , companies put ‘ great responsibility in the hands of very few managers who became ‘ all-rounders ’ covering large areas both in terms of product and geography' .
11 Racecourses , in an effort to win more of the levy pot , lay on too many races with too few horses .
12 It makes unarguable sense to concentrate materials purchases as much as is commercially desirable and to obtain supplies from as few sources as possible .
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