Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] few [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ONly very few cells in preparations from unstimulated monocytes expressed tumour necrosis factor or interleukin 1 mRNA , while the number of positive cells and the signal intensity increased significantly in preparations of cells stimulated with LPS . |
| 2 | When there has been little substantial work done on course aims and objectives , and just as few examples of documented course aims and objectives at institutional level , it may seem anomalous that evaluation could be attempted or studied in any significant way . |
| 3 | In the industrial sector , for example , in textiles , there are still relatively few women on the shop-floor . |
| 4 | In addition to becoming one of the leading but still very few practitioners of neo-classical history painting , Angelica Kauffman participated in the movement to decorate with specially painted panels the newly built , Robert Adam-designed country houses of those growing rich on the exploitation of agriculture at home and slavery abroad . |
| 5 | Those under 17 years of age will not be eligible ; also very few women over the age of 65 ( possibly only 4 per cent ) and only 7 per cent of women in skilled and unskilled manual occupations have their own cars . |
| 6 | Probably very few diaries of this sort are kept these days . |
| 7 | There are far too few structures for democratic representation and control over union education , so that decision-making depends mostly on a smaller number of individuals . |
| 8 | There are far too few illustrations for the size of the volume : ideally a dictionary of this size should contain many more , displayed in either date , alphabetical or country order , or perhaps in a comparative sequence . |
| 9 | The Oxford economists , Bacon and Eltis , found a receptive audience across the political spectrum for their diagnosis that Britain was generating far too few producers of wealth . |
| 10 | The Cambridge Board also had its own resident tutor in the county even thus few opportunities for development were missed in the county even though thy LEAs support was limited to specific grant-aid for classes and courses provided by the district and the Cambridge Board . |
| 11 | So why are there so few women in senior positions ? |
| 12 | Suitable weather conditions , ie adequate cloud cover , were considered essential for these risky daylight raids and unfortunately very few days in May and June proved to be usable . |
| 13 | Indeed very few presidents in the last half century have accomplished much in the way of substantial policy change . |
| 14 | The effect of restricting the offence to reckless driving , a restriction which was enacted in 1977 ( previously it had included dangerous driving , a less demanding standard ) , has been that relatively few convictions for this offence are obtained . |
| 15 | But it 's obvious from a quick glance that that plan that in fact a number of those settlements are already coalescing in the form of a definition of a one kilometre cordon around the the village and there are actually very few areas outside of the greenbelt in that zone which could possibly accommodate a new settlement of the size we 're contemplating , without causing coalescence . |