Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [adv] few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The effect of relatively few firearms had been devastating against a warrior race with no previous experience of them . |
| 2 | The initial concept of the T.4 was for a ‘ dual-control trainer with as few changes as possible ’ . |
| 3 | The sensitivity of Bio-Rad GAP Test IgG described in our study is almost identical to that found by another groups , but the lower specificity could be explained by one or more of the following : their reliance on histology as a standard , which might be difficult to interpret in the presence of very few organisms ; the exclusion from their study of patients with chronic superficial or atrophic gastritis in whom H pylori was not identified , thus reducing the number of true negatives ; the relatively high number of cases of chemical gastritis in their H pylori negative group without specifying whether these patients had been treated with NSAID ; and the presence in their H pylori positive group of chronic atrophic gastritis in 117 of 160 ( 73% ) , which may have been paralleled by a rise in the number of false positive cases . |
| 4 | ‘ Yes , ’ said April , making it increasingly apparent that she was a girl of very few words . |
| 5 | ‘ In London , in 1934 when the knowledge of the power of the atom was a dream in very few minds , ’ Dr Tariq said , ‘ there was a Hungarian refugee . |
| 6 | This can , of course , create very undesirable consequences : social stability may be endangered by concentration of too much power and/ or wealth in too few hands ; the privacy of citizens may be abused under the excuse of maintaining law and order , or for commercial gains ; the state may take a " big brother " role ; the business community may acquire too much political power ; or , although very unlikely , IT experts may decide that they should take over the running of the country , since it is only they who can understand the unnecessary complexity of IT systems . |
| 7 | The contents are secret and have been seen in their entirety by very few officers below the rank of Assistant Chief Constable . |
| 8 | Thank you very much well it 's always a pleasure to hear of about the Seamanship Foundation and I 'm sure that , as you might be saying , and er the need for the foundation 's fundraising will be rather heightened this year as a result of last year 's drop but I 'm equally sure that you will get a tremendous amount of support from the members and on that note which I think is er also is an important method of concentrating our priorities and on the basis of we 're extremely lucky to be able to pursue a really very enjoyable pastime with relatively few problems and that if we can get those opportunities to many more , who would otherwise not be able to enjoy and in fact frequently do n't get to enjoy any other pastime , we should endeavour to do so and consider ourselves lucky that we can . |
| 9 | Its members will be drawn mainly from the Commons ( the lower elected house ) , a few will be from the same party in the Lords ( the non-elected upper house ) and , although they remain in Parliament as MPs or peers , their role is very much as members of the executive , aiming to steer their programme through the assembly with as few complications or delays as possible . |
| 10 | It was a small station in a rural area with very few employees . |
| 11 | In practice , the absence of a precise definition has given rise to surprisingly few problems and to even fewer reported cases . |
| 12 | Although he died in 1940 at the age of 35 , he had in the space of very few years produced a quite prodigious range of political and literary texts . |
| 13 | The plane crossed the wine-dark ocean with very few passengers aboard . |
| 14 | Thirdly , it is often impossible to tell from the inventory whether a person was poor or whether he was living in comfortable retirement , having already passed on most of his estate to his children ; a yeoman with very few possessions is likely to have been in the latter category . |
| 15 | But they had sympathy for doctors in Sarajevo who 've been doing their best to preserve life with very few medicines or facilities . |
| 16 | ( When empty the heartily throbbing R-985 will heave a Beaver straight up and into the air in as few feet . ) |
| 17 | Theirs had been a terminally ill situation with so few worshippers in so large and expensive a building . |
| 18 | Sometimes , they enable us to extract a lot of information from very few cues . |
| 19 | As in all participatory schemes , there is a risk of middle class bias in parental representation on governing bodies , with the evidence pointing to the active involvement of relatively few parents . |
| 20 | With the exception of very few families who had the protection of the British consulate , the Jews were defenceless . |
| 21 | The crucial assumption underlying this analysis , in contrast to those which have focused on the rate of growth of labour supply and the idea of too few producers , is that the achievement of higher productivity is a prior condition for and not a consequence of a higher rate of growth of the manufacturing labour force [ cf. |
| 22 | He was getting all his own way with very few orders . |
| 23 | One might hardly suspect that so simple a task for so few seconds of film could prove so practically trying and , on reflection , so symbolic of our whole chain of adventures , attempting to keep aloft and alive a consecutive string of luminous mirrors against rather ridiculous odds . |
| 24 | One club that has shut down permanently is The Brain in London , a victim of too few clubbers with too little money after one good summer too many . |
| 25 | In its zeal to relieve China 's embarrassment at hosting a party with so few guests , East Berlin sent two senior officials — Egon Krenz , a member of the Politburo , and Wolfgang Rachfuss , a member of the Central Committee . |
| 26 | The rates at which it has dealt , therefore , become quickly known in a market with comparatively few practitioners who are in continuous contact with each other . |
| 27 | ‘ It is very much in Courtaulds ’ interests to have a wider European Common Market with as few barriers as possible , ’ he said . |
| 28 | It was good to be in a class with so few girls ; there were just three of us among fourteen boys , and as a result we all became good friends without forming any sentimental attachments . |
| 29 | Interestingly , the deputies in parliament showed no particular interest over this law and it was passed in a lukewarm atmosphere with very few votes against it and virtually no abstentions . |
| 30 | Its subtleness in so few words adds to the cleverness of it showing how perceptive he was . |