Example sentences of "[noun sg] have [vb pp] few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another problem is that the administration has given few details on the cash that it will put up to induce mining companies to begin new ventures . |
| 2 | The strikers returned to work having won few concessions . |
| 3 | Marjorie Bilbow , in Cinema TV Today , described the production as ‘ very plodding and unimaginative ’ , and Clyde Jeavons wrote in the British Film Institute 's Monthly Film Bulletin , ‘ Apart from accommodating a number of half-hearted and totally unmemorable songs and dance routines , William Sterling has taken few liberties with the original narrative , but at the same time he has divested it of both its charm and its potential for cinematic comic invention . |
| 4 | Within moments of climbing on board , Kelly could see why Billy Liar had won few friends at the yard . |
| 5 | A laissez-faire approach of non-intervention has had few adherents in the past , since most economists have accepted that theory and evidence do suggest that matters can not be left entirely to the market . |
| 6 | The government has given few details of its hoarding scheme . |
| 7 | The Soviet Union had made few preparations for occupation of north Korea in August 1945 . |
| 8 | Certainly for the king who died , and for the politicians who survived , the last two years of the reign had given few grounds for pleasure , in sharp contrast to the enormous activity and success of the previous decade . |
| 9 | This has been because social psychology has had few ways of handling the macro-level political , economic and social change which has been of such great interest to sociologists . |
| 10 | The country has made few preparations for civil defence . |
| 11 | While the deal with Caterpillar has yet to be finalised , the Austrian venture has produced few orders . |
| 12 | His isolated Ottery childhood had provided few opportunities for exploring the possibilities of friendship . |
| 13 | Unemployment was higher in Torbay than nationally and the DHA had provided few opportunities for work , most of its effort going into the operation of a light industrial unit at Newton Abbot . |
| 14 | This infill bears few craters , and only a few craters have been partially obscured , indicating that the whole Caloris basin since its creation has suffered few impacts and is therefore comparatively recent . |
| 15 | Time had left few furrows on that bull strong face , sunburnt like his sinewy neck … . |