Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] few [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ At the moment though , with so few experts in this field , underwater sites will come forward for consideration far less often than land sites . |
| 4 | With so few studies of the impact of severe floods on river life , knowing how typical the response of the Araglin is could be anybody 's guess . |
| 5 | Theirs had been a terminally ill situation with so few worshippers in so large and expensive a building . |
| 6 | After an extremely mixed summer weather wise , the spell of good weather at the tail end was almost ignored in Snowdonia , with surprisingly few teams on the major crags despite the dry conditions . |
| 7 | Nevertheless , the Japanese , with relatively few elements of their three-million strong army , achieved more rapid success than they had expected : by 11 January 1942 they had occupied the Celebes ; on 4 February the Allies on Amboina surrendered ; on 15 February Singapore fell , and on 19–20 February Timor was invaded , the main force of its defenders surrendering a few days later . |
| 8 | At present , with relatively few computers in schools this will be a problem , but hopefully in the future there will be plenty of computer time available . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | And finally the other all London game between Crystal Palace and Queens Park Rangers ended without goals and with very few chances to either side . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | They are personal ( ’ I ask you to support A ’ , ‘ B urges you to support C for office ’ ) , with very few references to policy or interest groups . |
| 13 | Until now few agreements between artists and their dealers were written down , but the decision by Sonnabend gallery to sue artist Peter Halley for breach of contract and damages may change all this . |
| 14 | 1980 ) were involved in very few interactions with their teachers . |
| 15 | Even more , the thesis that the economy has suffered from too few producers in the manufacturing sector rings very hollow indeed [ Kaldor , 1966 , 1968 , 1975 ] . |
| 16 | I had been to London on comparatively few occasions before coming to Bletchley , and it was still to me a place of awe and wonder . |
| 17 | By comparison , due to relatively few papers in major Australian cities , there is more time on assignments for less photographers . |
| 18 | Velázquez 's name , for example , would have been familiar to very few Mexicans in the seventeenth century , but as the only artist authorised to execute likenesses of the King his official portraits of Philip IV and the innumerable engravings after them would have been well known . |
| 19 | In a year and a half of reading the literature on small schools , I have come across very few studies of any kind which purport to empirically test any aspect of these three assertions . |
| 20 | This measure effectively makes competitive tendering compulsory for designated services , replacing the former ( largely discretionary ) powers which had been used by relatively few authorities in specific areas ( Ascher , 1987 , especially ch. 7 ; Stoker , 1988 ) . |
| 21 | The contents are secret and have been seen in their entirety by very few officers below the rank of Assistant Chief Constable . |