Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] few [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Think again : by and large , America has made remarkably few mistakes in the region since the end of the Gulf war . |
| 2 | She has since toured extensively in the USA and parts of Europe , but has made very few appearances in these islands . |
| 3 | He had met very few Americans in his life and his image of New York was a product of films and gialli , the thrillers he loved to read . |
| 4 | The past year has seen very few problems concerning the administration of drug testing programmes . |
| 5 | Detroit 's electronic foragers have had pitifully few outlets in Britain — but it is in countries like Belgium , Germany and Holland that Detroit 's sonic architects are honoured and near-deified ( obviously they 're too deep for new jack wank-happy US ) . |
| 6 | Mr Kirk says he 's had very few complaints about the letter . |
| 7 | If the patient takes more medicine than they need then there will be over-reaction but I have had very few cases of over-reaction and always the state produced has calmed within a day . |
| 8 | Some of those who thought the statement was true may have had very few experiences of extended dreams , and for them " dreaming " may literally consist of some recollections of thoughts or images which occurred immediately before waking up . |
| 9 | Bridget Ewing has had very few enquiries about Residential Homes ' Membership and she would be pleased to hear from more teachers involved in these type of classes . |
| 10 | Therefore , DEC has sold very few machines in anticipation of the new range , but sales and marketing activities will be greatly stepped up when it arrives . |
| 11 | On the other hand , critics claim that the government has allocated too few resources to housing and has given too little emphasis to the needs of those ‘ at the bottom of the pile ’ in the housing market — the homeless and those on low incomes . |
| 12 | Although they had checked twice before booking that there would be no smokers on their coach , the firm , Land Travel , had received too few bookings for the special trip and had consolidated the bookings with another coach party where most of the passengers were heavy smokers . |