Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] few [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Explaining why she thought there were so few women in science , she said : |
| 2 | I was going to say that everyo ebs absolutely everyone is against war but not many people actually joined the United Nations after the war for a very small subscription or not many groups of people have many members in it , and of course because there were so few members in it , they a they went one particular way which a lot of people that had joined did n't agree with and so they came out of it . |
| 3 | Is the Minister aware that perhaps there were so few representations to his right hon. Friend the Secretary of State because the steel industry has been decimated in Scotland , especially in Lanarkshire ? |
| 4 | The slave-owners had acted in bad faith over amelioration ; there were so few exceptions to the ‘ state of debauchery and debasement ’ of the colonists that reformers were fully justified , they believed , in their condemnation of ‘ the present state of corrupted morality and religion in the West Indies ’ . |
| 5 | As there were so few Asians in our part of London it could hardly have been anyone else , but the person had a scarf over most of his face and looked like a nervous bank robber who could n't find a bank . |
| 6 | Part of the difficulty in compiling these accounts was that there were so few survivors from the coastal towns in the Sunda Straits which were most directly affected , and those who had survived were often too distraught and confused to give an accurate description of what they had experienced . |
| 7 | There were notably few clashes over elections in the south-west . |
| 8 | There were relatively few differences between the Russians and Ukrainians who were surveyed in terms of their political attitudes , and relatively few Ukrainians cited nationality policy as an aspect of the system they would like to change compared with the very large numbers who , like their Russian counterparts , were in favour of the abolition of the collective farm system and the ending of police terror . |
| 9 | There were relatively few reports of irregularities : a Moscow journalist , in an experiment , found he was allowed to vote ten times in five different constituencies ; and in one of the Moscow districts there were 346 more votes cast than ballot papers that had been distributed . |
| 10 | This was impressive since there were relatively few cars in Cairo in 1909 and the police force itself did not boast one . |
| 11 | It was disappointing that there were relatively few possibilities from Asia . |
| 12 | There were very few houses in the road at that time ; it was just a lane , leading to nowhere , and Mrs Browning was the first to acknowledge our presence by formally inviting us to tea . |
| 13 | There were very few problems at any of the cross-country obstacles , although a rebuilding job was needed on both the Suffolk Saddles triple bars and the Dengie Crops fan rails towards the end of the day . |
| 14 | Even during the later years of the reign , when Europe was embroiled in the early stages of the Thirty Years ' War and James 's MPs were calling for active English intervention on behalf of Protestants abroad , there were very few complaints in parliament about the state of religion at home . |
| 15 | In anyone 's book that is failure of some magnitude , but the fact for English cricket was simply that there were very few players of real Test class around at the time ; after all , when Mike Gatting , one of the best of the county captains , got his chance he won only twice in twenty-two Tests . |
| 16 | On Feb. 5 the judge produced a 54-page ruling which noted that there were very few instances in US history of a President testifying in judicial or congressional proceedings , but nevertheless concluded that Poindexter had met the extensive requirements for demonstrating that Reagan 's testimony was " material " to his defence . |
| 17 | There were very few Dreams about Dreams and Dreaming . |
| 18 | There were very few searches of the " accounts dictionary " type in which stemming makes the difference between success and total failure . |
| 19 | At that time there were very few courses of any kind which recognised the value of an ability to communicate with members of different linguistic communities resident in Britain in their preferred language : the only academic institutions offering any kind of training for the teaching of community languages such as Bengali , Chinese , Greek , Gujarati , Hindi , Italian , Panjabi , Polish , Portuguese , Spanish , Turkish and Urdu ( as used in Britain ) were the bodies who had supported the initiative of the Royal Society of Arts in piloting a Certificate in the Teaching of Urban Educational Studies in the Inner London Education Authority , Moray House College in Edinburgh , Middlesex Polytechnic and St. John 's College of Further Education in Manchester . |
| 20 | There were very few respects in which any of them were even slightly prepossessing . |
| 21 | there were very few places in the town where we could use telephones especially at night . |
| 22 | In Rutland there were very few assessments at £50 in 1522 , and all were prudently reduced to £40 ( more or less ) for the subsidy ; men on £60 or more could not so plausibly shed their surtax liability . |
| 23 | There were very few days of that three months patrol when the met. |
| 24 | Sixty-four years ago , when I was a small boy of eight , there were very few cars on the roads and we went everywhere by train . |
| 25 | ln cricket there were very few opportunities with only fifteen first-class counties and the Lancashire League sides , who had only one full professional per team . |
| 26 | There were very few rumours about top players moving from province to province . |
| 27 | Frequent prior recurrence ( p=0.464 ) , a heavy physical workload ( p=0.145 ) , and psychological stress ( p=0.062 ) were not associated with a decreased healing rate and there were too few patients at risk to allow assessment of the effect of regular NSAID intake . |
| 28 | And since international competition in manufacturing is substantially dependent on comparable scales of production , it can be argued that , in absolute terms , by the early 1970s there were too few workers in British industry , especially in those involving advanced technology . |