Example sentences of "[am/are] few [noun pl] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are few things in the human condition more likely to create intrigue and speculation than the person who manages to progress through life without marrying , and those who have avoided a close relationship of any kind with the opposite sex arouse special interest . |
| 2 | There are few reports of the cost effectiveness of manometry , but in one study published 10 years ago , Meshkinpour et al concluded that the cost of each change in patient management was $6482.00 . |
| 3 | There are few examinations of the special management problems thrown up by library systems , and the area could provide a fruitful one for future work . |
| 4 | ( As in the usage of Dicken , 1986 , the term Transnational Corporation is preferred here to the term Multinational Corporation , because there are few corporations with an equal footing in two or more leading countries , even in the EC . ) |
| 5 | Other entertainers on the wane can often fall back on a ‘ club circuit ’ , musicians and dancers can sometimes coach others , but there are few openings for the ex-footballer . |
| 6 | There are few restrictions on the type of support we can offer but the important feature is the idea ; once that is accepted we will help the researcher in whatever way may be appropriate to bring his idea to fruition . |
| 7 | Although there are few certainties in the headhunting business , those firms which survived the 1970s are largely still in existence , and will probably continue to prosper , through building up a loyal client base . |
| 8 | Although this is highly plausible there are few studies of the skills possessed by older unemployed workers . |
| 9 | There are few studies on the prevalence of smoking in diabetics but one from the West of Scotland suggests there is little difference compared to their non-diabetic fellows ( Kesson & Slater , 1979 ) . |
| 10 | With no reserve football in Italy it 's hard for Milan to keep all their stars happy but , with Burlusconi having pumped £50m into a club which as £15m in debt when he arrived seven years ago , there are few grumbles on the terraces . |
| 11 | At the time of writing , no indigenous British originated discs have been announced and , despite substantial potential interest on the part of British information publishers , there are few signs of a clear , decisive lead being given by Sony to encourage initial investments in disc development . |
| 12 | The botanical gardens are bare and there are few signs of the famous flower festival exhibitions in the cold grey wet transition between winter and spring : on the four days I was there it rained every day , finally removing the last traces of soot-encrusted snow from the pavements but leaving everything streaked with a post-winter dampness . |
| 13 | The plague may not , however , have been solely responsible for urban decay , as there are few signs of the expansion of suburbs in English towns between 1300 and the end of the Middle Ages , and at Oxford there are references to houses falling into decay as early as 1340 . |
| 14 | There are few cushions in the system . |
| 15 | There are few problems for the pool owner with a desire to breed a new fish , particularly if he starts with healthy stock of good proportions . |
| 16 | In fact , there are few corners of the world where Madeirans are not to be found : from Alaska to Australia , from California to Macau . |
| 17 | There are few descriptions of the histological features of gold induced colitis , but a preservation of glandular architecture and diffuse inflammatory cell infiltrate sometimes with a prominent eosinophil component are said to be characteristic . |
| 18 | Relative to the United States , there are few universities in the United Kingdom : a total of 46 . |
| 19 | There are few examples of the last two phases , primarily because we can not specify unambiguously the user problem to be solved — beyond very simple situations . |
| 20 | There are few substitutes for a firm , measured article in the national press , drawing attention to the historical interest of a threatened place . |
| 21 | By and large there are few links between the French course and other components and opinion among both staff and students seems divided as to the advisability of establishing such links . |
| 22 | There are few stocks on the London Exchange that have beaten the performance of transaction processing software specialist Gresham Telecomputing Plc : selling for just 14 pence last June , they added ninepence in the last day 's trading before Easter , to close at 143 pence . |
| 23 | Beyond this , there are few similarities between the original and the reconstructions . |
| 24 | And there are few precedents for the sort of retroactive legislation the banks want . |
| 25 | There are few violations of the ceasefire . |
| 26 | There are few attractions for the Kielder tourist here . |
| 27 | Another major problem for graduates at all levels is the lack of job opportunities : for example , there are now 20,000 university graduates unemployed in Sudan , and for school graduates too there are few opportunities in the formal sector . |
| 28 | There are few indications in the documents as to when and why each of the settlements was affected , but at least in the sixteenth century we know that there was a shortage of land to provide food to feed everyone . |
| 29 | There are few places on the globe unmapped , but there are millions of people in the world who have never seen the sea , or mountains , or a desert , or a snow-covered landscape , and many of them want to experience such places because the unknown is one of the great pleasures of travel . |
| 30 | There are few places in the world where the costs are higher than southern California . |