Example sentences of "[am/are] [adv] few [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is because there are rather few ways in which an image of the incident light can be formed . |
| 2 | Comparative anatomists tell us that there are remarkably few differences between our brains and those of monkeys and apes , other than that ours are bigger . |
| 3 | There are remarkably few fumblings between the main historical chapters as the narrative is handed from one writer to the next . |
| 4 | Given that there are so few women in powerful positions this may seem surprising . |
| 5 | ‘ It helps to be a woman and I can exploit that when it suits because there are so few women in Parliament and it concerns a lot of people . |
| 6 | Conservative Members tend to ignore the dangers for women bus users because there are so few women amongst them at the moment there are no women at all on the Government Benches . |
| 7 | While Montserrat and St Kitts-Nevis could plausibly provide the focus on the basis of the phonological evidence , it is unlikely in practice , as there are so few speakers of those varieties in Britain . |
| 8 | As the positive part of conventionalism shrinks in practical importance in court , because there are so few occasions for judges to rely on law as conventionalism construes this , so this particular defense of the negative part becomes weaker , for the exceptions steadily eat up the rule . |
| 9 | There are now few villages without their complement of newcomers who work in towns . |
| 10 | There are now few areas in the world where the impact of the TNCs has not been researched by someone and good examples of this type of study are Kowaleski ( 1982 ) on the Caribbean , Onimode et al. |
| 11 | The argument from numbers continues to have some appeal in the criminal law but there are now few situations in which there may be an indictment for conspiracy in respect of acts which would not be criminal if done by one person . |
| 12 | Make sure there are as few interruptions to the work as possible . |
| 13 | There are comparatively few women in public positions , in politics or the trade unions , for instance . |
| 14 | In both cases the limitations of vocabulary should not be seen necessarily to imply any lack of ability for abstract thought : these animals are using an alien tool to communicate with a species ( us ) whose intellectual make-up is quite alien to them , so it is hardly surprising that there are comparatively few areas of common ground that can be described using human words . |
| 15 | There are comparatively few doctors of medicine , barristers , solicitors , or clerks in holy orders . |
| 16 | In attempting to specify the features of a viable socialist economy we are not embarking on entirely uncharted water , though there are surprisingly few texts on which to draw , given the size and long history of the Western socialist movements . |
| 17 | This exemption aside , there are surprisingly few perks for the RIE . |
| 18 | There are surprisingly few recordings from Europe or America to suggest that this important issue has been raised and discussed . |
| 19 | There are relatively few customers for industrial kilns , but many consumers buying tins of baked beans ! |
| 20 | The first is virtually impossible in the UK because of government legislation , and there are relatively few teachers with a native knowledge of BSL who have not been told in the past that it is an impoverished way of communicating . |
| 21 | There are relatively few countries at the top of the spectrum : uncomfortably many have per capita incomes that are very low indeed . |
| 22 | As M. W. Eysenck ( 1982 ) points out , unless studies collect data over a large range of different arousal levels , there are relatively few patterns of results which are actually inconsistent with an inverted-U relationship . |
| 23 | Nevertheless , it seems clear that there are relatively few ranges of values for the numbers that would allow the development of any form of intelligent life . |
| 24 | There are relatively few points of difference between JC and the other Caribbean English-based Creoles that might enable us to pinpoint their focus as JC rather than some other variety . |
| 25 | This is not trivial to assess since the measure of recall is binary and there are relatively few points at the high levels of risk . |
| 26 | The bulk of writing about academic disciplines is , however , specific to each discipline , and there are relatively few examples of attempts to extract generalities about the nature of the academic or the nature of disciplines . |
| 27 | A high earner who is paid more than the Upper Earnings Limit ( UEL ) each week does not pay any more contributions ( there are very few women in this position ) . |
| 28 | There are very few hotels of this standard that do n't have showers and toilets . |
| 29 | Consequently , there are very few cases of this type in the literature . |
| 30 | There are very few cases in which it is automatic for one relative to offer support and unproblematic for the other to accept it . |