Example sentences of "few [noun] available " in BNC.
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| 1 | President , congress in the few minutes available to me this afternoon to speak to my written report I want to touch on three issues . |
| 2 | In many ways it seems churlish to criticize Competing Discourses as I have , for there are so few books available which engage with discourse stylistics in a manner which is readable and accessible . |
| 3 | Perhaps what the authorities need to consider in the few months available to them is just when a decision needs to be made . |
| 4 | In the developing world , plantation forestry is also increasing , though there are few data available which facilitate an assessment of environmental impact . |
| 5 | There are few data available which explicitly measure demand and all forecasts have used the number of entrants as a proxy . |
| 6 | It was expected that case law would give rise to sufficient precedents to flesh out the relatively few guidelines available under UCTA , but in fact cases have been few and not very helpful . |
| 7 | There is paper everywhere , some spread all around the office in every conceivable place and untidily on the few shelves available . |
| 8 | As far as temperature went , the cut-off point was 6°C — when the temperature was below this no bats at all were detected , presumably because they would have needed to use more energy keeping warm than they would have got from the relatively few insects available for food . |
| 9 | There are a few tracks available which combine with a valance rail ( page 16 ) . |
| 10 | Unknown to many of the trapped men , but suspected by the more experienced , poisonous gases had started to gather in the few roadways available to them . |
| 11 | With eleven children leaving to go to ‘ big school ’ there are still a few places available for next term . |
| 12 | Competition for the few places available is keen and a high academic standard is required . |
| 13 | And with only a few places available each year , it 's like a bottleneck near the top , and the harder it becomes . |
| 14 | There are a few places available to Q.T. 's who are interested in taking part please contact immediately but send accommodation fee — £32 to the Office . |
| 15 | The average brood size noted ranged from 3.6 to 7.7 , with a mean of 5.2 , but the number finally reared was often much less ; the few figures available indicate a predation rate of up to 40 per cent. , sometimes more . |
| 16 | There are so few positions available to us above grade C it seems unfair that we are being penalised for taking more responsibility for less remuneration . |
| 17 | The rather few fittings available are fairly expensive . |
| 18 | But there are precious few strikers available in this country . ’ |
| 19 | But Taylor might argue that , Chris Waddle apart , there are few players available outside his squad to turn to . |
| 20 | Their way of life involved annual circuits from one seasonal hunting ground to another , using the few materials available to them — stone , clay , bone , skins , sinews , and a little driftwood timber — with dog sledges for transport . |
| 21 | An estimate of numbers was impossible in the few seconds available at the pause , but on the return journey , about an hour later , something had awakened them and a most spectacular aerial display was in progress — the two species had reacted differently to whatever had disturbed their siesta — the lapwing wheeling erratically just above ground level , but the ‘ goldies ’ in ever-changing smoke-like clouds high above , performing quick-change evolutions reminiscent of starlings going to roost . |
| 22 | And conversely , if you find that you 're just not a dab hand at paint techniques , or have n't got the time to find out , there are now quite a few wallpapers available which reproduce the effects , but require not painting : just hang , and you have instant sponged , rag-rolled or marbled walls ! |
| 23 | A dissenting member has few options available to it in making its protest . |
| 24 | Relevant data are therefore difficult to identify and scenario building is one of the few approaches available . |
| 25 | Few markers available currently fulfil all these criteria ( reviewed in 50 ) but some have been successfully applied to the mouse ( see Chapter 6 ) . |
| 26 | Nevertheless he is one of the few batsmen available to South Africa who has a proven record of being able to put big hundreds together and this is a prime requirement for Test match cricket . |
| 27 | The memoirs are extremely detailed , yet Hickey states that he wrote them almost entirely from memory , having only a few documents available to him and those mostly from his later years . |
| 28 | He first decided to go into manufacturing because when he finished his design training in the early 1980s there were few jobs available simply because in those days industry , by and large , saw no call for designers . |
| 29 | As they become unemployed , they find that there are few jobs available in their local area and no jobs at all which require their specialised skills . |
| 30 | But it is also because people in the Third World have realized that there are very few jobs available in which their children can use an education . |