Example sentences of "relatively few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Published in an edition of 5,000 , this is clearly aimed at a precise , limited audience of mainly dealers ( for whom the catalogue raisonné will prove invaluable ) , museums and relatively few collectors and scholars . |
| 2 | The Moi University course offers problem-based learning , relatively few lectures , early patient contact , and a strong bias towards experience in the community ( 8 weeks of every year are set aside for this ) . |
| 3 | I begin here , therefore , with a discussion of the relatively few reports of attempts to replicate and extend his findings . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Relatively few students reach secondary school , with a substantial proportion of these being in the Khartoum and Northern regions . |
| 7 | Large numbers of workers and citizens involved in the disturbances have been arrested , but relatively few students and intellectuals . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Although relatively few eggs are produced , the male 's care ensures a good survival rate . |
| 10 | This is partly because relatively few businesses use Commodore computers . |
| 11 | From Wagner 's results we would conclude , however , that building competitive position or market share is really successfully achieved by relatively few businesses . |
| 12 | Relatively few studies begin with an explicit ( ex-ante ) theory which is then rigorously tested against the data . |
| 13 | There have been relatively few studies of modern cultural institutions outside the dominant fields of press and broadcasting , but on cinema see Mayer ( 1948 ) and on more recent approaches see Albrecht , Barnett and Griff ( 1970 ) . |
| 14 | The London County Council , for long a stronghold of the Labour party , was one of the relatively few authorities to press firmly in this direction in the immediate post-war years . |
| 15 | This measure effectively makes competitive tendering compulsory for designated services , replacing the former ( largely discretionary ) powers which had been used by relatively few authorities in specific areas ( Ascher , 1987 , especially ch. 7 ; Stoker , 1988 ) . |
| 16 | These were in no way representative of the national picture , since relatively few authorities had adopted care programming at the outset of our enquiry . |
| 17 | Nevertheless , the Japanese , with relatively few elements of their three-million strong army , achieved more rapid success than they had expected : by 11 January 1942 they had occupied the Celebes ; on 4 February the Allies on Amboina surrendered ; on 15 February Singapore fell , and on 19–20 February Timor was invaded , the main force of its defenders surrendering a few days later . |
| 18 | The culturally conservative world of commerce and industry was hardly more attractive , and relatively few noblemen combined the capital , the ability , and the inclination to find satisfaction in serf-based farming . |
| 19 | In the previous section we argued that the cereal-packet image of family life in modern Britain was seriously misleading in that , at any one time , relatively few families conform to the image and many households never do . |
| 20 | Before the 1850s this had been a problem of a relatively few families ; in some countries , such as Germany , of hardly any . |
| 21 | The number of laws on the statute book increases cumulatively since governments repeal relatively few laws . |
| 22 | Archaeology therefore has the ability to impose , with relatively few complications , the particular contemporary boundaries of the nation-state upon its findings , and to identify these as the prehistory of Germany or Italy . |
| 23 | As in all participatory schemes , there is a risk of middle class bias in parental representation on governing bodies , with the evidence pointing to the active involvement of relatively few parents . |
| 24 | The use of externally run courses can prove to be very cost-effective if an employer sends relatively few expatriates abroad . |
| 25 | But the mountain goat is big enough to have relatively few predators . |
| 26 | Categories 1 and 3 present relatively few difficulties . |
| 27 | This will be followed by a consideration of the relatively few attempts systematically to distinguish the social properties of the object from those of language as expressive medium . |
| 28 | The accounting system has relatively few users — about five in London , 10 in New York and two in Hong Kong . |
| 29 | Surprisingly , relatively few women saw sheepdog work as a useful contribution they could make to the farm . |
| 30 | In the industrial sector , for example , in textiles , there are still relatively few women on the shop-floor . |