Example sentences of "be [vb pp] [prep] few [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Famed for its gentle , artistic people and elaborately performed ceremonies , the Island of the Gods , Lombok is a mere fifteen minute flight from Bali , but unlike her close sister , this island has been exposed to few tourists . |
| 2 | Van in those days was remote from Constantinople and had been visited by few Europeans . |
| 3 | The street of the storytellers in Peshawar , Pakistan ; a desert island in the Indian Ocean , the magnificent Iguazu Falls in Argentina , the Potala in Tibet and the gigantic statues of Easter Island had , until recently , been seen by few people other than the local population , explorers , archaeologists or anthropologists , yet they are all included in the pages of current travel brochures . |
| 4 | He said that the message that " environment means business " had only been understood by few companies , and that small and medium-sized ones in particular had been slow to recognize the opportunities . |
| 5 | Perhaps monotony , fragmentation and excessive pace are noted by few housewives and are not bound up with a dominant feeling of dissatisfaction . |
| 6 | Handbells , although very common in the United States , are to be found in few churches in this country , except where they are used by bellringers in connection with change-ringing . |
| 7 | Those early days , when he shared a hovel with Linder and Ian Devine , were spent with few friends and ‘ How Soon Is Now ’ , an indication that his personal situation had n't improved with success , was hardly the typical Top Of The Pops sentiment of the day . |
| 8 | The earthquake differed from most intraplate earthquakes of this size , however , in being followed by few after-shocks , in contrast to the magnitude 5.4 earthquake on the Lleyn Peninsula in 1984 . |
| 9 | In ‘ the old days ’ field officers ( at least in the southern authority ) enjoyed a high degree of personal contact with their superiors and were subjected to few demands from headquarters : |
| 10 | They are constructed with few weaknesses and have a sound , strong constitution . |
| 11 | He was the first gold medal winner ( 1902 ) of the Institution of Mining and Metallurgy , his obituary in Nature noting : ‘ It is given to few men to discover a process which has had such a far-reaching effect in almost every branch of civilised life . ’ |
| 12 | This is a period about which little is known for few records survive of those days . |
| 13 | In ( 60 ) , a negative idea is expressed by few meaning " not many " . |
| 14 | The study revealed that growth of Asian businesses was confined to few areas and , although this had been rapid during the 1970s , it had been declining recently . |
| 15 | When he died , after their long absences abroad , she was left with few friends in England . |