Example sentences of "have [vb pp] few [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The majority of work on structural semantics has remained philosophical or at best highly theoretical , and has inspired few computational implementations . |
| 2 | Forget the shambling , apologetic gait , forget the quizzical expression : the game has known few shrewder competitors than the Gnome . |
| 3 | Objects frequently provide a link with very ordinary people in the past , the sort of people who may have left few other records of themselves ( see Box 7 ) . |
| 4 | Until the rebels reached Monrovia the fighting had involved few direct clashes between the government troops and the rebels and had largely consisted of tribally motivated reprisal attacks against civilians . |
| 5 | Other speakers seemed to be relatively exposed to standardizing mainstream influences , in that they had contracted few personal ties which were likely to exert normative pressure on their behaviour ; but in any case the geographical spread of the ties contracted by most Braniel speakers made them difficult to investigate . |
| 6 | Many of the BMA leaders have said that hospital is being set against hospital and doctor against doctor in the competitive process , yet they have produced few concrete examples , and a growing number of GPs are applying to become fundholders . |
| 7 | No wonder that comparisons between questionnaires on attitudes and direct observations of behaviour have produced few significant results : in one study , for example , there were fewer correlations between the two than one would expect by chance ! |
| 8 | Not surprisingly the temporary structures erected in these areas have left few archaeological traces . |