Example sentences of "and [vb past] few [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Throughout the colonial period they made little use of the judicial system set up by the British and made few requests of their administrators . |
| 2 | I walked around the bedroom which , unlike mine , was neat and showed few signs of its occupant : a small pile of books , with Psychological Correspondences on top ; a pair of flesh-coloured tights drying on a radiator ; some cosmetics . |
| 3 | It became even more individualistic and displayed few signs of the closely knit and hierarchically organized structure of the previous era . |
| 4 | WPC Dick 's salutary essay ( 1985 ) changed little and generated few ripples on the ACPO pond , while one of the most powerfully critical books on policing in recent years ( Jones 1980 ) seems to have had little effect on the structures of the organization , except , perhaps , to help draw its author — then a chief inspector — into the ACPO ranks . |
| 5 | It contained no clues to Henry 's professional interests and gave few hints about his private tastes . |
| 6 | Although he had passed Responsions and had few debts at Oxford except for books , his father was already apprehensive about the cost of an Oxford education , with Ernest in his final year of training to be an art-teacher and Reggie with a consuming passion for Shakespeare and the stage , and no other interest . |