Example sentences of "with [adv] few [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At that stage in his career no one was looking for a hit-machine : the longer heads realised that it was a difficult job to scale the face of Broadway — as it was in the West End — with so few footholds and even fewer helping ropes dangling down to give you a lift . |
| 2 | Its members will be drawn mainly from the Commons ( the lower elected house ) , a few will be from the same party in the Lords ( the non-elected upper house ) and , although they remain in Parliament as MPs or peers , their role is very much as members of the executive , aiming to steer their programme through the assembly with as few complications or delays as possible . |
| 3 | ‘ It is very much in Courtaulds ’ interests to have a wider European Common Market with as few barriers as possible , ’ he said . |
| 4 | He considers taking an early flight because it is the quickest , doubts whether it will give him time to prepare and settles for the quickest later flight ; he wants to be bothered with as few suitcases as possible , starts packing the biggest he has , finds the lock broken and chooses another . |
| 5 | The initial concept of the T.4 was for a ‘ dual-control trainer with as few changes as possible ’ . |
| 6 | However , these problems of task allocation were all minor when compared with the driving force behind the system : getting the tasks completed as quickly and with as few staff as possible . |
| 7 | I want to do this thing as well as it can be done , and with as few deaths as we can manage . |
| 8 | Thank you very much well it 's always a pleasure to hear of about the Seamanship Foundation and I 'm sure that , as you might be saying , and er the need for the foundation 's fundraising will be rather heightened this year as a result of last year 's drop but I 'm equally sure that you will get a tremendous amount of support from the members and on that note which I think is er also is an important method of concentrating our priorities and on the basis of we 're extremely lucky to be able to pursue a really very enjoyable pastime with relatively few problems and that if we can get those opportunities to many more , who would otherwise not be able to enjoy and in fact frequently do n't get to enjoy any other pastime , we should endeavour to do so and consider ourselves lucky that we can . |
| 9 | There were too many organizational structures with too few members and even less real action . |
| 10 | But they had sympathy for doctors in Sarajevo who 've been doing their best to preserve life with very few medicines or facilities . |
| 11 | Power has been concentrated in the Cabinet and in the hands of the Prime Minister , with very few checks and balances . |
| 12 | Conversely , some people are introverted , and seek out relationships with very few people and then only on their own terms . |