Example sentences of "with [adv] few [noun] and " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | There were too many organizational structures with too few members and even less real action . |
| 4 | Power has been concentrated in the Cabinet and in the hands of the Prime Minister , with very few checks and balances . |
| 5 | Conversely , some people are introverted , and seek out relationships with very few people and then only on their own terms . |