Example sentences of "been [vb pp] [prep] [adv] few " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the narrow out-crops on either side of Scotland have been honoured by comparatively few publications , though their story is much more exciting . |
| 2 | Those fighter pilots were praised by Churchill , when he made his famous announcement that ‘ Never in the history of human conflict had so much been owed to so few by so many ’ . |
| 3 | This measure effectively makes competitive tendering compulsory for designated services , replacing the former ( largely discretionary ) powers which had been used by relatively few authorities in specific areas ( Ascher , 1987 , especially ch. 7 ; Stoker , 1988 ) . |
| 4 | This is in contrast with the usual representation of a physical map , where clones are summarised as intervals which have been packed into as few lines as possible ( Fig 1 ) . |
| 5 | The annual totals are published with the permission of Islay Estates Ltd. where a remarkably long run of weather statistics has been kept with very few gaps . |