Example sentences of "of [adv] few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The very young Aplysia has a nervous system consisting of relatively few neurons , while the period of onset of the capacity to show sensitization as a behavioural phenomenon matches that of a great increase in neuronal number ; yet if all that sensitization required was the facilitatory response in a set of three neurons of the network described earlier , it is hard to see why , by contrast with habituation , it should be dependent on such an increase in neuronal number . |
| 2 | The effect of relatively few firearms had been devastating against a warrior race with no previous experience of them . |
| 3 | As in all participatory schemes , there is a risk of middle class bias in parental representation on governing bodies , with the evidence pointing to the active involvement of relatively few parents . |
| 4 | Even among the Europeans mass intercontinental migration was confined to the people of relatively few countries , in this period overwhelmingly to the British , the Irish and the Germans , and , from the 1860s on , the Norwegians and Swedes — the Danes never emigrated to the same extent — whose small numbers conceal the enormous relative size of their demographic drain . |
| 5 | In the past , companies put ‘ great responsibility in the hands of very few managers who became ‘ all-rounders ’ covering large areas both in terms of product and geography' . |
| 6 | The sensitivity of Bio-Rad GAP Test IgG described in our study is almost identical to that found by another groups , but the lower specificity could be explained by one or more of the following : their reliance on histology as a standard , which might be difficult to interpret in the presence of very few organisms ; the exclusion from their study of patients with chronic superficial or atrophic gastritis in whom H pylori was not identified , thus reducing the number of true negatives ; the relatively high number of cases of chemical gastritis in their H pylori negative group without specifying whether these patients had been treated with NSAID ; and the presence in their H pylori positive group of chronic atrophic gastritis in 117 of 160 ( 73% ) , which may have been paralleled by a rise in the number of false positive cases . |
| 7 | One thousand babies later , in April 1919 , Edith Pye departed , one of very few women to have been made a chévalier of the Legion of Honour . |
| 8 | With the exception of very few families who had the protection of the British consulate , the Jews were defenceless . |
| 9 | I can conceive of very few matrons who would entrust their menfolk to such temptation . ’ |
| 10 | I can think of very few occasions when you would not have the time to state your case . |
| 11 | Although he died in 1940 at the age of 35 , he had in the space of very few years produced a quite prodigious range of political and literary texts . |
| 12 | ‘ Yes , ’ said April , making it increasingly apparent that she was a girl of very few words . |
| 13 | One club that has shut down permanently is The Brain in London , a victim of too few clubbers with too little money after one good summer too many . |
| 14 | The crucial assumption underlying this analysis , in contrast to those which have focused on the rate of growth of labour supply and the idea of too few producers , is that the achievement of higher productivity is a prior condition for and not a consequence of a higher rate of growth of the manufacturing labour force [ cf. |