Example sentences of "of few [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The revenues from North sea oil and privatisations helped this Government to restore public finances to the kind of good shape that those of few other countries are in . |
| 2 | Wilson was almost on his own , confidently predicting the success of a strike in which the leaders of few other unions believed . |
| 3 | Derek 's are mainly , there 's a sort of few new ones but |
| 4 | In a game of few scoring opportunities , Coventry lacked the power and precision revealed by Campbell in the 29th minute after he ran on to Limpar 's lobbed pass . |
| 5 | But in a game of few clear openings , Gunn coped well and the absence of the Sudbury 'keeper , who took two heavy knocks in the opening exchanges , made little material difference to the pattern of the game . |
| 6 | The hosts , and what a superbly organised lot they were , with the help of few French travellers , gave a good account of themselves , notably against the tiring Irish . |
| 7 | His picture of the democratic tyranny of Athenion , the Aristotelian who led the anti-Roman movement in Athens in 87 , is the most hostile image of a popular leader in Greek literature — and I know of few comparable portraits in other literatures ( fr. 36 Jacoby ) . |
| 8 | The severity of oesophagitis was classified into five categories according to Savary 's criteria : ( a ) Grade 0 : absence of oesophageal injury ; ( b ) Grade I : presence of few isolated erosions ; ( c ) Grade II : presence of multiple longitudinal or confluent erosions ; ( d ) Grade III : presence of Barrett 's oesophagus or columnar lined distal oesophagus , diagnosed by endoscopy when the squamous columnar mucosal function was seen 3 cm or more proximal to the endoscopic location of the lower oesophageal sphincter . |