Example sentences of "in [noun sg] few [noun] " in BNC.

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1 In addition few people believed that FDP officers could easily relinquish their former role .
2 This was an important step towards a national health service , though in practice few authorities did much to modernize their facilities .
3 In practice few UPS bands are quite so starkly simple ; we usually see the vestiges of a progression .
4 This is a difficult question but in practice few spreadsheets need more than 1 or 2 MBytes of expanded memory .
5 In practice few companies have made use of the opportunity provided by the Act to start generating electricity on a substantial scale .
6 In practice few debtors went out , but the settlers were helped liberally with private and public funds administered by the charitable trust created to run the colony .
7 The shore remains frozen until the summer thaw ; during summer the beaches and rocky shores alike are scoured by floating ice ; in consequence few plants or animals inhabit the intertidal or upper littoral zones .
8 In fact few homeworkers enjoy employee status .
9 In fact few library authorities make a serious attempt at tackling problems of stock logistics , so that this factor is rarely quantified , except in a very general sense .
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