Example sentences of "have [vb pp] few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the years since 1945 , Japan , unlike many other industrial nations , has received few immigrants whose presence might modify this sense of ‘ being Japanese ’ . |
| 2 | The government has given few details of its hoarding scheme . |
| 3 | Another problem is that the administration has given few details on the cash that it will put up to induce mining companies to begin new ventures . |
| 4 | The instrumental guitar album boom of recent years has seen few players survive with their credibility intact . |
| 5 | This infill bears few craters , and only a few craters have been partially obscured , indicating that the whole Caloris basin since its creation has suffered few impacts and is therefore comparatively recent . |
| 6 | Despite extensive newspaper and TV coverage , Arkie has uncovered few clues as to the whereabouts of the black , tan and white dog she rescued from an RSPCA pound three years ago . |
| 7 | The country has made few preparations for civil defence . |
| 8 | He has made few speeches and passed no Bills . |
| 9 | While the deal with Caterpillar has yet to be finalised , the Austrian venture has produced few orders . |
| 10 | Not surprisingly Chopin 's First Sonata has had few champions , so all credit to Leif Ove Andsnes , who , at a mere 22 years old , is already a formidable pianist . |
| 11 | A laissez-faire approach of non-intervention has had few adherents in the past , since most economists have accepted that theory and evidence do suggest that matters can not be left entirely to the market . |
| 12 | This has been because social psychology has had few ways of handling the macro-level political , economic and social change which has been of such great interest to sociologists . |
| 13 | It has conferred few benefits . |
| 14 | Dyson-Hudson ( 1984 ) has also commented that since c. 1970 the equivalent of $US600 million has been given as development funds to Africa 's rangelands but has brought few rewards as far as more efficient and productive pastoralism is concerned . |
| 15 | Marjorie Bilbow , in Cinema TV Today , described the production as ‘ very plodding and unimaginative ’ , and Clyde Jeavons wrote in the British Film Institute 's Monthly Film Bulletin , ‘ Apart from accommodating a number of half-hearted and totally unmemorable songs and dance routines , William Sterling has taken few liberties with the original narrative , but at the same time he has divested it of both its charm and its potential for cinematic comic invention . |
| 16 | MICROSOFT 'S EXCEL HAS FACED FEW CHALLENGERS IN THE WINDOWS SPREADSHEET MARKET . |
| 17 | The strikers returned to work having won few concessions . |
| 18 | Perhaps nomadic by choice , a typical shepherd would have had few possessions , would not own the flock , the pastures or a house . |
| 19 | Contrary to the popular myth , Galileo seems to have performed few experiments in mechanics . |
| 20 | They were used to rubbing shoulders with Tatars in regions west of the Urals , and seem to have had few trances of the sense of racial superiority which other European colonists took with them . |
| 21 | Viscount Eversley , who as Charles Shaw-Lefevre had just retired as Speaker , like the Duke of Buccleuch , appears to have had few qualifications to enable him to assess the competition and in the end , like the Duke , was not involved in the final outcome . |
| 22 | Certainly for the king who died , and for the politicians who survived , the last two years of the reign had given few grounds for pleasure , in sharp contrast to the enormous activity and success of the previous decade . |
| 23 | Within moments of climbing on board , Kelly could see why Billy Liar had won few friends at the yard . |
| 24 | But the latest news was discouraging — they had met few supporters on the road down Keltney , a handful from the far side of Tummel , not a soul from Rannoch . |
| 25 | The Soviet Union had made few preparations for occupation of north Korea in August 1945 . |
| 26 | I 've got few resources , I just ca n't afford to buy the books that 's the |
| 27 | His isolated Ottery childhood had provided few opportunities for exploring the possibilities of friendship . |
| 28 | Unemployment was higher in Torbay than nationally and the DHA had provided few opportunities for work , most of its effort going into the operation of a light industrial unit at Newton Abbot . |
| 29 | But he had not gone into details , giving only the bare outline , the facts , and Lili had asked few questions . |
| 30 | Talks between Bangladesh and Myanma during January and February had yielded few results and so in March the Bangladesh government launched a diplomatic offensive in an attempt at spurring the international community into preventing a major tragedy occurring . |