Example sentences of "with [adv] few [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Some managers who carry a smaller team of paid workers with only few volunteers have indeed shown support for the new breed of ‘ unemployed ’ worker , in order to broaden the CAB volunteer base .
2 However , the talents of her mind amply compensated for the defects of her person ; and if , with so few advantages , she was capable of writing with so much credit to herself , there can be no doubt but , if her career had been prolonged , she would have greatly distinguished herself in the annals of female literature [
3 It was good to be in a class with so few girls ; there were just three of us among fourteen boys , and as a result we all became good friends without forming any sentimental attachments .
4 ‘ At the moment though , with so few experts in this field , underwater sites will come forward for consideration far less often than land sites .
5 Welsh coach Clive Griffiths said : ‘ With so few players to choose from , we are always on a knife edge .
6 With so few studies of the impact of severe floods on river life , knowing how typical the response of the Araglin is could be anybody 's guess .
7 Theirs had been a terminally ill situation with so few worshippers in so large and expensive a building .
8 But the problem still exists and Sylvia 's carer , Barbara Waddington says she believes with so few trains apparently unable to fit the wheelchair on to the train , British Rail ought to ensure that Sylvia can travel in more comfort .
9 In its zeal to relieve China 's embarrassment at hosting a party with so few guests , East Berlin sent two senior officials — Egon Krenz , a member of the Politburo , and Wolfgang Rachfuss , a member of the Central Committee .
10 ‘ We are in business to make a profit and we can not do that with so few passengers . ’
11 He turned back to the frying-pan , and she wondered how anyone could make her hackles rise with so few words .
12 But on the other hand , if they are supposed to be representatives of our society , then there 's obviously something wrong , when there are so few women , compared with so few men .
13 The bookshop was often watched by the British Authorities because of its known association with Irish sympathizers , but in this weather , with so few people about , any observer would be sure to stand out .
14 ‘ The tanning process is a complicated business and it will not be possible with so few people . ’
15 At that stage in his career no one was looking for a hit-machine : the longer heads realised that it was a difficult job to scale the face of Broadway — as it was in the West End — with so few footholds and even fewer helping ropes dangling down to give you a lift .
16 They are capable of packing an immense amount of precise , digital information into a very small space ; and they are capable of preserving this information — with astonishingly few errors , but still some errors — for a very long time , measured in millions of years .
17 Its members will be drawn mainly from the Commons ( the lower elected house ) , a few will be from the same party in the Lords ( the non-elected upper house ) and , although they remain in Parliament as MPs or peers , their role is very much as members of the executive , aiming to steer their programme through the assembly with as few complications or delays as possible .
18 ‘ It is very much in Courtaulds ’ interests to have a wider European Common Market with as few barriers as possible , ’ he said .
19 He considers taking an early flight because it is the quickest , doubts whether it will give him time to prepare and settles for the quickest later flight ; he wants to be bothered with as few suitcases as possible , starts packing the biggest he has , finds the lock broken and chooses another .
20 The initial concept of the T.4 was for a ‘ dual-control trainer with as few changes as possible ’ .
21 However , these problems of task allocation were all minor when compared with the driving force behind the system : getting the tasks completed as quickly and with as few staff as possible .
22 All Léonie managed to discover from the postman 's hints was that the priest had had the bones taken away for a quick burial in the cemetery with as few people present as possible , and that people were still visiting the site of the apparitions , waiting to see whether Thérèse would go back .
23 I want to do this thing as well as it can be done , and with as few deaths as we can manage .
24 The rates at which it has dealt , therefore , become quickly known in a market with comparatively few practitioners who are in continuous contact with each other .
25 After an extremely mixed summer weather wise , the spell of good weather at the tail end was almost ignored in Snowdonia , with surprisingly few teams on the major crags despite the dry conditions .
26 Nevertheless , the Japanese , with relatively few elements of their three-million strong army , achieved more rapid success than they had expected : by 11 January 1942 they had occupied the Celebes ; on 4 February the Allies on Amboina surrendered ; on 15 February Singapore fell , and on 19–20 February Timor was invaded , the main force of its defenders surrendering a few days later .
27 Thank you very much well it 's always a pleasure to hear of about the Seamanship Foundation and I 'm sure that , as you might be saying , and er the need for the foundation 's fundraising will be rather heightened this year as a result of last year 's drop but I 'm equally sure that you will get a tremendous amount of support from the members and on that note which I think is er also is an important method of concentrating our priorities and on the basis of we 're extremely lucky to be able to pursue a really very enjoyable pastime with relatively few problems and that if we can get those opportunities to many more , who would otherwise not be able to enjoy and in fact frequently do n't get to enjoy any other pastime , we should endeavour to do so and consider ourselves lucky that we can .
28 Archaeology therefore has the ability to impose , with relatively few complications , the particular contemporary boundaries of the nation-state upon its findings , and to identify these as the prehistory of Germany or Italy .
29 The range of Fairy Basslets is considerable , each species delightful in its own particular way , but with relatively few species readily identifiable from hobbyist books .
30 The majority of the company 's employees worked at this home plant , with relatively few workers located at other plants .
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