Example sentences of "with as few [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ It is very much in Courtaulds ’ interests to have a wider European Common Market with as few barriers as possible , ’ he said . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The initial concept of the T.4 was for a ‘ dual-control trainer with as few changes as possible ’ . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | I want to do this thing as well as it can be done , and with as few deaths as we can manage . |