Example sentences of "but [prep] few [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Lesbianism and Socialism workshop raised many issues , but with few answers . |
| 2 | Cathedrals and churches tend to be large , with lofty nave , choir and transepts , but with few projections such as porches , portals or buttresses . |
| 3 | By the middle and late 1870s this situation had been substantially modified , but with few exceptions the rural population still largely prevailed over the urban . |
| 4 | Not only the peerage but many of the more prosperous country squires in the eighteenth century came to maintain houses in their local market towns , to serve both the needs of trade and of society ; as Joseph Seagrave remarked in 1804 , ‘ the domestic building in every part of the kingdom , is greatly improved within the last forty or fifty years ; but in few places more than Chichester ’ . |
| 5 | But on few matters , it must be added , is even the most sophisticated economic and social comment more reticent . |