Example sentences of "few [adj] [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are very few professional aircraft accident investigating officials who do not appreciate the broad scope of the coroner 's ( or procurator fiscal 's or magistrate 's ) responsibilities but it is remarkable how many coroners have very little idea of what the technical aircraft accident investigator is trying to do ; and it is even more surprising that many do not bother to try to find out , even when an aircraft accident occurs in their area of jurisdiction . |
| 2 | Though widely remembered and warmly received , the candidate had few political goal scoring opportunities . |
| 3 | However , our research indicates that this is not happening , primarily because there has been a failure in most parts of the world to recognize or accept the critical role played by paraprofessionals in social service delivery , little effort has been devoted to the clarification of appropriate paraprofessional roles and functions and to their training and deployment , and too few social work education programmes are training social workers to work alongside paraprofessional personnel . |
| 4 | There were , for example , very few old Sitka spruce in the Commission 's forests because the rotation of the plantation was only some 35–55 years . |
| 5 | She had no idea what that ‘ conduct ’ had been — a few early morning phone calls had produced more bad language than information — but she knew what ‘ to consider ’ meant in Whitehall , and frankly Harry had had it coming . |
| 6 | There are a few prominent poll tax Welsh Members sitting on the Government Benches today . |
| 7 | There 's a few little flaps mummy |
| 8 | For a few brief moments Carnelian 's face might have been that of a Polymorphine shape-shifter viewed at fast-forward speed passing through absurdly accelerated transformations . |
| 9 | Yes just er just a few brief words chairman . |
| 10 | Now he could see only a few shadowy figures half-glimpsed through the mists of the cooking fumes . |
| 11 | ‘ Dear Batty , I needed money for booze so all I did was rip off a few thousand cup final tickets supposed to be for our lot and flog 'em to some scum supporters . |
| 12 | A few Grey Plover summer regularly in both Chichester and Pagham Harbours . |
| 13 | India has very few fourth generation mainframe computers which have been available in the West for a number of years . |
| 14 | A few more work experience spells on NME should stand you in jolly good stead for the future . |
| 15 | Alternatively , it may be a prerequisite for the evolutionary development of intelligence — which leads us to the premonition that , in a few billion years time , there may be intelligent lugworms stalking the Earth . |
| 16 | In a protein with a fairly high helix content , there were relatively few nuclear Overhauser effect constraints , and the C α r.m.s. deviation between various NMR solutions was 4.3 ( ref. 14 ) . |
| 17 | Porto Alegre was identified because it has two of the very few general practice training programmes in the country . |
| 18 | Status . — A few non-breeding birds summer ; winter visitor and passage migrant . |
| 19 | This had been talked about by a few experienced bomber squadron commanders , notably Wg Cdrs " Willie " Tait , Charles Whitworth , Syd Bufton and , of course , " Jimmy " Marks who , as bomber pilots . |
| 20 | As well as the teds there were always a few young art school types who were interested in the idea of teddy boy style . |
| 21 | Or tell them , tell them there 's a few million pounds worth of gold coins in some field ! |
| 22 | Throughout the lunar core samples , which extend well below a few millimetres , the exposure ages of the grains are similar at all depths and correspond to a few million years exposure to the cosmic-ray intensity in the present Solar System . |
| 23 | By contrast , where there were few other communities exit was less easy and there was more heterogeneity . |
| 24 | Hazard research , like few other GIS application areas , is not only stretching the present technology to its limits but is a quite remarkable focus of international effort into several important research-related areas such as expert systems and simulation studies . |
| 25 | After receiving the evidence , the insurance company offered Susan a few hundred pounds compensation . |
| 26 | My mother and I were evacuees in Cumberland , a few hundred miles north . |
| 27 | From the A4067 , a few hundred yards north of the Dan yr Ogof show caves , you make your way , initially quite steeply , to a clear path on the rim of Fan Hir . |
| 28 | ‘ The Gaiety is a few hundred yards west and when I was 10 and I met Brendan Behan there , he suggested I become a writer . |
| 29 | The Tournament arena was laid out on a flat piece of land in a loop of the Lugton Water , a few hundred yards east of the castle . |
| 30 | As far as the performance went … well , individually Macca played really well with a few lovely cross field balls . |