Example sentences of "few [prep] [noun] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Drive in the spade again , about 2–3 inches ( 5- 8cm ) from the cuttings slit , and lever the soil over tight against the cuttings — check this by taking a few between thumb and finger , and try to lift them : they should be quite firm . |
| 2 | In total , Jay has 21 tanks , including a fair few for breeding and raising his fish . |
| 3 | Few in Germany and elsewhere have any great conviction about the verdict . |
| 4 | Few in industry or the institutions believe that the way the financial institutions operate has deprived firms of funds they should have had , or has constrained investment . |
| 5 | Those who advocated the scrapping of the fund — along the lines of the circular letter from Messrs Whitfield Hallam Goodall — were relatively few in number but included at least one local law society . |
| 6 | High living standards had encouraged migration to these republics from other parts of the USSR , and this became one of the issues most central to the development of a powerful and widely supported nationalist movement in the late 1980s , particularly since the Baltic nations were relatively few in number and tended to have low birth and high divorce rates ( in Latvia , where golden and silver wedding anniversaries had formerly been celebrated , there were ceremonies in the 1980s for couples that had been together for just a few years ) . |
| 7 | If the tasks of a work group are simple , few in number and repetitive , the best style of leadership will be different from a situation in which tasks are varied and difficult . |
| 8 | These various assumptions were to become increasingly incompatible and awkward to reconcile — but they were deeply held in government circles and resistant to challenge from academics , who were few in number and had to rely on patchy ‘ open sources ’ for evidence of change . |
| 9 | The Danuese allowed to participate were few in number and rigorously selected , mostly the same ‘ chiefs ’ who had voted for assimilation into the malai republic in the show referendum of a few weeks back . |
| 10 | Stem cells , which are few in number and intermediate transit cells , which have limited proliferative capacity , occupy the lower two thirds of each crypt . |
| 11 | TNF α+; cells were present in the lamina propria of six of the 11 normal controls , but these were few in number and largely confined to the subepithelial zone ( median density 5.5 cells/ mm , 95% confidence intervals 1.6 to 20.9 ) . |
| 12 | In 1914 they were still few in number and often had impractically large geographical areas to deal with . |
| 13 | Even the female mourners , who followed the bier , were few in number and boringly subdued . |
| 14 | Equity providers will back management teams because of the strength of character and entrepreneurial skills of their members , who , as a general rule , will : ( a ) have a high degree of commitment to the new business ; ( b ) have strong entrepreneurial instincts ; ( c ) have confidence in their ability to take control of the business and run it without the assistance of inter-group services ; ( d ) be able to take personal risks without adverse effect on their decision making ; ( e ) have the strength of character to cope with the frustrations and successes of the negotiation process ; ( f ) be few in number and therefore able to make decisions quickly ; ( g ) have strong family support . |
| 15 | McGrath 's best work came from body punches , but they were few in number and he was heavily out-scored by Oakes , whose work was far more varied . |
| 16 | We have quite a few in stock and would like to clear a few at least ! |
| 17 | Jerseys were first imported in 1893 , direct from the Channel Islands , and subsequently from Denmark , with a few from Britain and the USA . |
| 18 | He lived for his profession , so much so that , instead of limiting himself to examining the remains of bomb-blast victims , he attended the courses and lectures available only to a very few on bomb-making and disarming offered at Fort Halstead . |
| 19 | ‘ Most are used as free-standing units at the fill point , but we do have a few on bowsers and sprayers . |
| 20 | ‘ There must have been quite a few since Lucia and Michele . ’ |
| 21 | Graduate lecture courses are few at present but may be expected to grow in number in the near future . |