Example sentences of "to [adv] few [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This would restrict you to rather few banks these days . |
| 2 | Most food imports went to comparatively few countries . |
| 3 | This function should be severely restricted to as few persons as possible . |
| 4 | Take it down to the bone , to as few words as possible . |
| 5 | The addenda should be kept to as few items as are necessary for the proper presentation of the work . |
| 6 | Part of the idea may have been a selfish desire to limit citizenship to as few people as possible , now that it brought greater material advantages . |
| 7 | In practice , the absence of a precise definition has given rise to surprisingly few problems and to even fewer reported cases . |
| 8 | By comparison , due to relatively few papers in major Australian cities , there is more time on assignments for less photographers . |
| 9 | Stories about being better off out of work apply only to relatively few people , those with large families and particularly exploitative employers . |
| 10 | If the Port is indeed the landscape listed in the catalogue , it is the first surviving Cubist painting to have been seen in a large public exhibition ( the Braque exhibition in the previous year had been at Kahnweiler 's gallery which was small and at that time known to relatively few people ) . |
| 11 | ‘ We altered our tactics to keep two men wide and one up the middle , and with Mel Pejic behind the back four we restricted them to very few chances . |
| 12 | I mention this because it brought me into favoured touch with the Commanding Officer for Wales , and through him I was able to gain admittance for Richard to Exeter College , Oxford , for six months prior to his joining the Royal Air Force , a privilege granted to very few cadets . |
| 13 | The evidence to substantiate this is limited to very few conditions . |
| 14 | But this was a term that I think was only applied to very few parents , on the whole , it really , it was not a sort of ‘ Parents are a nuisance ’ is not a general belief of , of teachers at all , not today . |
| 15 | Velázquez 's name , for example , would have been familiar to very few Mexicans in the seventeenth century , but as the only artist authorised to execute likenesses of the King his official portraits of Philip IV and the innumerable engravings after them would have been well known . |
| 16 | I remember years ago being amused when a young man given to very few words came to our vicarage and burst in with the news : ‘ Jane had a baby boy this morning ! ’ still with his bedroom slippers on . |
| 17 | In the example of Figure 15–5 a tax on meals leads to too few meals being produced . |
| 18 | Free market equilibrium leads to too few improvements . |