Example sentences of "it [vb past] few [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The third need is to remember that while the 1988 Act changed many aspects of management from the point of view of the insider , it changed few things from the point of view of the parents , the employer or the public . |
| 2 | Enthoven pointed out that whereas the NHS efficiently contained costs at the macro-level it provided few incentives to consistently reward efficiency and high performance at the micro-level , and indeed penalised both . |
| 3 | Poor Mervyn , she knew that she ought to feel sorry for him , living with his disagreeable old mother — at least , this was how she appeared in Ianthe 's imagination — disappointed at not having got a job in one of the University libraries , unable to find staff accurate enough to appreciate the niceties of setting out a bibliographical entry correctly , with it seemed few friends of either sex , unable to eat restaurant food — really , the list seemed endless when one thought about it . |
| 4 | So we have a story that may or may not be a story ( it had already appeared in The People back in January , when it raised few eyebrows ) , and a news reporter who suddenly finds himself giving press conferences rather than attending them . |
| 5 | The party addressed much of its effort to workers and it enrolled few peasant members , yet the peasant question was central to its programme and during the revolution of 1905 it exerted considerable influence in the All-Russian Peasants ' Union . |
| 6 | The usefulness of the Grand Plan , even if it had few subscribers , was that it provided a cover . |
| 7 | It had few ornaments : a vase or two , an ashtray and a couple of ceramic figures . |