Example sentences of "with [adv] few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some managers who carry a smaller team of paid workers with only few volunteers have indeed shown support for the new breed of ‘ unemployed ’ worker , in order to broaden the CAB volunteer base . |
| 2 | However , the talents of her mind amply compensated for the defects of her person ; and if , with so few advantages , she was capable of writing with so much credit to herself , there can be no doubt but , if her career had been prolonged , she would have greatly distinguished herself in the annals of female literature [ |
| 3 | It was good to be in a class with so few girls ; there were just three of us among fourteen boys , and as a result we all became good friends without forming any sentimental attachments . |
| 4 | ‘ At the moment though , with so few experts in this field , underwater sites will come forward for consideration far less often than land sites . |
| 5 | Welsh coach Clive Griffiths said : ‘ With so few players to choose from , we are always on a knife edge . |
| 6 | With so few studies of the impact of severe floods on river life , knowing how typical the response of the Araglin is could be anybody 's guess . |
| 7 | Theirs had been a terminally ill situation with so few worshippers in so large and expensive a building . |
| 8 | But the problem still exists and Sylvia 's carer , Barbara Waddington says she believes with so few trains apparently unable to fit the wheelchair on to the train , British Rail ought to ensure that Sylvia can travel in more comfort . |
| 9 | In its zeal to relieve China 's embarrassment at hosting a party with so few guests , East Berlin sent two senior officials — Egon Krenz , a member of the Politburo , and Wolfgang Rachfuss , a member of the Central Committee . |
| 10 | ‘ We are in business to make a profit and we can not do that with so few passengers . ’ |
| 11 | He turned back to the frying-pan , and she wondered how anyone could make her hackles rise with so few words . |
| 12 | But on the other hand , if they are supposed to be representatives of our society , then there 's obviously something wrong , when there are so few women , compared with so few men . |
| 13 | At that stage in his career no one was looking for a hit-machine : the longer heads realised that it was a difficult job to scale the face of Broadway — as it was in the West End — with so few footholds and even fewer helping ropes dangling down to give you a lift . |
| 14 | They are capable of packing an immense amount of precise , digital information into a very small space ; and they are capable of preserving this information — with astonishingly few errors , but still some errors — for a very long time , measured in millions of years . |
| 15 | Its members will be drawn mainly from the Commons ( the lower elected house ) , a few will be from the same party in the Lords ( the non-elected upper house ) and , although they remain in Parliament as MPs or peers , their role is very much as members of the executive , aiming to steer their programme through the assembly with as few complications or delays as possible . |
| 16 | ‘ It is very much in Courtaulds ’ interests to have a wider European Common Market with as few barriers as possible , ’ he said . |
| 17 | He considers taking an early flight because it is the quickest , doubts whether it will give him time to prepare and settles for the quickest later flight ; he wants to be bothered with as few suitcases as possible , starts packing the biggest he has , finds the lock broken and chooses another . |
| 18 | The initial concept of the T.4 was for a ‘ dual-control trainer with as few changes as possible ’ . |
| 19 | I want to do this thing as well as it can be done , and with as few deaths as we can manage . |
| 20 | The rates at which it has dealt , therefore , become quickly known in a market with comparatively few practitioners who are in continuous contact with each other . |
| 21 | After an extremely mixed summer weather wise , the spell of good weather at the tail end was almost ignored in Snowdonia , with surprisingly few teams on the major crags despite the dry conditions . |
| 22 | Nevertheless , the Japanese , with relatively few elements of their three-million strong army , achieved more rapid success than they had expected : by 11 January 1942 they had occupied the Celebes ; on 4 February the Allies on Amboina surrendered ; on 15 February Singapore fell , and on 19–20 February Timor was invaded , the main force of its defenders surrendering a few days later . |
| 23 | Thank you very much well it 's always a pleasure to hear of about the Seamanship Foundation and I 'm sure that , as you might be saying , and er the need for the foundation 's fundraising will be rather heightened this year as a result of last year 's drop but I 'm equally sure that you will get a tremendous amount of support from the members and on that note which I think is er also is an important method of concentrating our priorities and on the basis of we 're extremely lucky to be able to pursue a really very enjoyable pastime with relatively few problems and that if we can get those opportunities to many more , who would otherwise not be able to enjoy and in fact frequently do n't get to enjoy any other pastime , we should endeavour to do so and consider ourselves lucky that we can . |
| 24 | Archaeology therefore has the ability to impose , with relatively few complications , the particular contemporary boundaries of the nation-state upon its findings , and to identify these as the prehistory of Germany or Italy . |
| 25 | The majority of the company 's employees worked at this home plant , with relatively few workers located at other plants . |
| 26 | At present , with relatively few computers in schools this will be a problem , but hopefully in the future there will be plenty of computer time available . |
| 27 | While newer recruits prefer to pin their faith on an ‘ objective ’ , ‘ scientific ’ conception of pollution standards which should — in theory at least — be rigorously applied , the older men , with relatively few exceptions , prefer to ‘ be reasonable ’ and to ‘ understand the polluter 's problems ’ . |
| 28 | In these studies , multiple treatment variables with relatively few patients in each risk factor group have precluded detection of changes in the healing rate associated with non-pharmacological risk factors whose effects are usually smaller than those due to ulcer therapy . |
| 29 | Against the background of almost zero national population growth in the 1970s and 1980s , this has produced a mosaic of both absolute growth and absolute decline across Britain with relatively few places maintaining a static population size . |
| 30 | Cross-tabulation confirms this , with relatively few items not positively related to this issue . |