Example sentences of "with very few [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But they had sympathy for doctors in Sarajevo who 've been doing their best to preserve life with very few medicines or facilities . |
| 2 | And Austicks described discounting this year as ‘ literally a non-event , at least in Yorkshire , with very few customers even mentioning the word ’ . |
| 3 | The annual totals are published with the permission of Islay Estates Ltd. where a remarkably long run of weather statistics has been kept with very few gaps . |
| 4 | Most full-time political representatives in Cuba are men , with very few women standing for election and even fewer succeeding . |
| 5 | The Americans have left us with very few stories to tell . |
| 6 | However , most of these were skeletal structures with very few members . |
| 7 | There was a hanging there of two people in a garden , with very few clothes on . |
| 8 | Thirdly , it is often impossible to tell from the inventory whether a person was poor or whether he was living in comfortable retirement , having already passed on most of his estate to his children ; a yeoman with very few possessions is likely to have been in the latter category . |
| 9 | And finally the other all London game between Crystal Palace and Queens Park Rangers ended without goals and with very few chances to either side . |
| 10 | Power has been concentrated in the Cabinet and in the hands of the Prime Minister , with very few checks and balances . |
| 11 | These restrict some of the conceivable processes whereby excitation could occur , while allowing others to occur with very few restrictions . |
| 12 | It was a small station in a rural area with very few employees . |
| 13 | When one thinks that in France the present generation has seen neither court gowns nor a ceremony of this sort and that , with very few exceptions , the ladies of high society do not come to the Tuileries , one is struck by the fact that everything should pass off so well and without lending itself to too much mockery . |
| 14 | With very few exceptions , depending on the shape of the dog 's head , all should have the so-called ‘ scissor-bite ’ . |
| 15 | With very few exceptions they have refrained from ostentation : indeed their Nonconformist distaste for personal extravagance , reinforced by infusions of Scottish blood , has sometimes prompted small economies which , in the light of their extraordinary benevolence to good causes , have been accepted as amusingly careful instead of absurdly mean . |
| 16 | With very few exceptions — and we shall come to one of the most remarkable of these in this chapter — it is a nocturnal hunter . |
| 17 | In any case , even for those with the extent and shape of garden to be able to consider size , shape of beds , borders and orientation , aspect is not of crucial major importance , because with very few exceptions , roses are hardy and do not need mollycoddling . |
| 18 | Ramblers With very few exceptions , the ramblers are distinguished from the climbers by flowering in one display of bloom and then no more , on long flexible stems that have developed the year before . |
| 19 | With very few exceptions , almost all the routes are on rough , near-virgin limestone , for only a small number of the easier classics have become polished — sadly , but perhaps inevitably , including the superb slabby pillar of Marie ( HVS5b ) . |
| 20 | There is little doubt Brits are among the world 's most powerful boulderers , but put them on anything higher than an average cellar roof and they climb , with very few exceptions , like pumped , nervous and confused lemmings . |
| 21 | With very few exceptions the rule is that Parliament determines the maximum penalty and it is then for the courts , having heard the evidence , and seen the defendant in person , and heard what can be said in mitigation on his behalf , to decide upon the appropriate punishment in all the circumstances of the case . |
| 22 | Though males usually grasp the females , the act of fertilisation still , with very few exceptions , takes place outside the body . |
| 23 | The introduction of girls was quite a novelty , as with very few exceptions the ancient grammar school foundations were generally only for boys . |
| 24 | Yet , with very few exceptions , they succeed in getting back to exactly the same stretch of river where they hatched . |
| 25 | by no means all words are equally mobile in this sense , but with very few exceptions , the smallest mobile units are words . |
| 26 | Dobereiner , Newlands and Mendeleev grouped the then known elements by chemical properties , and found that their masses formed a steady sequence , with very few exceptions . |
| 27 | With very few exceptions , judges are required to be selected from amongst practising barristers and it is difficult for anyone without a private income to survive the first years of practice . |
| 28 | With very few exceptions , however , this has not proved to be the case , largely because Latin American states have retained a high degree of integration with , and dependence on , the developed capitalist economies . |
| 29 | With very few exceptions , no foreigner was allowed in , and no native was allowed out . |
| 30 | As this provision catered for only a small proportion of part-time further education teachers and , with very few exceptions , led to no formal qualification , it in no way constituted an adequate or unified system of training . |