Example sentences of "with few [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Individuals lower down the organisation may be given little responsibility with few decisions delegated down the organisation to them . |
| 2 | The pay is usually appalling for those who do n't speak much of any language but their own and want cash in hand with few questions asked . |
| 3 | Bare heads with few feathers enable them to reach into carcases of dead animals without becoming matted with blood . |
| 4 | THE market continued to drift during the Wall Street holiday , with few investors prepared to put their hands in their pockets . |
| 5 | A series of police operations in Istanbul , Ankara and Adana , mainly directed against safe houses of Turkey 's principal urban guerrilla organisation , Devrimci Sol , in which casualties were high with few prisoners taken , fuelled allegations that the police were shooting to kill with out giving a warning or an opportunity to surrender . |
| 6 | On a quiet day , with few shares changing hands , the German central bank 's anticipated change in interest rates was expected to make an impression on the FTSE . |
| 7 | Even if an officer is working on a pollution problem requiring repeated visits , he continues to do the unpredictable wherever possible to provide the polluter with few opportunities to organize his activities so as to create a spurious impression that things are under control . |
| 8 | Not so long ago , a haulage company would send its drivers out into the world with few opportunities to communicate with then until they returned . |
| 9 | Travellers on the road between Sedbergh and Kirkby Stephen , the A683 , pass through attractive countryside of contrasting landscapes , all fair to look upon and with few habitations to counter the loneliness of the surroundings . |
| 10 | They provided many of the resources for the celebrations and allowed the students to proceed as they wished with few officials presiding over events . |
| 11 | Make comparisons with other organisations , e.g. Leisure centres £250 per annum with few facilities included ; slimming beds from £250 with no other activities etc . |
| 12 | Here the outcome is still very unpredictable , with few precedents to follow . |
| 13 | The US Federal Trade Commission 's investigation of Microsoft Corp has had an air of unreality about it , with few people imagining that it will come to anything very much or lead to any significant change in the market , but now that the thing may be coming to a climax , what are the possible outcomes ? |
| 14 | This phenomenon was more marked in the three model biles with few vesicles remaining after the addition of 10 µmol/ml of lecithin . |
| 15 | Ralph Berger and Ian Oswald established that the REM sleep periods characterized by few and small eye movements were accompanied by experiences of what they called " passive " dreaming , with few events reported that the subject could have been scanning . |
| 16 | Despite the fact no-one doubts that popular opinions on crime and its containment are extensively and deeply held , whenever Criminal Justice Bills are before the Commons the atmosphere seems detached and wary , with few MPs participating and a majority keeping the subject at arms length . |
| 17 | Both the French government and French farming unions traditionally favoured linking farm incomes mainly to prices rather than to " social handouts " ( although , according to the Financial Times of May 22 , there was in late 1991 " a growing realization by farming leaders that some kind of social help was needed to enable an ageing farming population with few successors to retire peacefully " ) . |
| 18 | In Leicestershire their probate inventories show them to have been essentially large-scale farmers , generally working 100 acres or more , sometimes occupying two or more farms extending into more than one parish , renting additional pastures , and with few exceptions distinguished from plain husbandmen by superior wealth . |
| 19 | It has also been claimed that towns were centres of consumption rather than production and that even local trade was insignificant in volume because of poor transport facilities , while long distance trade was with few exceptions restricted to luxuries because there was no mass-market . |