Example sentences of "they have few [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Back home they had few conveniences … every day Jill Worthington boiled up nappies for Sally . |
| 2 | They had few friends in France , and without them the dazzling night life meant nothing . |
| 3 | In Brazil , there came a romanticism of Indian life , though by the time of the establishment of the Republic in 1889 , they had few rights and the rubber boom brought entrepreneurs to the uppermost headwaters of the Amazon followed by railways and telegraph lines . |
| 4 | They had few doubts that the Army could recruit as many regulars as it really needed , within reason , provided the country was prepared to pay enough for them . |
| 5 | What made it more difficult for the social workers in Orkney , she said , was the very small size of the department ; they had few colleagues with whom to share the stress . |
| 6 | There were indeed three men of £200 at Cirencester , a major centre of the West of England wool trade , but they had few peers locally ; Newbury had four big clothiers , including the son of the legendary John Winchcombe , who was worth £630 , but here too there was no concentration of wealth comparable with that of Suffolk . |
| 7 | Previously they had few books or toys . |
| 8 | as indeed they were in 1922–23 , but they had few prospects under coalition . |
| 9 | This can not be achieved by existing military contractors moving into civilian markets for which they have few skills , but by giving the market-oriented companies more access to ‘ front-line ’ technology . |
| 10 | We are able to get to rabbits in situations where they have few enemies , where they are generally safe — and they have no sanctuary if we do the work well . |
| 11 | Such groups may be informal in the sense that they have few rules , enjoy participative leadership and have flexible roles . |
| 12 | Society tends to ignore the inherent sexuality of younger teenagers , especially girls , preferring to see them as innocent children , so consequently when girls do fall pregnant , they have few rights or benefits as mothers . |
| 13 | Structurally they have few cuticle appendages and the buccal capsule is vestigial . |
| 14 | Operators in other countries may maintain that they have ‘ commercial ’ digital services , but as yet they have few customers and they are finding it hard to rival the falling prices of analogue cellular networks . |
| 15 | Still , in the art of qualification they have few equals . |
| 16 | MCKENNAS have shown they have few equals in the Antrim District Darts League with a 10–0 whitewash Skeffington . |
| 17 | They have few demands beyond a supply of food and water . |
| 18 | Usually they have few opportunities to check that their instructions are being pursued and almost none to supervise their execution at first hand . |
| 19 | They frequently work within structures of insecurity — their jobs are unskilled , poorly paid and often part-time ; they have few fringe benefits ; and they may work unsocial hours in poor working conditions , lacking the security of trade unions or protective legislation ( see Susan Lonsdale 's chapter in this volume ) . |