Example sentences of "has few [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But even if the Church takes this controversial step , there remains the fact that it has few structures for evaluating its chief resource . |
| 2 | The park authority itself has few powers over agricultural change — control of the largest and a few other farm buildings but little else — and must operate by giving counter advice and offering compensation to the Farmer who proposes an action that is seen to be damaging . |
| 3 | INSURANCE giant General Accident has few grumbles over its £21 million loss in the first six months of the year . |
| 4 | The human information processing system generally has few problems with spoken or written language , even when the stimulus is noisy or ambiguous . |
| 5 | The Office is currently considering the establishment of a computer-readable data archive ( CRDA ) , and although it has few answers to the problems facing the world archival community in such matters , I hope that it is in the position to ask some interesting questions . |
| 6 | Biodiesel , made from rapeseed , has few advantages over conventional diesel , according to a report by Germany 's Federal Environment Office , which states that there are cheaper and more effective ways of reducing greenhouse gas emissions than by subsidising biodiesel production . |
| 7 | The claim is to be presented to the UN Compensation Commission , but the commission " set up after the war to co-ordinate claims against Iraq " has few funds at its disposal . |
| 8 | Fat Paul , I would say , has few anxieties about his accent . |
| 9 | Like Robert Hardy — and like Hardy , Mitchell is an intelligent , thoughtful and trustworthy man — he has few qualifications about Burton at this stage : Burton would be nineteen , twenty , twenty-one . |
| 10 | The Minister has few suggestions on how to combat that problem and the Government have cut the number of customs officers by 400 . |
| 11 | She has few hopes of happiness in marriage . |
| 12 | He has few hobbies outside of football although , even with his eyesight , he does like reading sell-by dates on goods in shops . |
| 13 | Milan has few fountains for so Mediterranean a city and this one , the oldest , was itself only built in 1782 to a design by Piermarini . |
| 14 | As a gentleman of sincerity Ally MacLeod , now enjoying his third spell as manager of Ayr United , has few equals in the world of football . |
| 15 | As a monument to extravagance of taste it has few equals in England , although it may not entirely justify the descriptions of a series of upended turnips stuck on boxes or St Paul 's pups which two irreverent contemporaries , William Cobbett and Dean Smith , bestowed on it . |
| 16 | The mountain peaks of Christian belief are travelled there in a style that has few rivals in the whole history of the church , and none at all in the twentieth century . |
| 17 | No wonder Dolly Parton has few fans in Ulan Bator ! |