Example sentences of "few at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There 's quite a few at the back now , is n't there ? |
| 2 | He was shouting at the top of his voice into the microphone but save for a few at the front of the crowd , nobody could hear a word because someone had cut the amplifier cable . |
| 3 | In the final analysis , collective security was founded on what Nizan referred to as the Soviet formula of " treaties accessible to everyone " , not on the Hitlerian formula of " treaties accessible to a few at the exclusion of everyone else " , Nizan ceaselessly denounced all attempts to reduce international diplomacy to what he disparagingly termed " private agreements between gang leaders " . |
| 4 | " Few at the moment , but money buys us a lot of friends . |
| 5 | While a good case can , in retrospect , he made for the national interest being served by higher prices , there were few at the time who argued against the interpretation of Citrine and Self that there was a long-run obligation to sell as much electricity as possible at as low a price as possible . |
| 6 | Capitalism is a system of producing profit and gain for a few at the expense of others . |
| 7 | At that point the CNAA was still primarily concerned with the validation of new degree courses in business studies , with few at the stage of application for renewal of approval . |