Example sentences of "[conj] few " in BNC.
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| 1 | Writing to Poole in April 1799 , when the Cruikshanks had gone , he remarked that ‘ excepting yourself & Mother there is no human being attached to us & few who do not dislike us ’ . |
| 2 | Indeed , access of only a few P. falciparum antigens to class I molecules , and the tendency of CTL responses to be focused on one or few foreign antigens , as observed in some other infections , may tend to magnify HLA class I differences in malaria susceptibility : LSA-1 is abundant within the parasitophorous vacuole . |
| 3 | Analyses tend to stop at higher education ; they note that few working-class pupils or few black people or few women go on to university or polytechnic ; they fail to look at what happens to those who do . |
| 4 | Analyses tend to stop at higher education ; they note that few working-class pupils or few black people or few women go on to university or polytechnic ; they fail to look at what happens to those who do . |
| 5 | For the few hours , the day or few days ' duration of the " event " , their labour force at the location in question increases many times in size . |
| 6 | Being told ( perhaps by an automatic booking system ) that there are 31 seats left is much less informative than being told that there are a lot or few , unless you have information about sizes of planes and expected booking rates . |
| 7 | It would thus be only for those films with generally low levels of subjective risk or few moving objects that subjects actually looked at the fixed information even in the recognition phase and were thus able to be biased by it . |
| 8 | There may also be a place for preserving a useful gall bladder in young patients with solitary or few stones , who may not reform stones . |
| 9 | The Patois index therefore tells us everything and nothing about an individual speaker : it tells us whether that person uses many or few Patois features overall in their talk , but nothing about how he or she uses Patois and English as part of a communicative strategy . |
| 10 | Wo would you like to try it for the next year , or few meetings ? |
| 11 | The style must disclose and be expressive of the moods , emotions and actions of the roles played even where few personal feelings are allowed to show , as in such ballets as Ashton 's Monotones where all that is needed is a calm , unhurried and seemingly endless weaving of the dance design in all its dimensions . |
| 12 | Putting a value on this kind of thing is a notoriously difficult area and one where few precedents exist . |
| 13 | These openings can be found by ramblers who prefer daylight to darkness and , like me , like to wander in search of them , but the black labyrinth to which they lead , the complex network below ground , is reserved exclusively for those experienced in subterranean travel , hardy adventurers who risk rockfalls and flooding to satisfy an insatiable curiosity to go where few men have been before , to see what few men have seen before . |
| 14 | But even where there may seem to have been little affection shown and where few apparent links remain , emotional ties that go back to earliest days are strong , and feelings about the death of a parent are bound to go deep . |
| 15 | The deeper forests are virtually hostile territory where few humans venture . |
| 16 | Their importance for the teacher is substantial — in a work environment where few other adults directly witness the quality of the teacher 's work , examination results provide one of the few public and apparently objective indicators of a teacher 's competence . |
| 17 | There is a sense of timelessness here — bathed in the dark but fragile blue of sorrow , from the cradle , to the convent school , to the galaxies Enya walks a starry path where few can follow . |
| 18 | Moreover , system investments have created economies of scale where few existed before and have begun to make it more possible to derive benefit from global ‘ scope ’ . |
| 19 | During infancy children tend to be kept most of the time in the small , dark interior of their hut , where they are rarely allowed to crawl on the floor , rarely spoken to or played with ( though always kept near the mother ) , and where few objects for play are available . |
| 20 | The competition was , alas , horrific , as they had ill-advisedly placed themselves in a predominantly female quarter of the hall , where few boys were bold enough to venture . |
| 21 | The latter was particularly appealing because it was a new industry , where few vested interests existed but which was nonetheless important for the future . |
| 22 | It was also a vital information centre , where spies mingled with oilmen , where officials of the local security forces met heir hookers , and where the waiters brought valuable intelligence every morning from their homes in the rabbit warrens in the ghettos and barrios where few diplomats or reporters dared go . |
| 23 | In addition to this settlement evidence , there is the suggestion of both pastoral areas — where few field boundaries have been recognised — and enclosed , presumably arable , areas where patterns of rectilinear fields can still be seen . |
| 24 | As you say , I live in a cold grey city where few people care . ’ |
| 25 | There are , however , advantages in delaying entry , particularly in this faculty where few subjects form part of the school curriculum . |
| 26 | Moreover , how important you think it is to justify your assertions will depend partly on what sort of writing you are engaged in ; a film review in a newspaper , for instance , is a genre where few assertions are justified . |
| 27 | This is of the form A-BC ( which would be meaningless at levels of more general affinity , and is excluded by the homogeneity of style at the unitary level ) , where some of the mosaicists responsible for mosaic A worked on B , and some of the mosaicists responsible for B worked on 6 , but where few mosaicists worked on both A and C. At each step in such a " distributed relationship " some craftsmen are " lost " . |
| 28 | With low ratio , four-wheel-drive selected in preference to the rear wheel drive high ratios recommended for road use , a combination of brute force and good tyres allows the vehicle to be forced over terrain where few would attempt to walk . |
| 29 | The Jeep Wrangler : an eye-catcher that can go where few people would attempt to walk |
| 30 | The unions were initially caught on the hop , because the disputes arose on the shop floor where few if any formal union representatives worked . |