Example sentences of "[pers pn] few " in BNC.
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| 1 | The efforts of pacifists to prevent the Second World War have won them few friends . |
| 2 | He gave me few specific directions , but I could pour out my hopes and fears and failures and be reassured and restored . |
| 3 | I do n't think they 've changed that since I few Concorde ( my one and only time ) ‘ twixt LHR and JFK in February 1978 . |
| 4 | And she few days . |
| 5 | You few must seem to be many . ’ |
| 6 | Mind you few customers are likely to care what they 're eating after a couple of glasses of Mulsum : Salute . |
| 7 | ‘ We few , we happy few , we band of brothers ; |
| 8 | That indeed is the nature of persuasive reasoning , but those who judge , be they few or many , must go beyond it to reason their way to a logically necessary conclusion . |
| 9 | " Whenever men rule by virtue of their wealth , be they few or many , there you have oligarchy ; and where the poor rule , there you have democracy . " |
| 10 | But Wilson , who was more visible during the election than many ministers , would be well advised not to pen an account of the real campaign — his version of the Alliance 's 1987 effort won him few friends . |
| 11 | Endill 's habit of asking questions made him few friends . |
| 12 | She was , he guessed , in her late thirties , and was uncompromisingly plain in a way it struck him few women nowadays were . |
| 13 | It would win him few friends in the offices of Century , few cosy evenings with his subordinates in the clubland of Mayfair . |
| 14 | Life , Blanche soon discovered , had given him few reasons to do so . |
| 15 | That 's how he is , he just come around , crack him few sarcastic jokes about black kids . |
| 16 | Sununu 's abrasive and often arrogant personal style won him few friends during his three-year tenure at the White House . |
| 17 | Without it few executives reach great organizational heights . |
| 18 | We live in a hi-tech society , so why is it few people can pass a fountain or a well without dropping in a coin ? |
| 19 | Such meteorites give us few clues as to the prevalence of life on other worlds ; however , members of a different class of meteorites — the carbonaceous chondritescontain organic chemicals , leading us to believe that the building blocks of life must be fairly commonplace . |
| 20 | Not only is the system incapable of answering this type of question , even the General Theory gives us few clues apart from the somewhat cursory treatment of the two elasticities , e p and e y , in Keynes 's generalized quantity theory of money . |
| 21 | Erm obviously the er and as Alan 's asked us few weeks ago , permission to explore maybe looking for the finances , if and when it became the situation . |