Example sentences of "of few " in BNC.
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| 1 | Certainly of few things more uninteresting . |
| 2 | Whether or not this is so , few would deny that Abbado is a sound choice , a man of few words who nevertheless commands great respect among orchestral players and is as highly praised for his Rossini as for his Mahler , his Mozart or his Brian Ferneyhough . |
| 3 | Mrs. Wexford was a woman of few words . |
| 4 | Man that is born of woman is of few days and full of trouble … |
| 5 | She was one of few women to comment on Ashdown the hunk : ‘ I prefer the darker type , you know , with smouldering eyes . ’ |
| 6 | One of few optimists is Sir Lawrie Barratt , who claims pent-up demand after years of inertia will lead to a housing recovery this year , starting in the South East . |
| 7 | In a game of few scoring opportunities , Coventry lacked the power and precision revealed by Campbell in the 29th minute after he ran on to Limpar 's lobbed pass . |
| 8 | Daley 's 66th-minute decider was one of few moments of excitement though , once in front , Villa could easily have sealed their victory with two more goals in the ensuing five minutes . |
| 9 | Employing one of those supremely disingenuous somersaults of logic that only long training in double-speak and the official brand of British arrogance can confer , Mr Howard told a Westminster audience of backbenchers that ‘ If the Commission were to take us to the European Court I can think of few things more calculated to bring the Commission into disrepute ’ |
| 10 | Most formidable of all is the Scots joiner grandfather , ‘ dour , stern , Calvinistic … a man of few words , just and honest in his dealings , but feared by his family . ’ |
| 11 | The glass cone at Lemington , although incomplete , is one of few such survivals in Britain , and particularly in the region where the Venerable Bede tells us that French glassmakers were brought over to teach the ‘ English nation their handicraft ’ , which had been lost here after the departure of the Romans . |
| 12 | ( I miss out the word puking from this Shakespearean phrase since I know of few instances in which a baby has strained the cassock of the clergyman baptising it , though doubtless readers may know of one . ) |
| 13 | The school kitchen consistently sustained heavy losses and was locked into an unhappy spiral of few pupils — low income — small choice — few pupils . |
| 14 | The type is one of few aeroplanes which can be adapted for those with any form of physical handicap , which would otherwise preclude them from captaining a ‘ normal ’ aircraft . |
| 15 | Bill Templeman was a man of few words . |
| 16 | Ruth could think of few worse fates , but her stomach lurched at the thought of leaving Millfield . |
| 17 | A man of few words , but strong opinions , the England skipper is not prone to make rash assessments . |
| 18 | Mauve , a man of few words , said , ‘ Stay then . ’ |
| 19 | At a time of few exchange controls , vast sums of money can be freely moved around by companies , investment managers and individuals to obtain the best return and seek the safest protection of capital . |
| 20 | ‘ Likewise , ’ Hay the Constable added briefly , always a young man of few words . |
| 21 | Monkou , bought from Chelsea for £750,000 this season , limited Chris Kiwomya 's attacking abilities in a game of few opportunities . |
| 22 | But in a game of few clear openings , Gunn coped well and the absence of the Sudbury 'keeper , who took two heavy knocks in the opening exchanges , made little material difference to the pattern of the game . |
| 23 | HUSBAND Ernst Hort was a man of few words . |
| 24 | The hosts , and what a superbly organised lot they were , with the help of few French travellers , gave a good account of themselves , notably against the tiring Irish . |
| 25 | His scale of values was that of few men , and it is hard to point to any of his successors who carried on his work . |
| 26 | This quotation sums up the reason for the publication by WACC of Few Voices , Many Worlds . |
| 27 | But the garrison , distressed by the revelation that Dr McNab had actually written a description in his diary of his own wife 's death by cholera , feared that in the case of Dr McNab even the caricature of a Scot might be mild in comparison with the truth ; they could think of few less tantalizing prospects than that their deaths should become medical statistics . |
| 28 | The next three years at this school are the source of few and faint memories , but school relieved the loneliness of only-childhood . |
| 29 | In the 1984 debate on the shipbuilding industry Peter Shore , the opposition spokesman on Trade and Industry , said : ‘ I can think of few industries where the medium to long-term view of demand is more necessary . ’ |
| 30 | Yet the use of few parameters , if they are well chosen , can still be an efficient means of pollution control . |