Example sentences of "and few " in BNC.
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| 1 | But an auction is mainly a bullish market ; vendors are trying to improve their prices , and few except dealers are selling on the market 's way down , in order to rebuy . |
| 2 | Of course not all policemen are in absolute positions of command even though they represent the maintenance of structure in more than a symbolic way ; and few can move into communitas to experience the temptations described above . |
| 3 | Because of his father 's incapacity , Leonard grew up with all the advantages of family prestige , and few of its responsibilities . |
| 4 | Only a small minority of tenants were taking guest beers and few of them were worried about losing them , Tuppen claimed . |
| 5 | And few would disagree that , given the fanaticism and sheer ferocity of tabloid prejudice , it would be unreasonable for gay people to expect that Labour should adopt our cause as an election issue . |
| 6 | There will be no stay of execution and few mourners for this spoiled concrete child of the Sixties . |
| 7 | A point in the Slaski Stadium would carry Bobby Robson 's team into the finals , and few Poles doubt their chances . |
| 8 | Many of the gags expire when extended beyond a comic-strip frame , and few of the clever puns which have secured Asterix an adult following , survive translation . |
| 9 | ‘ For many farmers it spells financial disaster and few of the smaller ones have recovered . |
| 10 | A Supreme Soviet of fine words and few deeds could quickly become just an irritant , a scapegoat for a ‘ democratization ’ which does not put goods in the shops . |
| 11 | Many of the gags expire when extended beyond a comic-strip frame , and few of the clever puns which have secured Asterix an adult following , survive translation . |
| 12 | Few of the newcomers know any Hebrew and few have more than the vaguest idea about Israel . |
| 13 | I have no doubt that if the ground is in his favour Carvill 's Hill will start a good favourite and few will want to oppose him . |
| 14 | The directors of Kelso , however , are disappointed at the continual absence of southern trained horses at their meetings , though half the prizes are at around £1,500 to the winner and few above the £2,500 mark . |
| 15 | Such cases are few and far between and few have been proven . |
| 16 | Oil exports are expected to increase this year , but will soon fall back ; domestic consumption is soaring ( because the stuff is so cheap ) , and few new wells are being drilled in the forests . |
| 17 | The Japanese presence has been pared to a minimum : only 25 Japanese managers , and few cultural references . |
| 18 | And few of the people who hit the glass ceiling are inclined to go through the additional pain of a complaint to the government or a court case . |
| 19 | Many pointedly refer to themselves as ‘ Königsberger ’ and few feel threatened by the influx of German tourists and money into the region . |
| 20 | And few bids have ended up in bankruptcy . |
| 21 | And few ghetto blacks have cars . |
| 22 | The home bowler of the series was Colin Croft with twenty-four wickets at under 19 , and few English batsmen will have been sorry that he played in only two rubbers against them . |
| 23 | There had been no sense of impending crisis and few newspapers were seriously featuring the Falklands situation prior to the invasion . |
| 24 | But the reality is far , far different , and few of us can take that much reality . |
| 25 | He wanted no parties , and few visitors . |
| 26 | Perhaps surprisingly , even today most of these metals are still of considerable importance and few ‘ new ’ metals have superseded them except for certain specialised uses ; one metal unknown to the ancients which is used in large quantities today is aluminium . |
| 27 | During the third millennium BC most axes were made of unalloyed copper and few were of arsenical copper , but by the middle of the third millennium arsenical copper gradually supplanted copper and this , in turn , was replaced by tin bronze and also some leaded tin bronze . |
| 28 | He was in good shape and in good heart , and although it was known that he did not run up to his best at Cheltenham , the conditions would suit him much more than those of a year ago and few opposed him . |
| 29 | The tactic of confronting the ‘ wasted vote ’ syndrome did not , as some had feared , backfire , and few would have predicted that the issue of proportional representation would have been splashed across front pages . |
| 30 | THE OXFORD BOOK OF APHORISMS ed by John Gross Oxford , £6.99 APHORISMS in the post-Johnsonian sense of ‘ a short pithy statement containing a truth of general import ’ are verbal successes that everyone strives for and few achieve , as Thoreau said , and John Gross here quotes , ‘ A perfectly healthy sentence is extremely rare . ’ |