Example sentences of "find few " in BNC.
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| 1 | With so many players forced to defend , Everton found few opportunities to attack in any strength . |
| 2 | Yet Greenidge and Haynes found few problems , and when Haynes went Richards merely carried on as before . |
| 3 | He was always keen to discuss the world news , especially the news from Britain , but he found few takers that night . |
| 4 | The Wisharts had to catch the 10.30am train from King 's Cross and to their amazement they found few people in the usual queue ; they had bought newspapers and magazines to read on the journey and when they found an empty compartment they settled down . |
| 5 | The rest had been so well prepared for work by their previous sixteen years of socialisation that they found few problems . |
| 6 | Our results contrast with recent reports which found few γ-interferon secreting cells in normal human intestinal mucosa , but this absence could reflect the effects of isolating mucosal lymphocytes . |
| 7 | Although Almond and Verba found few people in their survey who actually sought to exert such influence , the proportion who believed that they could exert influence was significant . |
| 8 | My only hesitation when praising this excellent meat is that I have found few who like to eat cold lamb , and while curried leftovers are an option , I suggest buying a joint that can be eaten at one sitting . |
| 9 | Exeter Ford dealer Evans Halshaw also found few potential customers , and again there were good deals on offer with a five-door Fiesta 1.1 available for £6,801 — a saving of £283 . |
| 10 | Molly Izzard 's hatchet job , Freya Stark : A Biography ( Hodder ) , seems to have found few to appreciate it . |
| 11 | However , we have found few indications of any change in the relentless economic decline of areas such as Merseyside or Belfast . |
| 12 | Ellis Cashmore finds few surprises in Studs Terkel 's epic survey of US attitudes to race |
| 13 | We find few mentions of the bishops living at Halling now , although they still continued to use Trottescliffe . |
| 14 | Although Anderson 's attitudes towards his interlocutors may have changed in the example above , we actually find few interruptions because the speech situations dramatised in Professional Foul are generally co-operative . |
| 15 | It would find few backers among politicians worried about jobs and living standards rather than market share . |
| 16 | The newspaper 's lyrical reporter could find few moaners among the local population . |
| 17 | And apart from certain specialised domains ( the lexicon of skateboarding or knitting for example ) you will also find few words whose source is a text written by somebody working class , or black , or for that matter female . |
| 18 | You will find few , if any , in the Brandstetter novels of Joseph Hansen , excellent though they are . |
| 19 | My final choice will doubtless find few supporters elsewhere , but I want someone with the dynamism to ensure that no winning opportunity is missed . |
| 20 | Pointing out the growing difficulty in policing the densely populated Gaza Strip , and stressing that , unlike the West Bank , Jews could find few meaningful historical links with Gaza , the plan advocated the handing over of the area either to the UN or to a governing body of Palestinians . |
| 21 | While you will find few Eastern European organisations listed there , conglomerates with a Eastern European presence do feature in the publication . |