Example sentences of "few people " in BNC.
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| 1 | Charlie 's departure is the first of several , and this event is succeeded by the announcement of a further theme when the rabbi 's thunderings pass over the heads of his congregation and the writer notes : ‘ in later years I would wonder how different my life might have been if a few people , those closest to me , had been frightened — just a little . ’ |
| 2 | Representatives of the few people they had come to know in the course of their wanderings round the world were left to clear up . |
| 3 | We have also followed his preparations for the world title bout with Karpov , some of us , it must be confessed , with a certain amount of incredulity , since , however much these world championship matches are now dependent on stamina rather than brilliance , it has struck more than a few people that a chess player is not a footballer , in particular a fifty-year-old self-exiled Russian Grandmaster is not a footballer , and that to think that by training like one he will become as fit is not only an illusion , it is a dangerous illusion . |
| 4 | Very few people do , sir . |
| 5 | Few people have been allowed to do any extensive fieldwork . |
| 6 | The few people who were visible looked like a crew of spectres as the shadowed hollows in their faces shifted with the wavering of the flames . |
| 7 | A few people stared . |
| 8 | The benefits of this type of training for the heart and lungs are enormous , but very few people who train ever reach this level . |
| 9 | A few people wish to arrange a burial without the help of a funeral director . |
| 10 | And there are a few people who wo n't be pleased whatever you do . |
| 11 | His major work was done in Russia in the 1930s and 1940s , he suffered Stalinist repression , was partly rehabilitated , and died in 1975 , at a time when very few people in the West had heard of him . |
| 12 | He is one of the few people I have ever met who has never been either inflated or deflated by personal possessions . |
| 13 | Few people thought the Tigrayans could continue their success outside their own province , but on 26 August the TPLF began an advance which drove the government forces out of Korem and Kobo . |
| 14 | But the villages are dying , becoming suburbs or dormitories where few people work but many sleep . |
| 15 | But few people took seriously the idea of such a hulk of a man going without food . |
| 16 | Sylvia is one of the few people who has learnt to interpret Elaine 's noises . |
| 17 | Few people are unwilling to give their organs posthumously — those that are , usually make their views clearer . |
| 18 | We arrived at the little house in the evening and already there were a few people there . |
| 19 | He said : ‘ We have very good arguments to prove that we can not be held responsible for the actions of a few people who did not know what they were doing . |
| 20 | There will be a few people , beginning with Mr Fallon , looking for their own McGoolies when this is over . ’ |
| 21 | Few people would wish to deny a woman 's right to know whether the baby she is carrying is disabled , and to decide — with counselling if needed - whether she wants to have it . |
| 22 | I think it genuinely irresponsible that someone with my theatrical track-record has written a play about this internationally known theatrical figure yet it has only been seen by a few people . ’ |
| 23 | He writes books and articles few people want to read . |
| 24 | He added : ‘ A few people had their eyes opened . |
| 25 | Few people enjoy game rich with the taste of decay and cheeses that stink of mortality . |
| 26 | ' I was objecting that , whatever you thought of Reagan , the United States was the archetypal democracy ; Mr Healey was remarking how very few people bothered to vote there at all , only one in five of the eligible voters having been enough to elect Bush ; and then we arrived obliquely at the part played in politics by exhaustion . |
| 27 | Surveys of opinion invariably revealed that , while attachment to Britain remained strong , patriotic emotions still flourished , and very few people ever wished to live anywhere but in Britain , estimates of national progress and decline were progressively more gloomy . |
| 28 | Then they had to brace themselves to pass the few people standing along the church wall . |
| 29 | They chose the London Hospital because a few people from around were already working there . |
| 30 | This stage was followed by the introduction of individual ownership and this was followed by a few people gradually monopolizing the ownership of the means of production . |