Example sentences of "[conj] with few " in BNC.

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1 The former , not having fallen in love , or with few of their emotions engaged , often continue to feel cheated .
2 Travellers on the road between Sedbergh and Kirkby Stephen , the A683 , pass through attractive countryside of contrasting landscapes , all fair to look upon and with few habitations to counter the loneliness of the surroundings .
3 The development officers clearly fulfilled the objectives established for them : they assessed their clients ’ needs , negotiated with other service-providers to obtain increased support from existing sources , they recruited local support workers for all clients whom they assessed as needing enhanced care ; this enhanced support was obtained quickly and with few difficulties , and clearly several very dependent clients were sustained at home as a result of this care .
4 He was heading for a desolate inland area in the north-east , a region without large cities and with few towns , a flat endless landscape of black earth , dotted with primitive cottages made of sods of turf and sticks .
5 Despite their preponderance in numbers still — for probably not a great many had been slain — fleeing in all directions as they had done , horseless and with few if any senior commanders , it was all but inconceivable that they could re-form and offer any coherent opposition .
6 Estranged from family , probably , and with few real friends .
7 I was n't a particularly happy person at the time ; lonely , in a rather dead-end job and with few personal relationships .
8 The conditions for a girl friendly school may be more difficult to bring about , for it would seem that teachers must be openly and visibly concerned about equality before pupils will change their choices ; schools with traditional norms , limited or formal communication channels , and with few women in senior positions will be much slower to adapt to changed female expectations .
9 The third common explanation suggested that growing up in a white racist society and with few positive black public images created low self-esteem and self-concept in black children which in turn led to poor performance in schools .
10 In Leicestershire their probate inventories show them to have been essentially large-scale farmers , generally working 100 acres or more , sometimes occupying two or more farms extending into more than one parish , renting additional pastures , and with few exceptions distinguished from plain husbandmen by superior wealth .
11 Some plants , most notably grasses , can be consumed without much difficulty and with few penalties , but a surprising number defend themselves .
12 The frequency with which the operation is carried out depends upon the plants involved and the compost or soil in which they were originally planted , but its need becomes apparent when the leaves of the plant become yellowish and get progressively smaller , and the blooms are of poor colour and with few petals .
13 They are square in plan and rise sheer to varying heights without ornament , abutment and with few openings .
14 However , City economists expect Britain 's trade deficit to improve , but with few expecting next year 's trade gap to be better than the £15 billion figure forecast by Mr Major in his autumn statement .
15 The literature of the last few years is thronged with papers proposing that these must be taken into account — but with few realistic proposals on how this is to be achieved .
16 Something she 'd suffered , like chickenpox : nasty , but with few if any lasting effects .
17 Cathedrals and churches tend to be large , with lofty nave , choir and transepts , but with few projections such as porches , portals or buttresses .
18 The Lesbianism and Socialism workshop raised many issues , but with few answers .
19 By the middle and late 1870s this situation had been substantially modified , but with few exceptions the rural population still largely prevailed over the urban .
20 A unit of traditional authority survived indeed in the Church ; but that rather favoured the independent cities , for with few exceptions each had its own cathedral and its own bishop ; often its own patron saint to protect it against its neighbours .
21 In the same field lies the open cluster NGC 2506 , easy with × 7 and large with × 20 , though with few individual stars .
22 King Robert himself came to his brother 's aid , though with few more than 5,500 trained fighters .
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