Example sentences of "[was/were] too few " in BNC.
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| 1 | The SD in the industrial town of Schweinfurt in Lower Franconia reported complaints in March 1941 from the poorer sections of the population that badges bearing a picture of the Führer could only be obtained through a sizeable contribution to Winter Aid collectors , and that there were too few to satisfy the demand . |
| 2 | But when I played it I thought that in some of the climaxes the original twenty-three strings were too few to make a full effect . |
| 3 | And since international competition in manufacturing is substantially dependent on comparable scales of production , it can be argued that , in absolute terms , by the early 1970s there were too few workers in British industry , especially in those involving advanced technology . |
| 4 | Hospitals in the eighteenth century may not have made national mortality worse ( Cherry 1980 ) , but they were too few to improve the national health . |
| 5 | remain in Japan even after the Peace Treaty , since the Japanese police were too few and their armament inadequate to maintain public order should the Communists attempt an offensive in Asia as they had already done in Europe . |
| 6 | Rooms were too few and stairs too narrow ; ceilings were too low or , on the upper floor , did not exist , so that sleepers stifled in summer and froze in winter . |
| 7 | Neither philanthropists nor speculators could solve the problem of the very poor ; there were too few philanthropists , and no speculator could make housing for the poorest pay . |
| 8 | There were too few parish priests in the countryside , too many canons , vast numbers of unbeneficed priests , and hangers-on in minor orders in the towns . |
| 9 | In 1984 primiparous women over 35 were too few for analysis . |
| 10 | Questions to which there were too few answers . |
| 11 | There were too few middle school non-respondents for a meaningful discriminant analysis . |
| 12 | Frequent prior recurrence ( p=0.464 ) , a heavy physical workload ( p=0.145 ) , and psychological stress ( p=0.062 ) were not associated with a decreased healing rate and there were too few patients at risk to allow assessment of the effect of regular NSAID intake . |
| 13 | Neutrophils , eosinophils , and basophils were too few to count and could not be analysed further . |
| 14 | In this study , there were too few patients who became menopausal during the study for valid analyses . |
| 15 | boundaries though were too few and far between … |
| 16 | There were too few witnesses , and too few clues . |
| 17 | The thaw which had so earnestly menaced France 's lifeline to Verdun became , on balance , more her ally than her foe ; it turned the pulverised earth into a glutinous quagmire that sucked off the close-fitting knee-boots of the German infantry ; the 8-ton howitzers sank up to their axles in it , and the Germans ' new motor tractors were too few and too under-powered to extract them . |