Example sentences of "be that few " in BNC.
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| 1 | My own experience , even before I was directly concerned in sexual therapy , has always been that few marital problems arise in which there is not some sexual content . |
| 2 | One of the main barriers between the development of general purpose systems has been that few existing systems can be re-used . |
| 3 | However , a practical consequence of this approach might be that few people would be prepared to consider such a sweeping initial recommendation . |
| 4 | It may be that few people in Japan have yet made this connection , or realise the sheer scale of the catastrophe in Africa . |
| 5 | The general consensus is that few horses should be inconvenienced by the ground . |
| 6 | What is significant , however , is that few of the grant-aided organisations that we came from still exist today . |
| 7 | We all have an enormous capacity for working with figures ; the only trouble is that few of us believe it . |
| 8 | The reality is that few of you will be as fortunate . |
| 9 | From the welter of information available , perhaps the most significant point to emerge from user studies is that few , if any , of their findings lend themselves to general applicability . |
| 10 | The result today is that few important functions ( measured in terms of expenditure ) are handled by local government in Northern Ireland : most , like housing , are instead the responsibility of non-elected quangos or , like education , of area boards . |
| 11 | The trouble is that few of us have a clear idea of what our motivated abilities are . |
| 12 | The corollary to this is that few books that are too enjoyable , too funny , or too popular could possibly be ‘ classics ’ . |
| 13 | For the truth is that few Bibles produced over the last 370 years have any substantial value , neither have a great many from the period before that . |
| 14 | The main stumbling block for all suppliers like NEC is that few city networks have much hard currency to spend on new equipment , and since local rouble telephone charges are so low , no company can recoup the initial investment from tariff income . |
| 15 | The danger is that few firms will exploit the flexibility . |
| 16 | For Community Care 's readers , an even more unpalatable fact is that few social workers have any idea what to do if they suspect elder abuse or know it occurs . |
| 17 | The main point to make , however , is that few teachers consciously build in such skills when planning resource-based exercises , and regrettably few teachers could either articulate the nine simple points above or even demonstrate very convincingly their own abilities in a library setting . |
| 18 | A crucial problem for phenomenalism of either sort is that few philosophers have attempted , and none have remotely succeeded , in showing what such a reduction would look like in detail . |
| 19 | The reason for this is that few localities contain populations which closely replicate the national profile and even fewer record rates of change similar to the nation as a whole . |
| 20 | First came the decision to award Esther Rantzen a new contract worth £1.2m when the consensus is that few people can stand the sight of her . |
| 21 | Another frequent complaint is that few managers seem to add real value to the work of their subordinates . |
| 22 | The reality was that few had attained that ambition though some had tried . |