Example sentences of "and [prep] few " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Estranged from family , probably , and with few real friends . |
| 6 | I was n't a particularly happy person at the time ; lonely , in a rather dead-end job and with few personal relationships . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Some plants , most notably grasses , can be consumed without much difficulty and with few penalties , but a surprising number defend themselves . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | They are square in plan and rise sheer to varying heights without ornament , abutment and with few openings . |
| 13 | In most of the present liberal-democratic countries it required many decades of agitation and organization , and in few countries was anything like it achieved until late in the nineteenth century . |
| 14 | At the centre , community care has been talked of for thirty years and in few areas can the gap between political rhetoric and policy on the one hand , or between policy and reality in the field on the other hand , have been so great . |