Example sentences of "[noun] few [noun] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In addition few people believed that FDP officers could easily relinquish their former role . |
| 2 | In any case few statesmen grasped that there was a profound contradiction between the economic and the social policies being pursued by the government . |
| 3 | Further , although half were involved in general inspection few advisers wanted to spend more time on it ( again senior staff were the exception ) . |
| 4 | In the heat of the action few players had time to discuss their reactions and were kept clear of the press . |
| 5 | This was an important step towards a national health service , though in practice few authorities did much to modernize their facilities . |
| 6 | In practice few debtors went out , but the settlers were helped liberally with private and public funds administered by the charitable trust created to run the colony . |
| 7 | Such were the army , in which both George I and George II took a strong personal interest , and foreign policy , about which as a rule few ministers knew or cared very much . |
| 8 | Life may be easier there today , but when I was a child few people had cars and buses were infrequent . |
| 9 | In this storm of righteous indignation few commentators made the important but disheartening point that , except in moments of obvious crisis , the man in the street was as a rule little interested in foreign policy questions . |
| 10 | In those days few ministers thought it necessary to attend their own counts , and Baldwin had his vigil in the No. 10 secretaries ' room enlivened by the presence of Churchill : ‘ The P.M. [ sat ] with narrow slips of paper on which he inscribed the three lists as they arrived . |
| 11 | For 10 years few people knew anything about it . |
| 12 | Though the man in front of him looked human enough , he had the voiders in tow , and spoke with knowledge of things few humans had access to . |
| 13 | She nodded , and they set off again to find a Venice few tourists saw . |
| 14 | When international marketing first appeared as a distinct subject few writers described it by any title other than that . |
| 15 | Her father , Peter Few Brown said they 'd had a good visit . |
| 16 | Even with child the woman was incredibly lovely , a graceful creature with an aura of that unique beauty few women possessed . |
| 17 | However , on Kemp 's account few artists took notice of the philosophical , mathematical and scientific innovations of Descartes and Kepler . |
| 18 | But away from the cameras few people gave them much chance of a future together . |
| 19 | At that time few tourists went to Greece during the summer ; some goats wandered among the fallen pillars , the goat-herd dozed in the shade , otherwise I had the place to myself . |
| 20 | During that time few people left the village at night . |