Example sentences of "[ex0] [was/were] so few " in BNC.
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| 1 | The big regatta dances in the huge grey tent down by the quay in Carrick were just beginning but there were so few days left of the holiday that Maggie preferred to spend them about the house chatting with Rose or her sisters around the fire or talking with Michael out in the front garden among his flowerbeds ; and sometimes during long breaks in the rain they would go out to where Moran was tidying up in the meadows . |
| 2 | Part of the difficulty in compiling these accounts was that there were so few survivors from the coastal towns in the Sunda Straits which were most directly affected , and those who had survived were often too distraught and confused to give an accurate description of what they had experienced . |
| 3 | More than a decade ago you could have chosen the best nylon line from those manufactured as easily as sifting maggots from casters , there were so few good ones and so many bad ones . |
| 4 | The meeting of 1950 agreed that future meetings should be held in Yorkshire , and the earlier amendment of 1920 allowing it to take place in Lancashire ( as there were so few archery clubs in the north ) be rescinded . |
| 5 | As there were so few Asians in our part of London it could hardly have been anyone else , but the person had a scarf over most of his face and looked like a nervous bank robber who could n't find a bank . |
| 6 | There were so few available , and completed aircraft were far too expensive . |
| 7 | The slave-owners had acted in bad faith over amelioration ; there were so few exceptions to the ‘ state of debauchery and debasement ’ of the colonists that reformers were fully justified , they believed , in their condemnation of ‘ the present state of corrupted morality and religion in the West Indies ’ . |
| 8 | He ducked down the back stairs — glad , for once , that there were so few lights working along the landings — as his visitors strode towards the front . |
| 9 | No summary table is given here because there were so few questions . |
| 10 | I was going to say that everyo ebs absolutely everyone is against war but not many people actually joined the United Nations after the war for a very small subscription or not many groups of people have many members in it , and of course because there were so few members in it , they a they went one particular way which a lot of people that had joined did n't agree with and so they came out of it . |
| 11 | Explaining why she thought there were so few women in science , she said : |
| 12 | There were so few possessions or comforts in the room that it was clear Mr Sikes had met hard times . |
| 13 | But knowing there were so few left |
| 14 | It was a Fleet Street joke that there were so few word processors in the Post 's editorial departments . |
| 15 | There were so few homes where she could relax and , without talking about the hidden things , not be consciously hiding them . |
| 16 | He always felt slightly guilty that there were so few suitable for this role in the parish . |
| 17 | There were so few left active to sustain the burden afterwards . |
| 18 | Is the Minister aware that perhaps there were so few representations to his right hon. Friend the Secretary of State because the steel industry has been decimated in Scotland , especially in Lanarkshire ? |
| 19 | It was certainly true that there were very few Labour Party full-time agents in the armed forces , but one major reason for this was that there were so few of them even in peacetime , and , of those who existed , many were above the age of military service . |
| 20 | But the custom had lost its meaning because there were so few private traders left , and company managers are faceless men , here today and gone tomorrow . |
| 21 | Lucy Lippard wrote about Eva Hesse in 1976 : ‘ Hesse died just before the women 's movement gained a broad impact on the art world and she considered herself one of the unusual ones , almost a freak , since there were so few women artists at all visible at that time ’ 5 |
| 22 | talking , all messing each other bits up , you had about six spread round your room for that time , and it was so good and we got through it so quick , there were so few mistakes because you only ever had six maximum kids in your room at once at that was only because Terry offered to put on a video an and |