Example sentences of "few but " in BNC.
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| 1 | Arsenal 's breaks were few but always threatening and Oldham , after a first flurry , found openings increasingly elusive . |
| 2 | Because the nets are usually deployed many hundreds or even thousands of kilometres from shore , few but their crews have ever witnessed the damage inflicted on the marine ecosystem by the drift-net vessels . |
| 3 | Unlike the Church of England , Nonconformity suffered not from too few but from too many candidates . |
| 4 | ‘ We are aiming not at the elaboration of a few but at the erection of many temples or houses of our Lord ’ and therefore ‘ cheapness in the construction of each is indispensable to success ’ and Gothic chapels need not be expensive . |
| 5 | Now there are just a few but they are large modern deep-sea trawlers , with more comfortable quarters — and some can freeze the fish at sea off Iceland , Canada or Norway . |
| 6 | Pauca sed matura ’ , ( few but ripe ) , which had been Gauss 's motto , became Smith 's also . |
| 7 | Potential buyers are few but real enough . |
| 8 | Barbara , whose previous experiences in that line had been few but enjoyable , remembered with guilty nostalgia the handful of nights she had spent with the managing director at the Royal Albion in Brighton . |
| 9 | This satisfied few but left the way open for the Bolsheviks who soon controlled the army and all communications and transport in Petrograd . |
| 10 | One of the few but important things Preston and William had in common as children was the dominant role of women in their lives . |
| 11 | Even though mammals lavish such care and attention on their young , they still have the same two options open to insects and fish , crabs and reptiles — whether to concentrate their energies on producing as many young as possible and then let them fend for themselves , or whether to restrict the numbers to very few but look after them carefully . |
| 12 | Compromises with his few but firmly held prejudices were only made when to hold out meant risking something irreplaceable . |
| 13 | The older man smiled widely , showing off his few but sound teeth . |
| 14 | You get a few but not our bit , it 's actually more at the picking now where all the young ones are . |
| 15 | Of the attempts to provide writers with a PC-based style analyser , standard commercial channels proffer a few but their cost may be considered inordinate for such a duty and so one looks to shareware offerings because they are frequently better buys . |
| 16 | The idea of fighting against men of their own race was hateful to them , says the Chronicle C text under 1052 , because there were few but Englishmen on each side . |
| 17 | The disadvantages of friendship are very few but they do exist . |
| 18 | Er , yeah a few but not too many . |
| 19 | oh , well I erm , I did do a few but I 've used most of mine up I think , I can look in the freezer to see if there 's any there , but I do n't think there is |
| 20 | A few but not as many as he 's got , not as many as he 's got |
| 21 | Windsor Davies has appeared in a few but he 's er not one of the regular ones . |