Example sentences of "[adv] few [noun] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For among the rather few objections by Pound that Eliot paid no attention to were one or two which would have required him to make consistent , in terms of locality and historical period , some of his references to London life . |
| 2 | In fact , remarkably few birds of prey survive their first winter in the wild , but once they have done so life seems to be a bit easier for them . |
| 3 | The attention of the news media was firmly focused on the Falklands , and so few accounts of disturbances in British cities were reported . |
| 4 | ‘ It helps to be a woman and I can exploit that when it suits because there are so few women in Parliament and it concerns a lot of people . |
| 5 | Explaining why she thought there were so few women in science , she said : |
| 6 | Why are there so few collectors of art in the United Kingdom ? |
| 7 | As the positive part of conventionalism shrinks in practical importance in court , because there are so few occasions for judges to rely on law as conventionalism construes this , so this particular defense of the negative part becomes weaker , for the exceptions steadily eat up the rule . |
| 8 | One might hardly suspect that so simple a task for so few seconds of film could prove so practically trying and , on reflection , so symbolic of our whole chain of adventures , attempting to keep aloft and alive a consecutive string of luminous mirrors against rather ridiculous odds . |
| 9 | ‘ The country is at the moment run by the Conservatives and they have so few votes in Scotland it should bring to their attention that there 's something not quite right in this situation . |
| 10 | The Cambridge Board also had its own resident tutor in the county even thus few opportunities for development were missed in the county even though thy LEAs support was limited to specific grant-aid for classes and courses provided by the district and the Cambridge Board . |
| 11 | There were notably few clashes over elections in the south-west . |
| 12 | Asserting , what was palpably untrue , that ‘ There are probably few people in India who do not sincerely regret that you should have made it impossible for any government to leave you at liberty ’ , he handed down a sentence of six years ' simple imprisonment , pointing out — the crowning touch-that the sentence was the same as that given to the nationalist hero Bal Gangadhar Tilak , twelve years before . |
| 13 | There are comparatively few doctors of medicine , barristers , solicitors , or clerks in holy orders . |
| 14 | Nor were the comparatively few letters of Walter Machin himself much more revealing . |
| 15 | Although he spent a comparatively few number of years as a painter , it is for his paintings that his name is known worldwide . |
| 16 | Yet when they started out few people in Britain had ever heard of them and even now not much is known about their ideas on marketing and how they put them into effect . |
| 17 | Until now few agreements between artists and their dealers were written down , but the decision by Sonnabend gallery to sue artist Peter Halley for breach of contract and damages may change all this . |
| 18 | Despite that , surprisingly few complaints about discrimination are made to industrial tribunals each year . |
| 19 | There are surprisingly few recordings from Europe or America to suggest that this important issue has been raised and discussed . |
| 20 | Well few rounds of bread . |
| 21 | I begin here , therefore , with a discussion of the relatively few reports of attempts to replicate and extend his findings . |
| 22 | There were relatively few reports of irregularities : a Moscow journalist , in an experiment , found he was allowed to vote ten times in five different constituencies ; and in one of the Moscow districts there were 346 more votes cast than ballot papers that had been distributed . |
| 23 | Nevertheless , it seems clear that there are relatively few ranges of values for the numbers that would allow the development of any form of intelligent life . |
| 24 | As M. W. Eysenck ( 1982 ) points out , unless studies collect data over a large range of different arousal levels , there are relatively few patterns of results which are actually inconsistent with an inverted-U relationship . |
| 25 | ‘ In North Yorkshire we are fortunate in having relatively few problems over school vandalism , although most schools encounter the occasional difficulty , ’ he said . |
| 26 | This was impressive since there were relatively few cars in Cairo in 1909 and the police force itself did not boast one . |
| 27 | On April 22 Rauf Denktash obtained 67.5 per cent of the vote to be re-elected President of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus ( TRNC , recognised only by Turkey ) , with relatively few voting for candidates of opposition parties which wanted to offer more concessions to the Greek Cypriots . |
| 28 | Companies , generally speaking , tend to produce relatively few kinds of waste — mainly paper , say , or mainly metal scrap — which makes recycling easier . |
| 29 | We are ( sadly ) used to antagonism from some anglers and landowners but when a leading conservation officer says ( as has been reported ) that the World Wild Fund for Nature 's contribution of around £40,000 would be well worth while if boats were kept off one mile of water , it is hard to swallow , especially when you bear in mind the relatively few miles of water which are available to use even with the protection of the Rights of Way Act ! |
| 30 | At present , with relatively few computers in schools this will be a problem , but hopefully in the future there will be plenty of computer time available . |