Example sentences of "[am/are] few [noun] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THERE are few guarantees in politics but it is a more than reasonable bet that John Major and Bill Clinton will both be smiling and behaving as if they are buddies when they give a press conference at the White House tomorrow afternoon . |
| 2 | The approach suggests that organisations can be viewed as essentially the same and that there are few differences between organisations that can not be overcome by the application of general principles . |
| 3 | There are few north of Bramber and Hailsham . |
| 4 | Nevertheless , minimum cultivation methods are much more dependent upon agrochemicals , especially herbicides , so there are few benefits for wildlife . |
| 5 | There are few predators of bristleworms which can be safely introduced into a reef tank though doubtless a large crab or Triggerfish would devour them happily , but would also probably eat all your expensive corals as an appetiser . |
| 6 | There are few havens from storms , but the coastal scenery verges on the Wagnerian . |
| 7 | The most positive view comes from the United States : ‘ The fact that much is being done , and that there are few areas of stagnation , makes one believe that better and more fruitful days are ahead ’ . |
| 8 | There are few joys in life to compare with that of stepping on the scales and discovering that you weigh measurably less this week than you did last . |
| 9 | There are few examples outside Kent and none of those found in the upper Thames valley seem to have been buried as complete sets . |
| 10 | Most evaluations of health technologies are performed ex ante and there are few examples of situations where researchers have investigated whether the preferred option as indicated by their study has performed well in practice . |
| 11 | There are few arrangements for instruments on the commercial market , not least because different churches have different combinations of players available to them . |
| 12 | Whereas the Sage arm sells its products to Sovereign customers and there are few opportunities for expansion , he stated , YBF is a computer forms management business that services blue-chip customers , such as Midland Bank and Nissan . |
| 13 | In Canada , although there are few opportunities for training outside the big city , high standards of worship and music are still to be found in places . |
| 14 | There are few opportunities for youth to train in media skills . |
| 15 | There are few opportunities in school life for pupils to do this . |
| 16 | But there are few advocates for patients with anorexia nervosa and they carry the risk of being squeezed out by the increasingly technological emphasis of general medicine and the concentration of psychiatric services on the needs of chronic psychotic patients . |
| 17 | They are stingy when it comes to overheads : in most discount stores , there are few staff in sight and goods are sold out of the boxes they come in . |
| 18 | Curiously , most of the rules seem to have been conceived for print media : there are few pieces of TV and radio ‘ folklore ’ of this kind . |
| 19 | There are few economies of scale as such of the work is duplicated . |
| 20 | However , the Australian economy is still weak ; museums are very short of funds and there are few buyers for works over A$ 50,000 . |
| 21 | There are few parts of Prestel where you can get information of this quality for free and it is heartening to know that the service has been gradually tailored to users ' needs by the feedback AIS has received from the past year . |
| 22 | The authors quoted above , Brewer and Hills , stated that ‘ It is significant that there are few references to evaluation in the literature of reader instruction and until very recently they have been virtually non-existent ’ . |