Example sentences of "few [noun] [noun] have [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Taming the droplet But so far , few agrochemical companies have registered formulations suitable for ULV . |
| 2 | After New Hampshire , however , Frohnmayer had to go , and despite all the publicity surrounding his departure , it is remarkable how few arts advocates have protested , and how many have seemed to heave a quiet sigh of relief . |
| 3 | In a few words Travis had blocked her line of retreat . |
| 4 | The directing principle of this work is that over the past few centuries sexuality has assumed major symbolic importance as a target of social intervention and organisation , to a degree that differentiates this period from those preceding it . |
| 5 | Mr Keane is one of the few Ireland players to have won over 50 caps . |
| 6 | Over the past few decades researchers have shown that chimps can create artworks ( abstract thought ) , use tools in a quite sophisticated fashion , and understand the concept of language : humans and chimps can use sign languages like Ameslan to communicate with each other to a reasonably advanced level . |
| 7 | Yet few audit firms have chosen to protect themselves by becoming limited companies , an option that has been open to them since October last year . |
| 8 | In the course of a few years Hider had managed to undo a thousand-year-long German expansion eastwards . |
| 9 | In the past few years interferometers have displaced scanning spectrophotometers in many applications . |
| 10 | But in just a few years computers have made many specialised tasks obsolete , enabling one person not only to do the work of many , but to do many different jobs at once . |
| 11 | But in the last few years feminists have begun to organise together as architects , housing workers , builders , designers etc , to question seriously assumptions around housing policy and structure ; assumptions held not only by politicians , housing officials and housing workers , but also by socialist housing activists . |
| 12 | Within a few years Raffles had realised his dream . |
| 13 | It is true to say , however , that since the business has become mature , the period of readjustment has been extremely painful and very few fibre companies have made much money over the last decade . |
| 14 | However in the past few days Hanley has come through a series of rigorous tests , and his return was hastened by the absence of Andy Goodway , who broke a finger at Headingley last Saturday . |
| 15 | During the past few days anxiety had shadowed his eyes like bruises ; they were brighter now and eager in their attention to the door through which his wife must soon enter . |
| 16 | Ryan had come along just a few weeks after they took the braces off her teeth and the tits started to look like something ; in those few weeks Jo had had more attention from boys than she could handle . |
| 17 | And when I got back for the last few weeks Mortimer had left … ’ |
| 18 | In the last few weeks UI has lost Yumio Imamura , general manager of Asia Pacific in Tokyo , Roger Fraumann , director of Australia/New Zealand in Sydney , Lane Weggeland , vice president of business operations , Tony D'Annunzio , vice president of technology , Jack Bissel , technical projects manager , Steve Payne , director of communications , Dave Whitson , marketing manager , Andy Freeman , recruiting , Rhoda Ames , executive assistant and Diane Varga , product sales . |
| 19 | A friend of mine Dave who wrote half the album with me and produced the album has been on at me for five years , come on let's make an album , let's make an album , let's make an album , making a , let's make an album er and a few record companies have come on and they 've always wanted me to do an album like maybe , let's prepackage old sixties ' songs and revise them , or let's do love themes from T V shows and which would never have interested me , so I said to Dave , you know when a record company comes with an offer to make an album , to do the album I wan na do then we 'll do one . |
| 20 | Culley was still ordering the information she 'd given him , and the few things Helen had said on the phone . |
| 21 | Coda Inc currently has seven offices in the US , and saw sales increase 49% to $10.6m , which , Turner reckons , makes it one of the few UK companies to have succeeded in such a notoriously dangerous market . |
| 22 | Interviewees reported that a few service users had refused to allow their names to be placed on a mental health database . |
| 23 | One of the very few art historians to have moved away from the unique art object to consider more mundane phenomena is Gombrich , whose book , The Sense of Order ( 1979 ) attempts to make generalizations about the nature of design , as opposed to art . |
| 24 | Few concept cars have proved as significant and trend-setting as Pininfarina 's Dino Berlinetta Speciale , introduced to universal acclaim at the 1965 Paris motor show . |
| 25 | ‘ I 'm so glad , ’ Leith replied , knowing from the very few comments Rosemary had let drop that she must have gone through a most unhappy time before Derek had finally left . |
| 26 | Reinhardt at once invited him to join his Viennese theatre company , and within a few seasons Henreid had become one of its leading players . |
| 27 | After a few drinks Shildon had mentioned the work he was doing for Eliot . |
| 28 | A few Toraja children had arrived to tend to those remains of their forebears which were not in darkness . |
| 29 | On a few occasions Frankie had found the courage to scale the perimeter wall to look for rats in the mouth of the tunnel . |
| 30 | Only a few family farmers have had the opportunity , or the resources , to expand the size of the farm . |