Example sentences of "[noun] have been few " in BNC.
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| 1 | Letters from the States had been few and far between of late , although money from Sean still came from time to time . |
| 2 | Mandru had been away on business for much of the time since Lucien had arrived , so performances had been few . |
| 3 | Bodies massive enough to excavate maria have been few in number though such bodies need not have exceeded about 100 km in diameter . |
| 4 | In a strife-torn country where terrorist hijacking and hostage taking is a common occurrence , full-blown sieges have been few and far between . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | There is a danger in indulging in too great a diversity of material and outlook and , as biogeographers have been few in number , diversity could lead to the continuing omission of the study of the impact of human activity . |
| 7 | It was expected that case law would give rise to sufficient precedents to flesh out the relatively few guidelines available under UCTA , but in fact cases have been few and not very helpful . |