Example sentences of "by few " in BNC.
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| 1 | The coach trip back to the Academy is remembered by few , as the dirty and damp officer cadets catch up on much lost sleep . |
| 2 | In the notion of sameness there are ambiguities and ambivalences only dimly noticed by few people at the time . |
| 3 | Allon advocated the use of chanting but this was taken up by few chapels ; the much greater growth lay in the use of hymns . |
| 4 | The street of the storytellers in Peshawar , Pakistan ; a desert island in the Indian Ocean , the magnificent Iguazu Falls in Argentina , the Potala in Tibet and the gigantic statues of Easter Island had , until recently , been seen by few people other than the local population , explorers , archaeologists or anthropologists , yet they are all included in the pages of current travel brochures . |
| 5 | The earthquake differed from most intraplate earthquakes of this size , however , in being followed by few after-shocks , in contrast to the magnitude 5.4 earthquake on the Lleyn Peninsula in 1984 . |
| 6 | Perhaps monotony , fragmentation and excessive pace are noted by few housewives and are not bound up with a dominant feeling of dissatisfaction . |
| 7 | Writing and directing films are skills acquired over time , time invested by few of these artists and dealers . |
| 8 | Recognized by few states apart from Japan , Germany and Italy , it was a colony in all but name , with real power exercised by Japanese administrators ultimately responsible to the commander of the Guandong Army . |
| 9 | Against this , J.H. Gagnon and William Simon have argued in their book Sexual Conduct that sexuality is subject to ‘ socio-cultural moulding to a degree surpassed by few other forms of human behaviour ’ , and in so arguing they are building both on a century of sex research and on a century of questioning the notion of ‘ natural man ’ . |
| 10 | Ralph Berger and Ian Oswald established that the REM sleep periods characterized by few and small eye movements were accompanied by experiences of what they called " passive " dreaming , with few events reported that the subject could have been scanning . |
| 11 | Long was supported by the bulk of the English county members but by few of the party 's men of talent . |
| 12 | This was the pure gospel of Joseph Chamberlain , especially real to Law because of his Canadian connections , but the real significance of the decision was felt by few in Britain , even on the Unionist side . |
| 13 | Three patterns of distributions of authorship number are suggested by these my data : ( a ) the ‘ left shifted ’ pattern seen in high profile basic research journals ( Nature , Cell ) , in which over 90% of articles have one to five authors ( mode 2 ) ; ( b ) the ‘ right shifted ’ pattern characterised by few small group studies and many large group studies ( mode 7 ) seen in low profile basic research ( BBRC ) and clinical research ( JCO ) journals ; and ( c ) a rapid fall from six to seven authors ( mode 6 ) in general medical journals ( NEJM , Lancet ) . |
| 14 | Offered by few lenders |
| 15 | But to a remarkable extent Kilvert succeeded in turning its limitations — its narrow range of vision and the naïvety of his own judgements — into advantages , to give it a vividness and a simplicity shared by few similar journals ; and it seems likely that it will retain its place as at once a major document of Victorian rural life and a minor but moving work of literature . |
| 16 | Van in those days was remote from Constantinople and had been visited by few Europeans . |
| 17 | He did n't like the microphone and had to be cajoled into using it , he stalked up and down the front of the hall quoting from cuttings on the Vietnam War , and was heard by few . |
| 18 | To set too high a standard tends to discourage a student unduly ; too lenient a standard , particularly if accompanied by few comments , may give a student a false idea of his/her examination prospects . |
| 19 | Or like Mary Shelley 's reputation , cherished by few , but always there , diversifying . |
| 20 | Much loved by few , hated by so many , it thrived during the happy days of large plant builds at Capenhurst . |
| 21 | The validity of these tests , however , has been assessed by few and unconfirmed studies , in patients who were not taking NSAID , and direct comparison between them has been lacking . |
| 22 | In ( 60 ) , a negative idea is expressed by few meaning " not many " . |
| 23 | This expertise , which can be matched by few other companies , is also available to associated brewing companies and other clients . |
| 24 | He said that the message that " environment means business " had only been understood by few companies , and that small and medium-sized ones in particular had been slow to recognize the opportunities . |
| 25 | Why then have the Cambrian Forces been invited to inveigle such hollowed ground ; to sit idly by and scoff while such is imposed by few on the many . |