Example sentences of "have been [adv] few " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most railways printed a range of tickets for servants entitled ‘ to privilege third class travel ’ , which had quite heavy usage , but servants in higher grades without ‘ All Stations ’ passes and entitled to First Class travel must have been very few . |
| 2 | After Cicero 's De Oratore , there appear to have been very few analyses of the language of humour , comedy and joking , until the twentieth century : at least , judging from Milner 's ( 1972 ) account , cited in Delia Chiaro 's bibliography . |
| 3 | They are believed to have been extremely few in number . |
| 4 | There seem to have been relatively few trading links with Attica , which is surprising , although a scatter of finds at Thorikos suggests that the Minoans may have been interested in the silver ores there ; if so , the island of Kea could have been used as a trading station for their transfer to Crete . |
| 5 | As a result there had been very few scientific studies which would make their case harder to win , he said . |
| 6 | If there had been very few cases , the crime would not have had much importance . |
| 7 | There had been very few patients . |
| 8 | It is important to be clear then about our reasons for feeling that we had to explain why women have come so far rather than explaining why there had been so few gains . |
| 9 | However , there have been rather few cases which have addressed at all directly the question of the legality of the use of nuclear weapons , and even fewer judgments touching on this . |
| 10 | But there have been surprisingly few mergers and acquisitions . |
| 11 | It must have been especially significant to those who had entered the D & AD direct mail section , in which silver pencils have been notoriously few . |
| 12 | Evaluation of the McClellan system is difficult because there have been so few opportunities to see it in operation . |
| 13 | Despite research into some aspects of the error propagation issue in spatial data processing ( e.g. Blakemore 1984 ; Chrisman 1984 ; Drummond 1987 ; Goodchild and Dubuc 1987 ; Walsh et al. 1987 ) , Burrough ( 1986:103 ) correctly points out that ‘ It is remarkable that there have been so few studies on the whole problem of residual variation and how errors arise , or are created and propagated in geographical information processing , and what the effects of these errors might be on the results of studies made . ’ |
| 14 | There have been so few reading problems in the whole hundred-and-odd pages that the story has been free to come to life , you can see it all , enjoy it all : ‘ Dear Miss Blyton , I think your stories are really exciting ! ’ |
| 15 | There have been relatively few books written by senior officers of ‘ the other side ’ , and this certainly provides a commentary that will interest historians of the 1939–1945 air war . |
| 16 | Non-German buyers have been relatively few . |
| 17 | There have been relatively few studies of modern cultural institutions outside the dominant fields of press and broadcasting , but on cinema see Mayer ( 1948 ) and on more recent approaches see Albrecht , Barnett and Griff ( 1970 ) . |
| 18 | In my own case , he wrote , and I can speak only for myself , in my own case and in my own life there have been very few genuine beginnings , only three or perhaps four . |
| 19 | There have been very few with the gift of Dante or John Milton , who have written at their best when being most Christian . |
| 20 | There have been very few cases where microorganisms have been used for in situ removal of chlorinated , or even petroleum compounds , and conventional biological processes are more commonly used . |
| 21 | So far there have been very few legal challenges to disciplinary action falling short of exclusion , apart from those concerning the use of corporal punishment which is now banned in the state sector . |
| 22 | To the best of my knowledge , for all the talk this question has engendered over the years , there have been very few attempts within the profession to formulate an official answer . |
| 23 | The use of the leap-frog appeal has been surrounded by considerable caution and the very stringent conditions to be met before such an appeal can be taken has meant that there have been very few such appeals . |
| 24 | Since 1980 there have been very few reports of work design applications or developments . |
| 25 | There have been very few attempts systematically to contrast their different properties . |
| 26 | In all my life there have been very few occasions when I badly wanted more money and that was one of them , because on my wage of three shillings a day as an AC2 I was unable to drape her with expensive clothes . |
| 27 | In the Cambrian area Red Star parcels are at a premium — there have been very few delivered around the Aberystwyth area by Roberts Taxis/coaches . |
| 28 | The British Cabinet has been the focal point of much general argument among students of politics , but there have been very few detailed case-studies produced which show how individual decisions were made at that level . |
| 29 | ‘ There have been very few among all my acquaintances among naturalists , ’ he said , ‘ who could appreciate a drawing if it were ever so well done ; and sometimes the better it was done , the less they liked it … ’ |
| 30 | There have been very few direct attempts to assess the significance of corporatism for the administrative branch of the state . |