Example sentences of "been few [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As yet there have been few large-scale studies of technicians involved in scaling up genetic engineering processes . |
| 2 | There have been few set pieces . |
| 3 | THERE have been few hiding places for the French coach Jacques Fouroux since the embarrassment of defeat against Australia at Strasbourg . |
| 4 | There have been few serious attempts to break away from this restrictive framework ; it is the absence of the application of any theoretical framework that has made such work so sterile , and it is doubtful whether evidence will be found for the social and economic developments during the period by studying art-styles , date and distribution alone , unless specific questions are formulated first . |
| 5 | A levels have been the subject of considerable criticism over the years , but there have been few serious demands that they should be replaced . |
| 6 | The office is one workplace where there have been few major changes — the ball-point pen and the photocopier hardly qualify as major — in half a century , since telephones took over . |
| 7 | Whether this redirection has yet had much effect in the classroom is another matter entirely from my own observations there seems as yet to have been few major changes in practice . |
| 8 | There may have been few spiritual insights in his system , but in his Principles of philosophy ( 1644 ) he did insist that bodies continue in existence only because God preserves them in being . |
| 9 | There has to date been no detailed investigation of the pronunciation of black native speakers of LE : in fact there have been few recent studies of LE pronunciation . |
| 10 | Much has been written about the pure theory of public choice but , in spite of a few pioneering works ( the best known being Downs , An Economic Theory of Democracy and Olson , The Logic of Collective Action ) there have been few recent applications in political science . |
| 11 | If the mark of a reborn evangelical is a devotion to the Epistles of St Paul and in particular to the doctrine of Justification by Faith , then there can have been few Christian converts less evangelical than Lewis . |
| 12 | There have been few detailed studies of the technology of particular types of artefact , or products requiring tools in their manufacture . |
| 13 | There have been few detailed research studies that have examined arrest rates of those living in the same areas or sentencing in both the magistrates ' courts and the Crown Court in one study . |
| 14 | There have been few previous studies of intestinal blood flow in Crohn 's disease . |
| 15 | The Catch 22 problem was that for several years there had been few big headlines about fusion as no dramatic breakthroughs had been occurring . |
| 16 | During the past year there have been few remarkable changes in the desktop publishing market but rather a definite shift of emphasis . |