Example sentences of "[adv] few " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Oh right few minutes then . |
| 2 | A fall on Kitzbuehel 's notorious Steilhang two seasons ago ripped his stomach , intestines and rectum so badly few thought he would ever walk again . |
| 3 | It is a piece with few reasons to be a film , and mercifully few pretensions to cinematic status . |
| 4 | Presumably few people said ‘ No ’ to him , Well , Kelly reflected as she dialled the Templemans ' number angrily , there was a first time for everything . |
| 5 | One of the most striking features of IBM 's lamentable personal computer business is that there is not a single reason embedded in the hardware why IBM mainframe and AS/400 users should buy their personal computers from IBM rather than from its army of tormentors led by Compaq Computer Corp : presumably few customers have actually asked IBM for 3270 and 5250 emulation in ROM on the motherboard at no extra charge in its PS/2s — or perhaps IBM thought that would kill off its dumb tube business and resisted until it was too late — now it makes no money on personal computers and sells few dumb tubes . |
| 6 | For among the rather few objections by Pound that Eliot paid no attention to were one or two which would have required him to make consistent , in terms of locality and historical period , some of his references to London life . |
| 7 | But Libya presents rather few temptations of that kind . |
| 8 | In fact , genetical analysis of plant ‘ ecotypes ’ ( i.e. populations adapted to a particular habitat , for example growing close to the sea ) shows that sometimes rather few gene mutations can cause most of the morphological change . |
| 9 | This is because there are rather few ways in which an image of the incident light can be formed . |
| 10 | Because of the special circumstances of the Western Isles , we were able to find rather few useful comparisons with the rural development problems and approaches in other parts of the world . |
| 11 | Brackley itself produced rather few people who impressed themselves on the historical record . |
| 12 | The only way in which the discrimination between A and B can be enhanced is by some process that reduces the role of the c elements in producing generalization from A to B. It is not apparent that establishing associations between A and X and between B and Y will do this , even though X and Y themselves hold rather few ( z ) elements in common . |
| 13 | In fact the survey was only a limited success because rather few observers took part . |
| 14 | Rather few comparative data are available from which to assess recent status changes , but these appear to have been marked . |
| 15 | As with the previous species rather few reports are received annually . |
| 16 | This would restrict you to rather few banks these days . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Deseado is a smaller cape to its south , generally ignored except by sentimental mariners of whom there are , these days and in these waters , rather few . ) |
| 19 | Although perhaps rather few people rely on their relatives for regular financial support , many people go through times in their lives when such support is important to their capacity to establish or maintain a particular life style . |
| 20 | Rather few human activities seem to have their main point merely in themselves . |
| 21 | I was n't surprised that my mother was silent on this subject — she acknowledged the existence of rather few people . |
| 22 | These can be a useful standby , though they 're rather few and far between across the country . |
| 23 | It was an interesting if much too long meeting lasting from 2pm to about 6.15pm — but interesting in that , with rather few of us there , it was a chance to range over a whole lot of issues on and off the agenda , and a chance to appreciate the efforts , interests , aspirations and voluntary input of many others — though of course they get support from their activities from their employers . |
| 24 | The rather few fittings available are fairly expensive . |
| 25 | Random sampling , it can be argued , makes rather few concessions to the fact that human populations are not normally socially well-mixed : indeed , they tend to develop distinct homogeneity within subgroups . |
| 26 | In these games the monsters are rather few in number . |
| 27 | In a speech last night in Birmingham , he noted that , in the end , ‘ dissenting voices were remarkably few and remarkably quiet … |
| 28 | Despite the cramped conditions on the battle bus , and the often hairy flights through appalling weather in the Dan Air turbo prop affectionately dubbed Thunderpaddy One , remarkably few nerves were frayed . |
| 29 | It admits that remarkably few black students have passed through its school . |
| 30 | There are remarkably few active volcanoes in the centres of continents — none at all in South or North America , away from the Andean-Rockies mountain belt , none in central Asia , none in Australia , and only one away from the coast in Antarctica . |