Example sentences of "[been] few " in BNC.

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1 His name has been moderately conjured with by British academics , but there have been few attempts to systematize his work for the classroom , as has happened in the United States .
2 THERE have been few moments , if any , in the century-long history of Sheffield football rivalry when a goal by a Wednesday player has set United followers dancing with delight .
3 There had been few expectations that the Chancellor would announce a significant change of course , but disappointment that Mr Lawson said nothing new on monetary policy sent sterling 0.50 pfennigs lower to close at DM2.9562 .
4 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 .
5 THERE have been few hiding places for the French coach Jacques Fouroux since the embarrassment of defeat against Australia at Strasbourg .
6 For Essex there have been few such problems , and his batting has been , after Keith Fletcher 's captaincy , probably the chief reason for their successes .
7 There have been few set pieces .
8 However , historians and contra-cyclical investors may argue that there have been few five year periods since the Second World War when deposits have outperformed equities — and stock markets should revive over the next five years .
9 There have been few attempts to portray mental handicap in the theatre , and despite its progressive nature , the theatre has been slow to respond to the challenge on offer .
10 Films have generally been few on the ground , perhaps the most successful being Ira Wohl 's ‘ Best Boy ’ a documentary based on the life of his cousin , Philly , a 52 year old Down 's Person .
11 The overall conclusion is that while there is no shortage of regular comment and coverage of mental handicap in the mass media , there have been few attempts over recent years to explore the subject in any depth , and those that have , have focussed on the sensational and the controversial .
12 A levels have been the subject of considerable criticism over the years , but there have been few serious demands that they should be replaced .
13 In February 1973 , when I first decided to make the journey , there can have been few twenty-eight year olds who were less fit for the task .
14 Letters from the States had been few and far between of late , although money from Sean still came from time to time .
15 It is easy now to regard this wonder at an enemy 's humanity as naïve , but as it is the business of war to foster the naïveté on which it thrives , so there can have been few people in England during the isolation years of 1940–42 who did not take the impersonal nature of their enemy for granted .
16 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 .
17 As yet there have been few large-scale studies of technicians involved in scaling up genetic engineering processes .
18 But they had been few in number .
19 There have been few disagreements over major planning issues and there has been surprisingly little explicit community opposition to MDC — except from the Black community in Toxteth .
20 There can have been few more painful moments in Melvyn Bragg 's professional life than when he sat in the audience of a public performance where Barry Humphries , in the guise of Edna Everage , asked if anyone had read any of Bragg 's novels and nobody raised their hand .
21 There have been few studies of office automation applications , but projections about specific skill requirements are extremely difficult to make at present because it is as yet quite unclear how office automation will be used .
22 You may have made progress , you may have known times of happiness and fulfilment , but they have been few and far between .
23 The Catch 22 problem was that for several years there had been few big headlines about fusion as no dramatic breakthroughs had been occurring .
24 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 .
25 There have been few detailed studies of the technology of particular types of artefact , or products requiring tools in their manufacture .
26 One might imagine , perhaps wrongly , that there would have been few craftsmen who either alone or in a group would at any one time have been capable of producing such an item because of the variety of skills required in its production .
27 Although there have been few studies of public opinion and corporate crime ( Cullen et al. 1982 ; Newman 1957 ; Reed and Reed 1975 ; Rossi et al. 1974 ; Schrager and Short 1980 ; Sinden 1980 ; Wolfgang 1980 ) , they do provide a window on what can best be described as ‘ collective ignorance ’ .
28 There have been few studies looking at the sexual risk of HIV infection for women who have sex with women and so there are few reported cases of women infected in this way .
29 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 .
30 So widely dispersed was industrial activity that there can have been few parts of the country that did not support it in one form or another .
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