Example sentences of "have few " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a gentleman of sincerity Ally MacLeod , now enjoying his third spell as manager of Ayr United , has few equals in the world of football . |
| 2 | With the country now in recession and the drop in new car sales accelerating quickly , Lamont has few options . |
| 3 | Japan has few energy resources of its own and it has learnt to be frugal : energy prices are approximately twice those in Britain . |
| 4 | The Treasury has few options . |
| 5 | As for what it gets in return , Spain gets little farm money , as it has few rich farmers ( who get most from Europe 's upside-down farm policy ) and little research and development money , as it lacks high-class laboratories . |
| 6 | Although it has few pension funds , France will be especially suspicious of liberalisation . |
| 7 | When it comes to mobilising support , the left wing has few lessons to learn . |
| 8 | In contrast to these ideas about belief and unbelief , the position that I am advocating has few more eloquent supporters than Bishop Blougram in the poet Robert Browning 's ‘ Bishop Blougram 's Apology ’ : |
| 9 | Milan has few fountains for so Mediterranean a city and this one , the oldest , was itself only built in 1782 to a design by Piermarini . |
| 10 | The city centre has few residents left . |
| 11 | The park authority itself has few powers over agricultural change — control of the largest and a few other farm buildings but little else — and must operate by giving counter advice and offering compensation to the Farmer who proposes an action that is seen to be damaging . |
| 12 | You can put it into fast-breeder reactors — the US has few of these — or you can convert it into isotopes for medical uses . |
| 13 | Japan has few natural resources of its own , and any threat to those it does have is seen as a matter of life and death to the Japanese people . |
| 14 | This is usually referred to as the catastrophic version ; and today this has few , if any , adherents . |
| 15 | But whereas her father earned the respect of his people by staying in London throughout the Blitz , the Queen has few positive personal achievements to show for her four decades on the throne . |
| 16 | The shelter sees many dogs which have just been dumped on Dartmoor — a favourite spot for ‘ losing ’ pets , as the wilderness has few witnesses . |
| 17 | The city has few modern buildings in the central area which do not conform to the height or style of their surroundings . |
| 18 | The document has few harsh words , except perhaps for the folkies : their organisations , apparently , ca n't sing the same tune . |
| 19 | As a monument to extravagance of taste it has few equals in England , although it may not entirely justify the descriptions of a series of upended turnips stuck on boxes or St Paul 's pups which two irreverent contemporaries , William Cobbett and Dean Smith , bestowed on it . |
| 20 | She has few regrets , now that the truth is out . |
| 21 | Provided the rain falls , and the grass grows , the team has few worries . |
| 22 | Now in its 20th year , it has few black marks among its winners . |
| 23 | Niki is behind Johansson and he ca n't get past : Stefan 's Toleman is faster on the straights and the track has few other places for overtaking . |
| 24 | When it comes to racing etiquette and forthright language , Mario has few equals . |
| 25 | Rasbora daniconius has few devotees , often being dismissed as ‘ too ordinary ’ . |
| 26 | He may have the friendship of the Prime Minister , but he has few other Cabinet supporters . |
| 27 | No wonder Dolly Parton has few fans in Ulan Bator ! |
| 28 | INSURANCE giant General Accident has few grumbles over its £21 million loss in the first six months of the year . |
| 29 | The human information processing system generally has few problems with spoken or written language , even when the stimulus is noisy or ambiguous . |
| 30 | However , the skilled human reader has few problems reading text in many different fonts , including new ones , or with handwritten material , including un-familiar handwriting . |