Sentence examples for few mainland from inspiring English sources
Very few mainland Chinese visit Taiwan.
The process is unpredictable and can take weeks or even months, says Donna Kwok of HSBC, which is partly why so few mainland companies have borrowed offshore, despite the cheap rates on offer.China seems happier to allow capital to flow in the opposite direction.
"Many good mechanisms have been introduced to China, such as venture capital and stock options, which will help trigger the restructuring of industries throughout the country," says Wang Zhidong, chief executive of Sina.com, one of the few mainland Chinese Internet companies to list shares on Nasdaq so far.
These include Diapensia lapponnica, found only on the slopes of Sgurr an Utha, Argyll and Mountain Bearberry, recorded at only a few mainland locations, and on Skye and Orkney.
Banded populations of R. convicta have also been collected from a few mainland sites (Z.R. Hamilton unpublished), suggesting that the intensity of shell banding is too labile to be a reliable taxonomic trait.
This insertion was previously found in one sequence from Heligoland and was named as a distinct haplotype DEU_U47469.41 Holstein [ 16], although the same insertion was also found in a few mainland populations, i.e. it is not diagnostic for the Heligoland haplotype.
After Ma became one of the few mainland-born designers ever to be invited to show at Paris Fashion Week – still the ultimate destination for any designer – media coverage about her at home exploded.
Taiwanese electronics companies have poured billions of dollars into investments in the mainland, turning China into an electronics export powerhouse even though few mainland-based firms are successful in the business.
Twitter has far fewer mainland users than Weibo but nonetheless has emerged as a kind of virtual gathering place for the Chinese dissident community.
Ulster already has a large number of students from the Republic of Ireland but few from mainland Britain.
Charles Ng, the vice chairman of the Hong Kong Inbound Tour Operators Association, said Tuesday that only a few dozen mainland tour groups were scheduled to enter this Chinese territory for the rest of the week.
