Example sentences of "only the few " in BNC.
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| 1 | The New Republic controversy is about prohibition : of the use of drugs which , though extended to all , essentially affect only the few ; and now an attempted prohibition of the very discussion of the issues involved . |
| 2 | Only the few three-year-old trout in the river and the salmon disappeared temporarily — but were back again within three months . |
| 3 | I am left to live out my life with only the few possessions I have managed to buy from my pension , because of Gary . |
| 4 | The peasantry and the labourers had no voice at all , and only the few remaining Polish gentry had any representation in the upper house of the electoral college . |
| 5 | We 'd been filled with school milk and cod-liver oil and orange juice , but only the few scheme-housing children had bathrooms . |
| 6 | Again , though , it is the acquisition of stratified techniques in which , at the highest level , only the few are competent . |
| 7 | Only the few recognize this moment . |
| 8 | He had spoken in so low a tone that only the few near to them had heard him . |
| 9 | Up to now I have heard only the few reluctant words in the lane . |