Example sentences of "[noun] [coord] [num] [prep] [art] few " in BNC.
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| 1 | The reserve of Folkstumyren is on Dovrefjell and , as the name suggests , is a large mire or marsh and one of the few places in Norway where cranes breed . |
| 2 | Nineteenth-century specialist François Perreau-Saussine of Galerie du Carrousel has dropped in , together with Nicolas Joly from Galerie Yves Mikaeloff who is presenting ten pre-cubist and cubist drawings by Andre Mare alongside seventeenth- and eighteenth-century works , including an early La Hyre and one of the few Nicolas Mignards still to be found outside the Louvre . |
| 3 | The Israelis , fielding five international masters and two FIDE masters against Bayern 's six grandmasters , went down by the narrow margin of 7–5 after IM Leonid Zaid ( a recent arrival from the USSR and one of the few men alive with a plus score against Kasparov ) shocked the Germans by defeating Kindermann and Bischoff . |
| 4 | He was a trusted friend and one of the few people ever to have been in the Prince 's employ who spoke frankly to him , and when asked would give an honest , if sometimes unwelcome , opinion . |
| 5 | Having lived with it for 19 months , John Dyer , an unlikely champion of investors ' rights and one of the few ‘ fortunates ’ not hit hard by the collapse , was fulsome in his praise for BCIG 's supporters . |
| 6 | For the first time , an entirely independent body had uncovered a direct statistical link between Britain 's biggest nuclear power station and one of the few types of cancer which displayed a clear pathway back to radiation exposure . |
| 7 | For another , his is one of the largest sheep farms in the area and one of the few where the ewes are lambed outdoors . |
| 8 | Idomeneo , Mozart 's first mature opera , is a landmark in the history of opera and one of the few 18th-century opere serie to still have regular performances two centuries later ; it is also a taste of things to come . |
| 9 | I do n't care what you say , they really are marvellous creatures and one of the few animals in God 's world that do absolutely nothing but good . |
| 10 | Museum professionals are agreed , however , that it is the work of a North Italian master in the last quarter of the fifteenth century and one of the few major bronzes to have survived from this period . |