Example sentences of "[noun] [is] one [prep] [art] few " in BNC.
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| 1 | South Korea 's reafforestation and erosion control programme is one of the few that has enjoyed considerable success . |
| 2 | Organised crime is one of the few economic activities in Russia that is growing . |
| 3 | Ken is one of the few people who can stun me into being ungrammatical . |
| 4 | Headline is one of the few companies that has lost no staff during the recession — in fact it has taken more on . |
| 5 | Mexico is one of the few countries that still allow fishermen to encircle and snare dolphins to catch the tuna that swim with them . |
| 6 | WALTER SMITH will take his injury-ravaged squad out to lunch today aware that , in the present , stricken climate at Ibrox , food poisoning is one of the few afflictions not to have hit his players before their European Champions League tie with FC Brugge on Wednesday , writes Hugh Keevins . |
| 7 | Ted Deerhurst is one of the few Englishmen to have attempted big Waimea . |
| 8 | Falmouth is one of the few estuaries in England where the tides do n't interfere too much , so realistic training for Mediterranean conditions is possible . |
| 9 | This willingness to forgive past wrongs is one of the few signs of hope for this benighted province ; but it is not enough to bring peace . |
| 10 | Stud land Heath is one of the few localities where this rare and elusive bird builds its nest — in heather or gorse . |
| 11 | That decentralized state structures serve to reduce the scope of welfare state expansion and socialist incumbency is one of the few findings in the comparative public policy literature on which there is near unanimity ( Castles , 1985 , p. 120 ) . |
| 12 | England is one of the few countries in which the legal tradition provides a test which can distinguish between the natural and the unnatural , the civilised and the barbarous . |
| 13 | The alder is one of the few tree species to fix nitrogen on a significant scale ; one theory is that atmospheric and water enrichment with nitrogen is upsetting the delicate relationship between the trees and soil micro-organisms . |
| 14 | In Carmina Gadelica ( 1900 ) , Alexander Carmichael notes that ‘ St John 's wort is one of the few plants still cherished by the people to ward away second-sight , enchantment , witchcraft , evil eye , and death , and to ensure peace and plenty in the house , increase and prosperity in the field , and growth and fruition in the field ’ . |
| 15 | There is no shortage of adaptive explanations for size increase , but Darwin is one of the few to have pointed out that large organisms such as mastodonts and dinosaurs would have been more vulnerable to extinction because of the limitations of food resources . |
| 16 | HIGHER taxes on multinational companies is one of the few revenue-raisers an electioneering politician can propose without instantly becoming an also-ran . |
| 17 | Mr Keane is one of the few Ireland players to have won over 50 caps . |
| 18 | D. J. Wrench is one of the few to have considered in any detail what happened after the National Government was formed . |
| 19 | Mr Devaty is one of the few dissidents who do not come from a Prague-based intellectual background . |
| 20 | Gemma is one of the few prosperous people I know in London , other than myself . |
| 21 | Brian Sewell is one of the few who still ca n't find it and we 're very glad he ca n't . |
| 22 | It is perhaps ironic that this tablet is one of the few on the market which can be interfaced with the Dragon computer as the company which makes it is the remnants of the firm which designed and built the Dragon . |
| 23 | LEFT : The chimney of Holcombe Mill is one of the few survivors of its kind . |
| 24 | It is fair to say that the British obscenity test is one of the few in the world which attempts to focus specifically on the ‘ protection of health or morals . |
| 25 | Treasury 8.75% 1997 at £97 1/8 to yield 9.48% to redemption is one of the few medium dated gilts still below par . |
| 26 | Retirement is one of the few moments which a politician can choose with deliberation and Baldwin had been preparing for it for months , if not for years . |
| 27 | There have been some new houses built in the last few years , but Ottringham is one of the few villages in Holderness which has not seen large housing developments taking place . |
| 28 | WSWIN is one of the few Windows based word processors that does n't have a page preview facility — and it does n't need it . |
| 29 | Asthma is one of the few diseases on the increase in Britain said Simon Hughes , the party 's environment spokesman . |
| 30 | The wrenching cry at the start of the Finale claps a vice on the emotions that is sustained through to the ambivalent release provided by the Epilogue , and Barbirolli is one of the few conductors to prolong the agony of the climax by observing VW 's protracted emphasis on the grinding trombone and tube underpinning . |