Example sentences of "[prep] [art] few [noun pl] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | Asthma is one of the few diseases on the increase in Britain said Simon Hughes , the party 's environment spokesman . |
| 32 | 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 ) . |
| 33 | They are one of the few reactors in the country which , if anything went wrong with the core in any way , could not be shut down . |
| 34 | In addition , while Tony Adams played well against Norway , Keown 's availability will be welcomed as he was one of the few successes in the European Champion-ships . |
| 35 | This seemed to explain one of the few advantages of the underground network to Preston — the fact that it was comparatively free of Rottweilers and pit bull terriers . |
| 36 | We are one of the few companies in the pet food industry not to have seen a decline in sales during this period as wholesalers and retailers reduce stocks to compensate for the high interest rates . |
| 37 | This disillusionment among the young must be worrying for the Iranian regime , which is one of the few countries in the world with a minimum voting age of only 15 . |
| 38 | South Africa is one of the few countries in the world where people drive on the left , so that most motorcars have a right-hand drive . |
| 39 | Ours is one of the few countries in the European Community that would meet those aspects of the stage 3 European monetary union standards . |
| 40 | Britain is currently one of the few countries in the world where so-called " gene food " is already on sale . |
| 41 | Zahedi was one of the few men in the court with his own standing . |
| 42 | The spatial complexity and dramatic lighting of the staircase at Windsor had been achieved by May on a smaller scale at the earlier Eltham Lodge , Kent , one of the quintessential Restoration houses , built in 1664 for Sir John Shaw , and one of the few buildings by the architect to survive . |
| 43 | Here , in splendid isolation , emerged a tribe of Polynesians who were prepared to address problems such as this , and who moreover were one of the few peoples in the world to develop a system of writing . |
| 44 | More recently General Wynell-Mayow , who is commemorated in the Church , was one of the few survivors of the heroic but futile charge of the six hundred at Balaclava . |
| 45 | ‘ It is one of the few hospices in the country to have all four services actually working from one centre . ’ |
| 46 | The West is one of the few places in the world where women still have to change their names upon getting married . |
| 47 | The sunken city on its north shore makes it one of the few places in the world where it is possible to go hard aground on a Byzantine mosaic . |
| 48 | It was their habit to take lunch several times a week at Dolly 's Chop House , by St. Paul 's Churchyard , one of the few places in the financial district that would allow a woman in . |
| 49 | It was one of the few references to the former prime minister 's gender that I heard during the whole week of leadership crise . |
| 50 | And there is passion as well as poetry in Sing as We Go ( 1934 ) , one of the few films of the 1930s to make any reference to unemployment . |
| 51 | Secretary John Deakin admits it 's one of the few drawbacks of the new set-up . |
| 52 | OPPOSITE ABOVE : Suttons Mill at Cranham , one of the few mills on the Painswick stream having no connection with the cloth trade . |
| 53 | Cuts in the public sector eat away at one of the few parts of the economy with a relatively even geographical distribution , especially local services ( Massey , 1984 ) . |
| 54 | … And I think you 've also got to have people who do bear in mind that they 're about one of the few parts of the authority that are in the forefront of the people and are basically representing the authority . |
| 55 | Gloucester 's strength is also reflected in the choice of knights of the shire for the county of Cornwall , one of the few elections to the planned parliament of Edward V for which returns survive . |
| 56 | Gloucester 's strength is also reflected in the choice of knights of the shire for the county of Cornwall , one of the few elections to the planned parliament of Edward V for which returns survive . |
| 57 | Moreover , because of the first-past-the-post electoral system and the predominantly two-party system , it has been one of the few parties of the left able to form a government on its own . |
| 58 | One of the few recommendations of the Monopolies and Mergers Commission report of 1989 into the supply of beer that was adopted by the government was to bring tenants under the protection of the Landlord and Tenant Act . |
| 59 | Indeed , one may imagine that in their private lives these same authors may well feel that the visit of the in-laws or attendance at some social function or a distant relative , two of the few reminders of the once overwhelming burden of personal social relations , are curbs upon their own ‘ freedom ’ . |
| 60 | Baynton managed Catherine 's retinue after her arrest and in 1543 was one of the few witnesses to the king 's sixth marriage . |