Example sentences of "[prep] [art] few [noun pl] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even within these areas , there is smaller-scale , shorter-distance commuting for the few jobs in the larger villages and the smaller towns . |
| 2 | AFTER a few minutes in the company of Joe Boyd , I was wondering whether there was anybody in world music he had not heard of . |
| 3 | After a few minutes in the kitchen , the lady placed before me a plate of home-made scones , a dish of jam and a large pot of tea , all delicious . |
| 4 | Similar criteria have often applied to the education officer who , after a few years in the classroom . |
| 5 | Hugh began as a chargehand in the Teasing Department , where he returned to become foreman after a few years in the Dyed Wool Blending Department . |
| 6 | ‘ After a few days in the gym here I would wake up and hope that the sparring partners would not turn up . |
| 7 | ‘ After a few days in the gym here I would wake up and hope that the sparring partners would not turn up . |
| 8 | After a few days in the cave , he entered the farmhouse , saying that his end was close . |
| 9 | We all know that we feel better after a few days in the mountains but why is this ? |
| 10 | After a few days in the nest , however , the chicks will peck more at the herring gull model ( Figure 3.4 ) . |
| 11 | These appear to die off after a few weeks in the water , but this is not actually the case . |
| 12 | One of the few agencies in the survey to use discount schemes that include the acceptance of low deposits and the offer of free travel insurance . |
| 13 | One of the few certainties in the European debate is physical geography which decrees a peripheral position for Scotland in the new Europe . |
| 14 | ( The General Register Office in Edinburgh has been aware of the few errors in the Scottish data ) . |
| 15 | Indeed , this was one of the few areas in the early 1980s to be aware of the significance of these centres for early intervention in psychiatric illness , aimed at countering the drift of clients into inpatient facilities and dependency . |
| 16 | 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 ) . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Ours is one of the few countries in the European Community that would meet those aspects of the stage 3 European monetary union standards . |
| 23 | Britain is currently one of the few countries in the world where so-called " gene food " is already on sale . |
| 24 | Zahedi was one of the few men in the court with his own standing . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | ‘ It is one of the few hospices in the country to have all four services actually working from one centre . ’ |
| 27 | The West is one of the few places in the world where women still have to change their names upon getting married . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Festivals are one of the few opportunities in the UK for screening short films , and we will be presenting not just this year 's BFI New Directors shorts , but also programmes of short films from film schools in the UK and Canada , from the Arts Council funded schemes and films funded by the filmmakers themselves . |