Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [art] few [noun pl] that " in BNC.
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| 31 | POLLING stations 83 and 84 for the village of Hath Qila lie down a dusty track that must be one of the few roads that has not been metalled in the five years that Mr Rajiv Gandhi has been cosseting his home constituency of Amethi . |
| 32 | ‘ They are one of the few teams that have come here and attacked us and they did a good job , ’ he said . |
| 33 | The Elderflower juice is part of the booming market in adult soft drinks — it 's one of the few businesses that 's beaten the recession . |
| 34 | German measles ( rubella ) is one of the few viruses that can infect the baby in the first 12 weeks . |
| 35 | When young , it is one of the few wines that makes a good partner for salads . |
| 36 | An uneven geographical distribution is also characteristic of tourism , one of the few industries that does tend to be found in the remoter rural areas ( see chapter 9 below ) . |
| 37 | Leisure is one of the few industries that is growing . |
| 38 | He was called out by an offended patriot of the town , but killed his opponent in the consequent duel , one of the few duels that can ever have been fought for the sake of a marginal note in a book . |
| 39 | One of the few lichens that are spreading is Parmeliopsis ambigua , known to lichenologists as the ‘ yellow peril ’ . |
| 40 | It is one of the few features that can be identified on Earth-based drawings of Mercury . |
| 41 | So that I think has been the biggest , communication-wise , has been the biggest step forward in a more erm friendly and er happier sort of note we , we were one of the few brigades that started a band . |
| 42 | Spreadsheeting is one of the few applications that you can do with an old , low cost XT machine . |
| 43 | One of the few occasions that United Biscuits ever took a hasty decision was when it bought a company in Spain at a time when it felt under pressure to expand into Europe . |
| 44 | Whilst many base analogues ( 1 ) have been developed to investigate interactions in the major groove of the DNA helix 2'-deoxy-3-deazaadenosine ( d 3C A , Figure 1 ) is one of the few nucleosides that is useful in probing for sequence-specific interactions in the minor groove . |
| 45 | This would seem to be one of the few events that had any lasting emotional effect on him . |
| 46 | This is one of the few indications that Eliot gave of the fact that , in the periods between illness when he carried on with his ordinary duties in London ( as much as anyone 's life was " ordinary " then ) , he experienced the horror of the German raids : the nightly bombings , the streets blocked with rubble , the glow in the evening as fires burned throughout the city , and the peculiarly dank smell of ruined buildings : it was this which provoked fear , precluded concentration on other things , and destroyed the will to work . |
| 47 | Britain is one of the few democracies that still does n't have a freedom of information act . |
| 48 | It will be one of the few practices that will be able to turn round and tell the FPC that it has got it wrong , claims its senior partner . |
| 49 | Better access to trade training courses : One of the few ways that prisoners can feel that some positive benefit has been gained from a sentence . |
| 50 | One or two of the few houses that make up the hamlet of San Sano were acquired and transformed by the owner with great mastery into the attractive Hotel Residence San Sano , Signor Matarazzo 's taste runs to what could be called a ‘ glorification of simplicity ’ . |