Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] the few [noun pl] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1895 , when the ratemahatmaya of Katugampola Hatpattu in Kurunagala complained that Low Countrymen from Chilaw district were stealing cattle and removing them to their own district , the Low Country mudaliyar concerned replied that the charge was false , and that Kandyans were involved in the few cases of cattle stealing . |
| 2 | Anderson was one of the few members of the British colonial administration who , remaining in Africa after British colonialism retreated , made a successful transition to serving the independent governments of the continent . |
| 3 | Mr Smith , 53 , is one of the few members of Labour 's front-bench team with Cabinet experience . |
| 4 | She was one of the few members of the artistic community who admitted to religious observance . |
| 5 | In a country where the media is state controlled and acts as a mouthpiece for the Party , putting up posters was one of the few forms of communication and free expression . |
| 6 | Community theatre was one of the few forms of communication which managed to flourish under President Stroessner 's dictatorship in Paraguay . |
| 7 | As Tim Whittome of the Cairngorm Chairlift Company points out , skiing represents one of the few forms of sustainable development in these thinly-populated and sometimes remote areas . |
| 8 | Since 1988 , Ulrich Mueller has possessed the only art gallery in Klettenberg , one of the few sections of Cologne with Art Nouveau buildings undamaged during the war . |
| 9 | Imbalances in the ecology of the reefs has been put forward as a reason for these plagues caused by commercial fishing of the large predatory gastropod the triton ( Charonia tritonis ) one of the few predators of the Crown of Thorns . |
| 10 | The silver-haired Dubcek was one of the few figures of authority in Slovakia . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Never the less , it is the child speaking we do n't put the words into their mouths and as such when they speak and when they write it down , it 's one of the , possibly one of the few chances of having primary evidence of how the child is at er , writing er , on an official document |
| 13 | These were probably one of the few things of mine not due to be on show at the First Church of Christ the Spiritualist later this morning . |
| 14 | One of the few draw-backs of computer faxes is that they treat all faxes as bitmap files and gobble up memory at an alarming rate . |
| 15 | In one of the few studies of evacuation behaviour after a non-nuclear hazard event Liverman and Wilson ( 1981 ) give weight to this argument . |
| 16 | Furthermore , the housing benefit has removed one of the few rights of protest left to the poor tenant in terrible housing conditions — arrears . |
| 17 | At its best it remains one of the few areas of the modern press where imagination , honesty and idealism , however fatuous , can still , occasionally , be found . |
| 18 | Certainly it is one of the few areas of growth : between 1985 and 1990 the advertising spend in Britain grew 75 per cent , but the spend on direct mail grew 101 per cent . |
| 19 | For the men , work means construction or security — one of the few areas of economic expansion . |
| 20 | One of the few areas of common ground which both Keynes and Friedman occupy centres on the definition of a state of overall full employment : full employment prevails when the aggregate supply of labour , L s , equals the aggregate demand for labour , L d , at a unique , market clearing real wage rate , w * ; . |
| 21 | Shelford , with Iro , is one of the few players of undoubted world class the tourists presently possess , and his absence would seriously dent New Zealand 's Test hopes . |
| 22 | Nor had the sudden coolness between himself and Mrs J. Roscoe escaped most of the other tourists ; indeed , this development was proving one of the few topics of conversation as the coach accelerated along the dual carriageway towards Woodstock . |
| 23 | Which has its own story : Jagger 's lips , Hendrix 's cock , Bolan 's gin , Prince 's tongue , Morrissey 's nipple ( one of the few options of indecency left , to revel , to splay oneself-as-object , play thing ) . |
| 24 | However , even when the dinner was over , their ‘ guests ’ showed no sign of leaving , at which point the Emperor began to pull on the ends of his moustache — one of the few signs of irritation he ever allowed himself . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | One of the few signs of encouragement to emerge from the reported cases considered here is that some current employee inventors can not easily be ‘ bought off ’ by employers anxious to avoid compensation claims . |
| 27 | These Bible stories must be one of the few sources of information about dreaming made available during the course of our children 's education . |
| 28 | In a recent book , a German scholar , Konrad Dilger , mounts a sustained attack on the Kanunname as a document of the period of Mehmed II ; and , as the Kanunname is one of the few sources of information about the ulema in the early period , his remarks deserve serious attention in the present study . |
| 29 | ‘ It was one of the few bits of information we did manage to pick up on the grapevine . |
| 30 | In one of the few misjudgements of his brilliant career Cockroft said that he was ‘ 90 per cent certain ’ that thermonuclear fusion was occurring . |