Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [art] few [noun pl] of " in BNC.

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1 He was dark-haired with a few strands of hair on his upper lip .
2 Answer the following questions , each with a few lines of explanation .
3 Modern brick and concrete duplexes squatted here and there along the road , each with a few rows of vines trained along wires suspended from concrete posts behind them .
4 All for a few inches of bloody zipper !
5 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 .
6 But such generalizations as these , while perhaps being applicable to a few individuals of each country , can reasonably be said to be prejudiced statements based on inadequate sampling .
7 Jacques was also fortunate in that within a few months of taking up his appointment , the government 's public expenditure restrictions imposed in the economic crisis of 1931 were relaxed in 1935- 36 with the restoration of progressive grants and the encouragement of new provision in adult education , outlined in the Board of Education 's Circular 1444 .
8 Shy young hairdressing assistants rapidly become bold and cheeky after a few months of work .
9 Few have gone through aerobatic training , and the modern tendency is to be happy with a few hours of stall avoidance training and little , if any , spinning .
10 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 .
11 Mr Smith , 53 , is one of the few members of Labour 's front-bench team with Cabinet experience .
12 She was one of the few members of the artistic community who admitted to religious observance .
13 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 .
14 Community theatre was one of the few forms of communication which managed to flourish under President Stroessner 's dictatorship in Paraguay .
15 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 .
16 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 .
17 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 .
18 The silver-haired Dubcek was one of the few figures of authority in Slovakia .
19 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 .
20 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
21 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 .
22 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 .
23 In one of the few studies of evacuation behaviour after a non-nuclear hazard event Liverman and Wilson ( 1981 ) give weight to this argument .
24 Furthermore , the housing benefit has removed one of the few rights of protest left to the poor tenant in terrible housing conditions — arrears .
25 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 .
26 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 .
27 For the men , work means construction or security — one of the few areas of economic expansion .
28 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 * ; .
29 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 .
30 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 .
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