Example sentences of "[adj] [coord] [num] [prep] [art] few " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sotheby 's open the Impressionist season with Matisse 's ‘ Fatma , la mulatresse ’ painted in 1912 and one of the few pictures of this period likely to come on the market . |
| 2 | From these later inspections , the proportion of children with problems appears to have been low : for example , of four schools in Shepherds Bush , London , sending 670 children to Pontypridd in June 1940 , there were ‘ only one or two with a few nits ’ ; of 300 children being evacuated from Northwold Road Public Elementary School , in the East End , in June 1940 , only twenty-five were marked as needing special attention ( or 8% ) , comprising one with scabies , five with nits , eight with eneurisis ( bed-wetting ) and eleven with ‘ other conditions ’ ; of 1,211 children going from Stretford ( Manchester ) schools in the same month , only eighty suffered from vermin or nits , and only fourteen from eneurisis . |
| 3 | 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 ’ . |
| 4 | Crime is one of the fastest-growing and one of the few recession-proof industries . |
| 5 | When the idea of a Royal Commission was in circulation , lawyers within the ranks of the Government , notably Sam Silkin , the Attorney General and one of the few front-benchers on either side to have taken a close interest in penal reform , and Alex Lyon , a Minister of State at the Home Office , pressed for the opportunity to be grasped to make an authoritative assessment of the arguments for a public prosecution service independent of the police . |
| 6 | The meeting immediately elected Moore , an instinctive populist and one of the few member of the Cabinet with genuinely working class credentials , to lead the party and to attempt to restore those areas of traditional Labour support eroded by Rogernomics . |