Example sentences of "[adj] of the few [noun pl] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We sat on a tree that had been felled and ate some very tasty ham sandwiches -one of the few picnics I have ever been to . |
| 2 | But one of the few countries he has not designed for is his homeland Hungary . |
| 3 | ( One of the few times we missed out was with a 200lb sturgeon caught in the North Sea . |
| 4 | In fact , it was one of the few times I had seen him act in a civil way towards his stepmother . |
| 5 | One of the few times you will find big bream in waters which do not match up to the points I have mentioned is when they are the result of a recent stocking operation . |
| 6 | It was one of the few times he did n't get up and down from trouble , and that put us level . |
| 7 | He knew I worked with Malcolm because he was one of the few teachers I could have a conversation with about something more than homework or football . |
| 8 | British Telecommunications Plc said yesterday it plans to start selling satellite dishes and receivers by Christmas , making the move since it is one of the few activities it is allowed to pursue in the entertainment arena : ‘ We see it as a very important part of our wish to be part of the converging area of telephony , entertainment and computers , ’ the company told Reuter ; the company will reportedly source the equipment from two unidentified UK companies , in a move that is a significant threat to Amstrad Plc , whose shares fell tuppence to 31p . |
| 9 | She compromised with one of the few dresses she 'd brought with her — a simple navy cotton in a button-through style , with short sleeves , a deep square neck and a full skirt . |
| 10 | One of the few things we do n't know , though , are their slogans . |
| 11 | Well I would n't worry too much about cramming it all together tightly because it 's erm one of the few things we 've still got a budget for is photocopying student questionnaires so you m you know , you might as well take advantage of that , it does n't erm it does n't cost you anything and the actual difference it makes to the university and to erm world resources is very slight indeed I think |
| 12 | ONE OF the few things you can do more efficiently in an aircraft than anywhere else is get drunk . |
| 13 | ‘ The frets were one of the few things I actually bought for the guitar . |
| 14 | Er , one of the paradoxes of the modern era as er , pointed out by Tom Peters , not by me , one of the few things I do not claim original thought on , erm , is , is that it 's not that we , people think that we do n't have enough information at our fingertips and are constantly striving to gather more and more , the opposite is actually true . |
| 15 | While we 're on this question , one of the few things that er Theresa did n't say , although perhaps she might have said it when I was n't , I do n't think she did but one of the few things she did n't say is why Freud disapproved of the typical kind of dream book you find in any book shop . |
| 16 | ‘ Vicky adores the dog and she is one of the few things she is interested in . |
| 17 | One of the few things he could instantly recall from his own brief marriage was his wife 's grilling a kipper on a gridiron over the fire . |
| 18 | So that 's one of the few options you 've got at the moment . |
| 19 | For them this meeting may be one of the few contacts they have with the Church . |
| 20 | One of the few skills I possess is the ability to type with ten fingers . |
| 21 | And Keith is one of the few Englishmen I know who really likes Spencer , the rest dismiss him as representative of an imperial , conservative , rural English idyll . |
| 22 | Erm , so we are particularly pleased to have you here because we know as well that the G M B is in the forefront of erm establishing activity within Europe , one of , one of the few unions I think is that the only unions will have an office open in Brussels . |
| 23 | I say ‘ the wife ’ with impunity as Doreen is one of the few wives I know who actually calls herself that . |
| 24 | He knew that he was in the presence of one of the few men he might recognize as an equal , a kindred spirit . |
| 25 | AB : I would be a fool if I did n't say Schenker was one of the few analysts we can rate seriously . |
| 26 | ‘ He is one of the few teetotallers I know who can be entertaining after dinner . ’ |
| 27 | That is a fact , he wrote ( and Goldberg typed ) , one of the few facts I can swear to , though I find it impossible to explain . |
| 28 | One of the few occasions I ever saw him and the only one in which we sat face to face . |
| 29 | At 18 , Couples hooked his drive out of bounds , one of the few mistakes he made on a day that turned cold and windy by the time the five-hour 25-minute round had ended . |
| 30 | One of the few places we could go to on the camp at Binbrook without risk of being observed by the hierarchy was the Station cinema . |