Example sentences of "[prep] the few [noun pl] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the few things certain about the outlook is that 1993 will be a difficult year financially . |
| 2 | One of the few things predictable about future input technology is that it will include an optical scan element which will be at its best handling the output from IT related machines . |
| 3 | Nevertheless he is one of the few batsmen available to South Africa who has a proven record of being able to put big hundreds together and this is a prime requirement for Test match cricket . |
| 4 | His death in 1804 removed ‘ one of the few lives precious to mankind ’ , in the words of Thomas Jefferson , third president of the United States . |
| 5 | The Israelis , fielding five international masters and two FIDE masters against Bayern 's six grandmasters , went down by the narrow margin of 7–5 after IM Leonid Zaid ( a recent arrival from the USSR and one of the few men alive with a plus score against Kasparov ) shocked the Germans by defeating Kindermann and Bischoff . |
| 6 | President , congress in the few minutes available to me this afternoon to speak to my written report I want to touch on three issues . |
| 7 | Third , there was the severe deterioration of industrial relations in the few years prior to 1914 which brought with it violent strikes and syndicalism . |
| 8 | An estimate of numbers was impossible in the few seconds available at the pause , but on the return journey , about an hour later , something had awakened them and a most spectacular aerial display was in progress — the two species had reacted differently to whatever had disturbed their siesta — the lapwing wheeling erratically just above ground level , but the ‘ goldies ’ in ever-changing smoke-like clouds high above , performing quick-change evolutions reminiscent of starlings going to roost . |
| 9 | Unknown to many of the trapped men , but suspected by the more experienced , poisonous gases had started to gather in the few roadways available to them . |
| 10 | Perhaps what the authorities need to consider in the few months available to them is just when a decision needs to be made . |