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

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1 Feeding and nutrition of horses is one of the few areas where independent specialist advice is quite difficult to find even though feeding is one of the most important aspects of horse management .
2 Critics noticed that he was one of the few artists genuinely enthusiastic about new talent .
3 People who write about the stultifying effects of mass media , the bias of news reports , seem to derive their evidence mostly from industrialized countries where people have a greater trust in the accuracy of the few stations readily available .
4 I think that soaps and crime series are two of the few arenas where moral questions are debated .
5 And plants exploit the Thames in the few areas where tidal scouring is not too great : the LNHS has recorded wild and garden angelica ( Angelica sylvestris and A. archangetica ) and hemlock water dropwort ( Oenanthe crocata ) at Battersea .
6 Its success is almost invariably limited to the few cases where free advice enables a businessman to make immediate cost savings .
7 On the few occasions where constructed data is used as illustration ( of a paradigm , for example , in Chapter 4 ) , it is inevitably directed towards accounting for the range of formal options available to a speaker or writer .
8 Among the few topics consistently under-represented was Bilingualism and Multilingualism , and no evidence suggested that the languages and varieties of language of all ethnic groups were being built upon .
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