Example sentences of "[prep] the few [noun] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Athelstan promptly refused , for the few mouthfuls of ale he had already drunk bit at his stomach . |
| 2 | For many mammals , the smell bond built up during the few hours after birth is crucial . |
| 3 | United Biscuits was one of the few fallers after confirmation that it had sold its Terry 's chocolate division to Kraft of the U.S. in a deal worth £220 million . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Community theatre was one of the few forms of communication which managed to flourish under President Stroessner 's dictatorship in Paraguay . |
| 7 | In one of the few studies of evacuation behaviour after a non-nuclear hazard event Liverman and Wilson ( 1981 ) give weight to this argument . |
| 8 | Furthermore , the housing benefit has removed one of the few rights of protest left to the poor tenant in terrible housing conditions — arrears . |
| 9 | Mr Smith , 53 , is one of the few members of Labour 's front-bench team with Cabinet experience . |
| 10 | Which has its own story : Jagger 's lips , Hendrix 's cock , Bolan 's gin , Prince 's tongue , Morrissey 's nipple ( one of the few options of indecency left , to revel , to splay oneself-as-object , play thing ) . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | One of the few works in colour is York 's very own Christ Stilleth the Tempest ( 1852 ) , while the rest of the show is a selection of some 104 out of 156 etchings and mezzotints . |
| 13 | These Bible stories must be one of the few sources of information about dreaming made available during the course of our children 's education . |
| 14 | In a recent book , a German scholar , Konrad Dilger , mounts a sustained attack on the Kanunname as a document of the period of Mehmed II ; and , as the Kanunname is one of the few sources of information about the ulema in the early period , his remarks deserve serious attention in the present study . |
| 15 | Latinos surged up to Hollywood Boulevard , one of the few breakthroughs from south of the Santa Monica Freeway , and trashed better-bred temples of consumption , such as Fredericks of Hollywood , the famous knicker store . |
| 16 | ‘ It was one of the few bits of information we did manage to pick up on the grapevine . |
| 17 | The silver-haired Dubcek was one of the few figures of authority in Slovakia . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | However , even when the dinner was over , their ‘ guests ’ showed no sign of leaving , at which point the Emperor began to pull on the ends of his moustache — one of the few signs of irritation he ever allowed himself . |
| 20 | This willingness to forgive past wrongs is one of the few signs of hope for this benighted province ; but it is not enough to bring peace . |
| 21 | One of the few signs of encouragement to emerge from the reported cases considered here is that some current employee inventors can not easily be ‘ bought off ’ by employers anxious to avoid compensation claims . |
| 22 | One of the few differences between beat policing and assembly-line work was that it contained a measure of unpredictability . |
| 23 | Machine-tools are one of the few industries in east Germany that come close to matching world standards , and Niles Werkzeugmaschinen , based in the district of Weissensee , was the core enterprise of the defunct 7 Oktober engineering combine . |
| 24 | There have been some new houses built in the last few years , but Ottringham is one of the few villages in Holderness which has not seen large housing developments taking place . |
| 25 | Nowadays , struggling on in the name of Islamic socialism , Algeria is a place of austerity , one of the few countries on earth where you ca n't get Coca-Cola . |
| 26 | By a conservative appraisal of the few data at hand , she was an engineering success . |
| 27 | ON ONE of the few days with sunshine recently I was shambling through Cavendish Square in the West End of London . |
| 28 | Learning of this affront to the Christmas Spirit from the Washington Post , the First Lady rallied her forces , put some bills into her handbag , summoned the Secret Service and sallied forth to Mazza Galleries , one of the few places in town which still allows the Sally Army to function . |
| 29 | The size of the taps throughout the house is one of the few exceptions to scale , as an exact one twelfth in the plumbing system would have been too small for water to run through the pipes . |
| 30 | Many existing systems which do n't already heat the hot water can be adapted to do so , but if yours ca n't ( an early warm air system , say ) or if you 're installing one of the few types of system that does n't also heat the hot water ( such as electric storage radiators ) , you will have to choose the hot water system . |