Example sentences of "[prep] the few [noun pl] [conj] are " in BNC.

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1 These days they appear infrequently , but the prospect of a shopping expedition is one of the few things that are guaranteed to bring them out .
2 The Dolphin , the Bermuda Suite , Club 93 , the Bingo hall , a large swimming pool , a Sports hall , Amusements , these are just some of the few things that are situated at Highfield Holiday Park , Clacton , where my family and I have been going on Holiday for 10 years .
3 One of the few lichens that are spreading is Parmeliopsis ambigua , known to lichenologists as the ‘ yellow peril ’ .
4 Little has been written on the subject since then , but one may infer from the few remarks that are made on it that psychologists are no longer so impressed by ‘ the insuperable logical difficulty ’ James believed there to be in the way of saying that the difference between sensations may be one of ‘ place pure and simple ’ .
5 In most of these universes the conditions would not be right for the development of complicated organisms ; only in the few universes that are like ours would intelligent beings develop and ask the question : " why is the universe the way we see it ? "
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