Example sentences of "[prep] the few [noun pl] of [noun] " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ You must be one of the few friends of Gamal that I do n't know . ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Community theatre was one of the few forms of communication which managed to flourish under President Stroessner 's dictatorship in Paraguay . |
| 6 | In one of the few studies of evacuation behaviour after a non-nuclear hazard event Liverman and Wilson ( 1981 ) give weight to this argument . |
| 7 | Furthermore , the housing benefit has removed one of the few rights of protest left to the poor tenant in terrible housing conditions — arrears . |
| 8 | Mr Smith , 53 , is one of the few members of Labour 's front-bench team with Cabinet experience . |
| 9 | 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 ) . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | These Bible stories must be one of the few sources of information about dreaming made available during the course of our children 's education . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ It was one of the few bits of information we did manage to pick up on the grapevine . |
| 14 | The silver-haired Dubcek was one of the few figures of authority in Slovakia . |
| 15 | Since 1988 , Ulrich Mueller has possessed the only art gallery in Klettenberg , one of the few sections of Cologne with Art Nouveau buildings undamaged during the war . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | For the first time , an entirely independent body had uncovered a direct statistical link between Britain 's biggest nuclear power station and one of the few types of cancer which displayed a clear pathway back to radiation exposure . |
| 22 | Thus an opportunity had to be missed by the Library Association to assert its outright rejection of library censorship , using one of the few pieces of legislation that ensure that libraries exist and in a manner free from censorship . |
| 23 | Bryant 's 1983 article is one of the few pieces of work which touches on the subject , noting the number of selections made by seven public and academic libraries during an eight-week period in 1982 . |
| 24 | It seems to have been this last line which caused the editors of the Annotated Index to the Cantos of Ezra Pound to provide one of the few pieces of misinformation in that admirable work . |
| 25 | He wore the suit rarely and in one of the few points of discipline which he managed to impose on himself he always made sure that the suit , or the trousers at least , were pressed immediately after use . |
| 26 | ‘ Largo II ’ by Jan Sluijter , recently on loan to the Stedelijk Museum , is one of the few examples of Futurism in his work ( est . |
| 27 | We have provided an access fund to the institutions to enable them to deal with the few cases of hardship that genuinely occur . |
| 28 | Some tests were also made with the few boxes of plants available at this time . |
| 29 | This section first compares prevalence in Wirral with the few studies of rates of opioid use in other parts of the UK , and then turns to an examination of the characteristics of opioid users in different areas . |
| 30 | Before I began the formal research I had been aware from the few parents of children with trisomy 21 I knew that there was more disquiet about their negotiations with professionals and the treatment of their children than had made its way into the academic and professional literature on parents and families . |