Example sentences of "[prep] the few [noun pl] of [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was a spaciousness and simplicity of line that made a perfect foil for the few touches of vibrant colour that drew the eye , and yet the whole effect was completely uncontrived , as if it had all come together naturally . |
| 2 | As Tim Whittome of the Cairngorm Chairlift Company points out , skiing represents one of the few forms of sustainable development in these thinly-populated and sometimes remote areas . |
| 3 | Shelford , with Iro , is one of the few players of undoubted world class the tourists presently possess , and his absence would seriously dent New Zealand 's Test hopes . |
| 4 | For the men , work means construction or security — one of the few areas of economic expansion . |
| 5 | One of the few areas of common ground which both Keynes and Friedman occupy centres on the definition of a state of overall full employment : full employment prevails when the aggregate supply of labour , L s , equals the aggregate demand for labour , L d , at a unique , market clearing real wage rate , w * ; . |
| 6 | It 's one of the few privileges of old age . |
| 7 | Sotheby 's open the Impressionist season with Matisse 's ‘ Fatma , la mulatresse ’ painted in 1912 and one of the few pictures of this period likely to come on the market . |
| 8 | It is one of the few gestures of real friendship encountered by this lonely man in his long and tormented odyssey . |
| 9 | Used for centuries as a symbol of hospitality and welcome , it is also one of the few rays of culinary delight at this dreariest time of the year . |
| 10 | It is one of the few examples of mobiliary art of the period from Britain . |
| 11 | Douglas Jay observed that the later 1970s were a time of genuine recovery — ‘ one of the few examples of any Western governments in the seventies reducing both inflationary pressures and unemployment ’ at one and the same time . |
| 12 | Profoundly subordinate , and remote from the few voices of intellectual protest , trade unions could provide no effective challenge to bourgeois hegemony ; rather they were firmly embedded in the mystical pragmatism , rationalism , evolutionism and nationalism of the Victorian epoch . |
| 13 | In the few examples of written policies on special needs and/or integration , the under-fives may be tacked on , or tagged alongside a general commitment to all children with special needs . |
| 14 | One has simply to glance at the few fragments of these Galatica ( 745 Jacoby ) — all quoted by Stephanus of Byzantium — to be persuaded that the author of the Galatica is a younger namesake of the great Eratosthenes — perhaps a descendant who noticed the lacunae in the geography of his predecessor . |