Example sentences of "[prep] the few [noun pl] of [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These were probably one of the few things of mine not due to be on show at the First Church of Christ the Spiritualist later this morning . |
| 2 | In one of the few misjudgements of his brilliant career Cockroft said that he was ‘ 90 per cent certain ’ that thermonuclear fusion was occurring . |
| 3 | LEFT : The chimney of Holcombe Mill is one of the few survivors of its kind . |
| 4 | Oldfield 's friendship with Richard Branson remained one of the few absolutes of his life . |
| 5 | One of the few conductors of his father 's music to excite Maxim Shostakovich 's admiration is Haitink . |
| 6 | There 's a bust of the author in Exeter college chapel ; one of the few reminders of him in Oxford . |
| 7 | The skin was one of the few aspects of himself he had passed on to Sylvia , his bonny young daughter . |
| 8 | When I married , I left behind the few friends of my childhood , and made no lasting friends in London . |
| 9 | It might have been my colleague Ann — who knew my whereabouts — or even my editor , come to congratulate me on the first pages of Lover at the Gate which I had faxed through from the hotel 's secretariat — or even Sophie , come to apologize , though I hardly imagined she had been promoted from child to lady in the few weeks of my absence . |
| 10 | Further on the Brook splits , and one tributary leads to the few remnants of what was Upper Ley Mill . |