Example sentences of "[prep] the few [noun pl] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Probyn is one of the few players on the international scene to have played the game at every level : from Old Albanians , Streatham and Croydon through Richmond and Wasps to the first of his 33 caps in 1988 . |
| 2 | Asthma is one of the few diseases on the increase in Britain said Simon Hughes , the party 's environment spokesman . |
| 3 | OPPOSITE ABOVE : Suttons Mill at Cranham , one of the few mills on the Painswick stream having no connection with the cloth trade . |
| 4 | Normally , little jumble could be expected from the few cottages on the headland , but Alex Mair , anxious to associate the power station with the community , had put up a notice on the staff board and the two tea chests were usually fairly full by the time the October sale came round . |
| 5 | That most of these exotic names , these exotic Puritan names , are to be found just in the few villages on the borders of East Sussex and Kent that , and are , are to be found in the fifteen nineties to sixteen hundreds . |
| 6 | So they choose to plant grass and root crops in the few fields on the lower slopes . |
| 7 | ‘ The fire exploded , spilling out on to the hearth , licking at the few drops on the floor , and in seconds Dame Frances was a blazing torch and your secret was safe . ’ |