Example sentences of "[be] [num] of [art] few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet they 're one of the few products not advertised on TV , probably because their appearance is far from viewer-friendly . |
| 2 | ‘ You must be one of the few friends of Gamal that I do n't know . ’ |
| 3 | These Bible stories must be one of the few sources of information about dreaming made available during the course of our children 's education . |
| 4 | Jack was ready to bet all the crisp honeymoon pound notes he had in his pocket that Charlie would be one of the few quests not wearing a hired morning coat . |
| 5 | For them this meeting may be one of the few contacts they have with the Church . |
| 6 | POLLING stations 83 and 84 for the village of Hath Qila lie down a dusty track that must be one of the few roads that has not been metalled in the five years that Mr Rajiv Gandhi has been cosseting his home constituency of Amethi . |
| 7 | Britain , says Ash , must be one of the few countries where being ‘ too clever by half ’ is regarded as a stinging insult . |
| 8 | It is believed to be one of the few parasites which has become free-living . |
| 9 | ‘ I was totally wrong , it was immature , pure arrogance , ’ Souness confesses , in what must be one of the few confessions to take place inside Ibrox . |
| 10 | This would seem to be one of the few events that had any lasting emotional effect on him . |
| 11 | Not only will he be one of the few Democrats to win the presidency in the past 50 years but he will have humiliated an incumbent President in the process . |
| 12 | It will be one of the few practices that will be able to turn round and tell the FPC that it has got it wrong , claims its senior partner . |
| 13 | ‘ They are one of the few teams that have come here and attacked us and they did a good job , ’ he said . |
| 14 | Trolls are not the only monsters to be found there , but they are one of the few creatures able to thrive in this grim and hostile land . |
| 15 | 4ths are of particular value to guitarists as they are one of the few intervals that consistently sound good with a distorted sound ( try playing thirds with distortion , and you 'll see exactly what I mean ) . |
| 16 | They are one of the few reactors in the country which , if anything went wrong with the core in any way , could not be shut down . |
| 17 | We are one of the few companies in the pet food industry not to have seen a decline in sales during this period as wholesalers and retailers reduce stocks to compensate for the high interest rates . |
| 18 | Well good luck to you because er you know I can tell you right now we are one of the few companies that take on people in their fifties . |
| 19 | ‘ We are one of the few clubs that could maintain a big staff and keep everybody happy . |
| 20 | Machine-tools are one of the few industries in east Germany that come close to matching world standards , and Niles Werkzeugmaschinen , based in the district of Weissensee , was the core enterprise of the defunct 7 Oktober engineering combine . |
| 21 | Because potatoes do not absorb radioactive nucleotides , they are one of the few crops that could be grown safely in the heavily contaminated soils around Chernobyl . |
| 22 | When all else fails , disciplinary procedures instigated properly and fairly are one of the few protections the public has . |
| 23 | Festivals are one of the few opportunities in the UK for screening short films , and we will be presenting not just this year 's BFI New Directors shorts , but also programmes of short films from film schools in the UK and Canada , from the Arts Council funded schemes and films funded by the filmmakers themselves . |
| 24 | But Mr Swash said : ‘ These parties are one of the few occasions some people get out . |
| 25 | She could look back on that time with a great deal of fondness ; it had been one of the few times in her life when she had been truly free — there had been no one , neither family , friends nor employer — to make demands on her . |
| 26 | Hackney-born Ehiogu , who has won seven Under-21 caps , has been one of the few successes in a disappointing England side this season . |
| 27 | Moreover , because of the first-past-the-post electoral system and the predominantly two-party system , it has been one of the few parties of the left able to form a government on its own . |
| 28 | It had been one of the few mistakes Gould had ever made . |
| 29 | Many mothers were upset because they feared for the safety of their children — and because , for numerous women , control over young people had been one of the few ways to exercise power in society . |
| 30 | Apart from a cinema , there were no real forms of entertainment ; mixing with Servicemen 's wives would have been one of the few ways of passing the days . |