Example sentences of "[prep] the few occasion " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the few occasions that United Biscuits ever took a hasty decision was when it bought a company in Spain at a time when it felt under pressure to expand into Europe . |
| 2 | It was also one of the few occasions where the singer 's sense of humour was enticed from the shell . |
| 3 | One of the few occasions big bream spend any length of time in marginal weed is the two or three weeks in spring or early summer when they spawn . |
| 4 | This ranks as one of the few occasions in the past 20 years when I have forked out for a little bottle . |
| 5 | The political activity around Clause 28 was one of the few occasions when lesbians and gay men have worked together and successfully expressed their anger . |
| 6 | In fact , there 's a simple explanation for the loopily lopsided emphasis , spelled out by the BBC 's Election 92 editor , Peter Horrocks : ‘ Election night is one of the few occasions when BBC and ITV are in direct competition with the same programming . ’ |
| 7 | This was one of the few occasions when Joan was unable to accompany her half-sister . |
| 8 | One of the few occasions for sharp words between them , in public at any rate , occurred when Elena disagreed about internal decorations with him . |
| 9 | One of the few occasions when she had been really cross with me had been when I suggested he might have been wiser to make some sort of provision for his wife and son . |
| 10 | While this does not appear to be such an earth shattering decision , it is one of the few occasions when a coroner 's action has been criticised . |
| 11 | ‘ It was one of the few occasions in his life when he tried and failed . |
| 12 | One of the few occasions , it appeared , when Dame Iris had met her match . |
| 13 | One of the few occasions I ever saw him and the only one in which we sat face to face . |
| 14 | Oh , then I am young again and , for one of the few occasions in my life , deeply in love . |
| 15 | This is one of the few occasions in the House when I can say that many hon. Members on both sides of the House told the Government that that would happen if the Government allowed the policy to develop in the way it has . |
| 16 | It was also , I learned , one of the few occasions anyone at PKB could remember that Patterson had a meeting with his door shut and nobody got fired . |
| 17 | It is significant that one of the few occasions when the author of Ancrene Wisse hints at the contemplative experience occurs in his account of the behaviour appropriate at the Mass : ( After the kiss of peace in the Mass , when the priest communicates , forget the world , be completely out of the body , and with burning love embrace your Beloved who has come down from heaven to your heart 's bower , and hold Him fast until He has granted you all that you ask . ) |
| 18 | It was the first time the monarch had ever used a Thames passenger ferry — and one of the few occasions when she had arrived at an official engagement by public transport in the UK . |
| 19 | Recording a verdict of accidental death on Johnathan and his father , Cheshire 's deputy coroner , John Pollard , said : ‘ This is one of the few occasions when we can genuinely describe something as a tragedy . |
| 20 | Recording a verdict of accidental death on Johnathan and his father , Cheshire 's deputy coroner , John Pollard , said : ‘ This is one of the few occasions when we can genuinely describe something as a tragedy . |
| 21 | But Mr Swash said : ‘ These parties are one of the few occasions some people get out . |
| 22 | On the few occasions when I had ventured a criticism , he always picked on some word or expression I used to prove his point , claiming that it was a subconscious betrayal of my true nature and my real thought . |
| 23 | On the few occasions when parents have taken their grievances over sex discrimination to the courts , the question has concerned school admissions and single-sex schooling , which was discussed in Chapter 4 in the context of parental choice . |
| 24 | On the few occasions that he had gone down to The priory with the lad , his parents had treated him as one of the family . |
| 25 | As I understood , he was asleep for much of the time , and indeed , I found him so on the few occasions I had a spare moment to ascend to that little attic room . |
| 26 | On the few occasions I have met him it has been very difficult for me not to let slip something about you . |
| 27 | The group 's sound engineer , Mike Stout , deputised and also stood in on the few occasions Solowka chose to attend Leeds United matches instead of gigs . |
| 28 | On the few occasions when the wind was not blowing a gale , the fog descended like a shroud . |
| 29 | It became known that we were perilously short of hay because the haytiming on our pastures had been very poor that summer and it was impossible to bring enough in on the horse-drawn sledge on the few occasions we were able to get out . |
| 30 | There were dances in the Hut by the Strathmore Arms and when we grew up a bit and thought our fathers would n't find out we would nip into the Strathmore Arms for a pint , on the few occasions we could afford . |