Example sentences of "[prep] [art] few countries " in BNC.
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| 1 | America is one of the few countries that , in effect , taxes corporate income twice : once as corporation tax , and a second time as personal-income tax , when the income is paid out as dividends . |
| 2 | This disillusionment among the young must be worrying for the Iranian regime , which is one of the few countries in the world with a minimum voting age of only 15 . |
| 3 | France , he adds , is one of the few countries where science and technology has a future . |
| 4 | England is one of the few countries in which the legal tradition provides a test which can distinguish between the natural and the unnatural , the civilised and the barbarous . |
| 5 | Singapore is one of the few countries that supports the reality of global business . |
| 6 | But Bolivia is one of the few countries in which hyperinflation has had a happy outcome . |
| 7 | Although Australia remain one of the few countries to have taken part in every Summer Olympiad ( Greece , Switzerland and Great Britain are the others ) , they did not bring a cricket team to Paris . |
| 8 | Holland is one of the few countries which practices a hotel grading system ranging from 1 to 5 stars . |
| 9 | Nowadays , struggling on in the name of Islamic socialism , Algeria is a place of austerity , one of the few countries on earth where you ca n't get Coca-Cola . |
| 10 | Britain , says Ash , must be one of the few countries where being ‘ too clever by half ’ is regarded as a stinging insult . |
| 11 | South Africa is one of the few countries in the world where people drive on the left , so that most motorcars have a right-hand drive . |
| 12 | Ours is one of the few countries in the European Community that would meet those aspects of the stage 3 European monetary union standards . |
| 13 | In doing so it became one of the few countries where the brand has an active agency handling Guinness through the retail distribution system . |
| 14 | Britain is currently one of the few countries in the world where so-called " gene food " is already on sale . |
| 15 | Mexico is one of the few countries that still allow fishermen to encircle and snare dolphins to catch the tuna that swim with them . |
| 16 | But one of the few countries he has not designed for is his homeland Hungary . |
| 17 | A bit late : the bank 's growth in lending , and therefore its leverage , except in a few countries like China , Vietnam and Argentina , is likely to slow in the coming years . |
| 18 | Although the central confederations of employers ' associations are usually much less involved in collective bargaining than are the industry associations , nevertheless in a few countries the peak organisations do play a major role . |
| 19 | Firms can choose to concentrate their resources in a few countries and emphasise exports to other markets , or they can disperse their resources and emphasise FDI . |
| 20 | Only in a few countries in Northern Europe , ours among them , is an incorrupt public service normal . |
| 21 | I suppose that in a few countries like Nazi Germany in nineteen-thirty-six the erm the nation 's amateur champions were given a special backing because of the force of nationalism erm national focus of attention on them at that date , but it , it still was , they were amateurs still meeting on equal ground . |
| 22 | WACC has acquired a certain expertise in this field , but its activities so far have been confined to a few countries or sub-regions . |
| 23 | It has hardly been recognised that India is among the few countries in the world that has a proven capability to undertake orbital missions or detonate a nuclear device . |