Example sentences of "the few [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | The alder is one of the few tree species to fix nitrogen on a significant scale ; one theory is that atmospheric and water enrichment with nitrogen is upsetting the delicate relationship between the trees and soil micro-organisms . |
2 | He has achieved his success through his own talent , the support of his parents , and the skill and guidance of David Lloyd , the fiercely independent former British Davis Cup player whose mushrooming tennis centres have been one of the few success stories in British tennis in the last decade . |
3 | He certainly seemed below par in the few mid-season matches last year , but the whole team looked poor in those . |
4 | Billed as ‘ the silliest tour we 've done … very pantomime ’ , it 's one of the few winter tours selling well in a chilly economic climate — testimony again to the loyalty afforded the duo by their UK following . |
5 | ‘ She 's very creative , ’ says PWL managing director David Howells , one of the few music industry figures who have seen Kylie 's work . |
6 | The tourist or business or conference traveller will more often than not travel on a plane manufactured by one of the few aerospace TNCs that dominate the civil airline industry , occupy a hotel room subcontracted to or owned or managed by the local affiliate of one of the few chains that dominate the global hotel industry , hire a car from an agency of one of the international firms that dominate the car rental industry , and will pay for all this with one of the credit cards issued by the few TNCs that control global personal finance . |
7 | Equally coveted were a magnificent pair of Louis XVI ormolu-mounted Boulle marquetry and Japanese lacquer commodes by Etienne Levasseur which had the added distinction of being beautiful , practical and with an eighteenth-century provenance ( one of the few Patiño pieces with that distinction ) , made for the great connoisseur Pierre Louis-Paul Randon de Boisset . |
8 | The hon. Lady is right — the tragedy is that Britain is one of the few member states which could have met the convergence conditions of the EMU almost immediately . |
9 | The meeting immediately elected Moore , an instinctive populist and one of the few member of the Cabinet with genuinely working class credentials , to lead the party and to attempt to restore those areas of traditional Labour support eroded by Rogernomics . |
10 | It is one of the few stone galleries . |
11 | The few stone buildings showed English and Scottish influence above all . |
12 | By last month tens of thousands of people were on the road to the few relief centres that the government runs . |
13 | Médecins Sans Frontières and the International Committee of the Red Cross ( ICRC ) were among the few relief organizations continuing to operate in the town . |
14 | Luis Calvopina , the station scientist responsible for feral animals , thinks the pigs could be eradicated in as little as nine months , with a concentrated campaign in the dry season when the few water sources would act as baits . |
15 | Smashing through the few Night Goblins that remained to oppose them , Duregar and Belegar headed west . |
16 | Paradise Cars in Oxford is one of the few taxi firms run by women for women . |
17 | It was said that the few cabin passengers on board sailed under very different conditions . |
18 | The few wall lights that were working were back-ups . |
19 | In the current situation of economic recession , and cuts in the few nursery facilities that do exist , this option does not appear to be a very feasible one . |
20 | Each tag will have to hold at least the information : This will mean that the few home addresses or home buckets which have large numbers of synonyms will have to allocate a lot of space for these tags . |
21 | The few Tit for Tat individuals do n't meet each other often enough to be of mutual benefit . |
22 | Designworks is one of the few budget drawing packages that is n't derived from a larger , more expensive product . |
23 | If you enjoy the sensation of being an integral part of the driving experience , with all that that entails , then this 911 is one of the few road cars which still has what it takes to excite you . |
24 | The few craft of the disposal of the Government Indian Agency FUNAI have frequently broken down . |
25 | Of course there were again too many people chasing too few jobs , but they took it so well , from the older ones amongst the women , who shared out the few cleaning jobs that were going in the City of London , to the elderly Scottish temporary Clerk-in-Charge of the boy 's department . |
26 | Historical comparisons between the results of the few surveillance studies of locally confined disease with results of treatment studies are not conclusive . |
27 | Our way was up to one of the few glacier tongues that was n't too steep and broken up by crevasses . |
28 | The tops of ling heather ( Calluna vulgaris ) , produce yet another shade of yellow dye when boiled in water , and in fact that entire plant is wonderfully versatile : it was commonly used for thatching houses , and even today the few Highland thatchers that remain will swear it is the best thatch in Gaeldom ; it provided beds to sleep on , with the ‘ tops up and roots down ’ arrangement of the mattress assuring a pleasantly aromatic and sound sleep ; it was used in part of the process of tanning leather ; and the fresh , young tops of the heather were ( and at times still are ) brewed into a kind of ale . |
29 | His mother had spoken to Mr McDoodle , who owned one of the few horse and carts in the village , asking him if he could take Endill to the nearest train station which was over the hills in the town of Moorloch . |
30 | Richard and Laura were among the few boat owners who did not know this . |