Example sentences of "which [art] few " in BNC.

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1 It has often occurred in the fields of social security and local government , in which the few local authority victories in the courts have proved extremely short lived .
2 Between them , they have solved the problem of finding a role for an institution which a few decades ago looked to be under siege .
3 At one end of this dim room was an open fireplace , in which a few huge logs still smouldered in a bed of white ash ; on either side of this were two heavy , curved and padded armchairs , covered in velvet , a dark charcoal colour , pattered with dark purple flowers , a kind of glamorised fin-de-siècle bindweed .
4 In 1912 , C. D. Paterson of Manly in Australia returned from Hawaii with a heavy redwood board which a few local bodysurfers tried in vain to ride .
5 Those who had not escaped remained as a nucleus permanent staff to which a few of the prisoners passing through were added .
6 Myths form a large part of poetry or music for they are the ancient background of man 's thoughts which the materialist world has spurned , but which a few poets and mystics have jealously guarded and preserved .
7 This probably represents a fair picture of the more casual breeding season or breeding records , of which a few occur in most years .
8 But the new house signified something else , the powerful hold over Sussex life which a few very great landowners exercised for the next two centuries or so .
9 Resist the temptation to climb onto the ledge , for this is one of those red herrings which prove difficult to retreat from , and make haste with the short traverse , after which a few moves on rounded layaways gain the surprisingly airy belay .
10 Sitting in his office , Mr Johnson offered us both cold beers from a pail of water in which a few pieces of ice floated .
11 But is n't it funny how people who are now well and truly ‘ progged up ’ are willing to accept this sort of thing which a few months ago they 'd have left well alone ?
12 Charisma is that aspect of personality which a few people possess which makes others follow them .
13 We have begun again to structure the primordial feeling , the tribal emotions from which a few centuries of literacy divorced us. ( op. cit. : 63 . )
14 Copulation is repeated at intervals between which a few capsules are laid ( Fretter and Graham , 1962 ) .
15 His own hair was hidden under a latex cap from which a few grey wisps straggled crazily .
16 Scrawny , like most wizards , and clad in a dark red robe on which a few mystic sigils were embroidered in tarnished sequins .
17 He saw them at their home , talked with them , wrote to them , received letters from them — and all the time heard blow-by-blow accounts of their sexual activities , all of which a few years earlier would have had them rotting away in jail for life .
18 ‘ A lot of the lads are lacking confidence and that means we just are n't trying things which a few weeks ago we were doing .
19 Typical of these is the crossbill , a bird of the pine forests , which every few years arrives in Shetland in flocks .
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