Example sentences of "[was/were] one [prep] the few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Stylistic analysis was one of the few tasks for which such statistical information was deemed appropriate [ Ellegard , 1962 ] . |
| 32 | And rather alarmingly in a third , she lay flat on the balustrade of the gallery with one leg pointing towards a portrait of the Duke of Wellington who , with Lord Palmerston , was one of the few statesmen whose private life had been sufficiently scandalous to qualify him to be a ffeatherstonehaugh hero . |
| 33 | Their skills and courage were well tested under South Africa 's apartheid regime , when the Christian Church was one of the few groups that managed to get their voices heard . |
| 34 | Their skills and courage were well tested under South Africa 's apartheid regime , when the Christian Church was one of the few groups that managed to get their voices heard . |
| 35 | Labour MP Chris Mullin , another leader in the Guildford Four case , said : ‘ He was one of the few judges willing to face the possibility that the system to which he had devoted his life was capable of making serious mistakes . ’ |
| 36 | Neil Back was one of the few stars to emerge from the England ‘ B ’ tour to New Zealand . |
| 37 | " Dr Dunstaple , please ! " protested the Magistrate , who was one of the few cantonment-dwellers who had never experienced any affection for Dr Dunstaple . |
| 38 | United Biscuits was one of the few fallers after confirmation that it had sold its Terry 's chocolate division to Kraft of the U.S. in a deal worth £220 million . |
| 39 | Indeed , this was one of the few areas in the early 1980s to be aware of the significance of these centres for early intervention in psychiatric illness , aimed at countering the drift of clients into inpatient facilities and dependency . |
| 40 | I was lucky to have chosen to work in theoretical physics because that was one of the few areas in which my condition would not be a serious handicap . |
| 41 | It was easily accessible from the Awash railway station and was one of the few areas in Abyssinia where wild animals survived in any number . |
| 42 | For her it was one of the few instances where Susan was allowed to be anything other than a 15-year-old schoolgirl . |
| 43 | Allen , who had a goal disallowed , was one of the few players to perform well for Wales on a night when they were generally outclassed . |
| 44 | If Hull was one of the low points of the season , then the derby game against Hartlepool was one of the few highlights . |
| 45 | According to figures made public in 1990 , it was one of the few republics to run a positive balance in its trade with other republics . |
| 46 | Carter brought her little enough , and this was one of the few exceptions . |
| 47 | Sickened by the endemic one-upmanship of a political system founded on resistance nomenklatura ( Pompidou was one of the few politicians who had not been in the resistance ) , he spoke of the need to look to the future and forget the time when ‘ Frenchmen did not love one another . ’ |
| 48 | It was one of the few references to the former prime minister 's gender that I heard during the whole week of leadership crise . |
| 49 | Zahedi was one of the few men in the court with his own standing . |
| 50 | was one of the few men in England acknowledged as an authority on Luini . |
| 51 | AB : I would be a fool if I did n't say Schenker was one of the few analysts we can rate seriously . |
| 52 | Of course , sermon-tasting was one of the few traits shared by all church-going Victorians . |
| 53 | He was Surveyor to Eton College 's Chalk Farm Estate , and was one of the few architects working in an Elizabethan style at that time . |
| 54 | He said that this was one of the few buildings to have been built as Government Offices , but was still built ‘ in accordance with the principle of a private residence ’ . |
| 55 | Welsh House was one of the few buildings to survive the Great Fire . |
| 56 | Chemical knowledge was to be communicated in a straightforward manner , leaving associations and word play to poets and writers of fiction like Goethe , whose Elective Affinities was one of the few novels to exploit chemical imagery with serious rather than comic intent . |
| 57 | It was also humbling to know her as she was one of the few colleagues to combine the life of a successful international singer with an equally successful marriage ( to the music teacher Paul Blissett ) . |
| 58 | He was pleased , proud that his was one of the few households with milk in winter , and apparently unruffled by the irony of its coming too late , when the calf was already more dead than alive . |
| 59 | More recently General Wynell-Mayow , who is commemorated in the Church , was one of the few survivors of the heroic but futile charge of the six hundred at Balaclava . |
| 60 | Yardley was proud that he was one of the few bowlers who could claim to have dismissed Bradman three times in Tests . |