Example sentences of "[was/were] one [prep] [art] very few " in BNC.
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| 1 | The family of Mortimer of Chirk were one of the very few permanent victims of the political upheavals between 1322 and 1330 : they abandoned the attempt to recover Chirk , and settled in Rent . |
| 2 | Rostov was one of a very few special exceptions to the Imperial edict which excluded commoners from access to the bi-annual treatment which was necessary for administration of the drug , but he saw no reason to apprise the Adjudicator of the fact . |
| 3 | Perhaps the most famous incumbent of Stanton Lacy is poor Robert Foulkes , who was one of the very few clergymen ever to have been executed for murder . |
| 4 | Perkin , I thought , was one of the very few people who 'd known about the camera and the trail . |
| 5 | He was one of the very few left of the Bruce 's close company , even if no paladin . |
| 6 | Famously tenacious in her friendships , she was one of the very few of Capote 's society ‘ swans ’ to stay true after the débâcle of Answered Prayers . |
| 7 | The growing numbers of underemployed middle- or upper-class women , for whom unpaid charitable work was one of the very few socially acceptable occupations , supplied a willing and almost endless supply of volunteers for such activity , such as has been available at no other period of British history . |
| 8 | The start of this session was one of the very few occasions when we specifically told the pupils how to conduct part of an activity . |
| 9 | Salt was one of the very few necessaries of life that could not be produced anywhere and had to be transported from the centres of production on the sea coasts , on tidal rivers , and from certain inland centres . |
| 10 | They did not pause on her arrival , though Alix , ever polite , waved obliquely to welcome her back : watching them , it occurred to Liz that perhaps in all the years they had all known one another , this was one of the very few occasions on which they had all been in the same room . |
| 11 | The Geological Survey was one of the very few organizations employing men of science in Britain — Greenwich Observatory was one of the others — but their status was about that of clerks in the Civil Service , and this rankled . |
| 12 | He was one of the very few men of science who gave a welcome , albeit qualified , to Vestiges ( 1844 ) presumably because he could see the wood for the trees ; but when the Origin of Species came out in 1859 he disliked it heartily , and became one of the most formidable opponents of Darwin and Huxley . |
| 13 | Though wounded seventeen times , he was one of the very few aces to survive the war . |