Example sentences of "[art] few [noun pl] in [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The few parents in the study had had children relatively late , when they had established reputations which would bridge a career break . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Britain is currently one of the few countries in the world where so-called " gene food " is already on sale . |
| 6 | Now she thought that if she had to clear the table once more , put the few plates in the dish-washer , put the cereal packet away , brush the crumbs from the table top , she would scream and go on screaming : scream until the plaster started to crack from the walls and the neighbours gathered to stand whispering outside the window and the cat fled in terror . |
| 7 | We are one of the few companies in the pet food industry not to have seen a decline in sales during this period as wholesalers and retailers reduce stocks to compensate for the high interest rates . |
| 8 | One of the few agencies in the survey to use discount schemes that include the acceptance of low deposits and the offer of free travel insurance . |
| 9 | Concede goals on the break and seem incapable of surviving the few moments in a match that we are under pressure . |
| 10 | They are one of the few reactors in the country which , if anything went wrong with the core in any way , could not be shut down . |
| 11 | And when he died , he left the few bits in the cottage to Billy . |
| 12 | This is one of the few occasions in the House when I can say that many hon. Members on both sides of the House told the Government that that would happen if the Government allowed the policy to develop in the way it has . |
| 13 | They checked the few patients in the waiting-room , and Kathleen got Amy to sort them into priority , talking through the decision-making process as she did so . |
| 14 | The West is one of the few places in the world where women still have to change their names upon getting married . |
| 15 | The sunken city on its north shore makes it one of the few places in the world where it is possible to go hard aground on a Byzantine mosaic . |
| 16 | Here , in splendid isolation , emerged a tribe of Polynesians who were prepared to address problems such as this , and who moreover were one of the few peoples in the world to develop a system of writing . |
| 17 | Zahedi was one of the few men in the court with his own standing . |
| 18 | The idea was that the few men in the University who could read the original language of the Edda and the Sagas should group together with those who wished to learn , and read their way through the principal texts . |
| 19 | ‘ It is one of the few hospices in the country to have all four services actually working from one centre . ’ |
| 20 | RE is one of the few opportunities in the school timetable where such questions can be pursued in some depth . |
| 21 | As they gathered outside the wire waiting for their guard to open the gate into the camp , they were suspended for a few moments in a sort of limbo . |
| 22 | After I had been kept waiting for a few moments in an ante-room , I was ushered into the main boardroom where Dr Barton and six colleagues were seated around a long , rectangular , polished table . |
| 23 | Only northeast Scotland , parts of the southern Uplands and a few areas in the southwest receive less than 10kg/S/ha a year , and in the 1970s deposition was higher . |
| 24 | A few areas in the world are phylloxera-free and the vines there are sometimes ungrafted . |
| 25 | The rain will gradually die down from the west , to leave only a few showers in the south-east by the end of the day . |
| 26 | This morning , most areas had a bright start — apart from a few showers in the east . |
| 27 | Er it seems to me that erm there are probably quite a few policies in the structure plan that could be omitted if we just took the all the P P Gs as read . |
| 28 | ‘ We 're in a bizarre situation , are n't we , with me having access to some of the files and a few contacts in the Service and you doing the interrogations ? ’ |
| 29 | On Day One , the simple exercise of shooting a few scenes in the garden was partly to familiarise you with the idea of editing in camera . |
| 30 | particles are stopped by a sheet of aluminium and a have a range of a few metres in the air . |