Example sentences of "[noun pl] [was/were] one [prep] [art] few " in BNC.

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1 Mice were one of the few things that Miss Fogerty could not endure .
2 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 .
3 ‘ The frets were one of the few things I actually bought for the guitar .
4 In a country where the media is state controlled and acts as a mouthpiece for the Party , putting up posters was one of the few forms of communication and free expression .
5 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 .
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