Example sentences of "[num] [prep] [art] few [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I know the erm , remarks made about getting extra people to register and to have their green card , I 'm probably one of a few councillors with a green card . |
| 2 | It was in a sad little side street — one of a few survivors from the era of terraced housing before the sprawling council estate was built in the fifties . |
| 3 | Nowadays , struggling on in the name of Islamic socialism , Algeria is a place of austerity , one of the few countries on earth where you ca n't get Coca-Cola . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | England is one of the few countries in which the legal tradition provides a test which can distinguish between the natural and the unnatural , the civilised and the barbarous . |
| 6 | But Bolivia is one of the few countries in which hyperinflation has had a happy outcome . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Ours is one of the few countries in the European Community that would meet those aspects of the stage 3 European monetary union standards . |
| 9 | Britain is currently one of the few countries in the world where so-called " gene food " is already on sale . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Latinos surged up to Hollywood Boulevard , one of the few breakthroughs from south of the Santa Monica Freeway , and trashed better-bred temples of consumption , such as Fredericks of Hollywood , the famous knicker store . |
| 12 | ‘ A mirror , ’ Reynard repeats , realising this is one of the few times in his life he 's been surprised . |
| 13 | She could look back on that time with a great deal of fondness ; it had been one of the few times in her life when she had been truly free — there had been no one , neither family , friends nor employer — to make demands on her . |
| 14 | Edward sat frozen , one of the few times in his life he had been genuinely frightened . |
| 15 | It was one of the few times in my life when I actually spoke the truth . |
| 16 | Anderson was one of the few members of the British colonial administration who , remaining in Africa after British colonialism retreated , made a successful transition to serving the independent governments of the continent . |
| 17 | Mr Smith , 53 , is one of the few members of Labour 's front-bench team with Cabinet experience . |
| 18 | She was one of the few members of the artistic community who admitted to religious observance . |
| 19 | That decentralized state structures serve to reduce the scope of welfare state expansion and socialist incumbency is one of the few findings in the comparative public policy literature on which there is near unanimity ( Castles , 1985 , p. 120 ) . |
| 20 | One of the few differences between beat policing and assembly-line work was that it contained a measure of unpredictability . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Community theatre was one of the few forms of communication which managed to flourish under President Stroessner 's dictatorship in Paraguay . |
| 23 | As Tim Whittome of the Cairngorm Chairlift Company points out , skiing represents one of the few forms of sustainable development in these thinly-populated and sometimes remote areas . |
| 24 | There have been some new houses built in the last few years , but Ottringham is one of the few villages in Holderness which has not seen large housing developments taking place . |
| 25 | One of the few lawyers in modern times to have reached the Woolsack other than via membership of the House of Commons and ministerial office , Gardiner was a visionary who came to government late in his career , with the result that his idealism had not been exhausted by previous struggles to get things done . |
| 26 | Since 1988 , Ulrich Mueller has possessed the only art gallery in Klettenberg , one of the few sections of Cologne with Art Nouveau buildings undamaged during the war . |
| 27 | Imbalances in the ecology of the reefs has been put forward as a reason for these plagues caused by commercial fishing of the large predatory gastropod the triton ( Charonia tritonis ) one of the few predators of the Crown of Thorns . |
| 28 | The silver-haired Dubcek was one of the few figures of authority in Slovakia . |
| 29 | This seemed to explain one of the few advantages of the underground network to Preston — the fact that it was comparatively free of Rottweilers and pit bull terriers . |
| 30 | Never the less , it is the child speaking we do n't put the words into their mouths and as such when they speak and when they write it down , it 's one of the , possibly one of the few chances of having primary evidence of how the child is at er , writing er , on an official document |