Example sentences of "[num] of [art] few [noun pl] [Wh det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Holland is one of the few countries which practices a hotel grading system ranging from 1 to 5 stars . |
| 2 | According to Fidelity — one of the few companies which is to date offering these funds — the yield on its Tax Free Income Plan ( a unit trust comprising 51 per cent equities and 49 per cent bonds ) will fall from about 6 per cent now to 5.75 per cent after 5 April . |
| 3 | It is one of the few sites which illustrate the many phases of castle building in Britain . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | It is believed to be one of the few parasites which has become free-living . |
| 6 | We charge the highest rate in the country for issuing fire certificates which is one of the few things which we 're actually allowed to charge , and we charge more than virtually any other authority in this country . |
| 7 | Information is one of the few products which the West can sell to the Far East . |
| 8 | He is one of the few writers whose books are read and loved by people in the East and the West . |
| 9 | Furthermore , this is one of the few studies which gives an account of the feelings after the task was completed . |
| 10 | The ancient Forest of Naddle , with deciduous trees , is one of the few areas which remain to show the natural tree growth of the region . |
| 11 | One of the few complaints which I would make is that the actor looks much too spruce for someone who is living rough in every sense of the word — forever dossing down in stations and trains and consuming endless quantities of the most vicious liquors . |
| 12 | Mr Johnston , who stood on a ‘ Save Our Townlands ’ ticket in the council elections of 1977 , said : ‘ It is one of the few powers which councils have left that they can enforce the format for local addresses . |
| 13 | It was one of the few cottages which housed a wireless . |
| 14 | In fact Peasgood suggests , in one of the few surveys which have been carried out in this area , that selection in academic libraries from the ‘ book in hand ’ was found to be no more effective than selection from lists ( effectiveness being measured in terms of subsequent issues ) . |
| 15 | It is one of the few diseases which medicine could attack before the Second World War , by passive immunization . |
| 16 | Retirement is one of the few moments which a politician can choose with deliberation and Baldwin had been preparing for it for months , if not for years . |
| 17 | The hotel , catering and tourist industry is the second largest employer in the United Kingdom , a major contributor to the balance of payments , and one of the few industries which is showing , and will continue to show , real growth . |
| 18 | But the first real headhunting boom began in the late 1970s and early 1980s , when the recession really began to bite ; executive search may be seen as one of the few industries which grew in this period . |
| 19 | But as Thierry Bernard , the director of ERAI ( Enterprise Rhone-Alpes International ) points out : ‘ This is one of the few regions which does not offer financial incentives . |
| 20 | Wood is scarce in the Sinai desert , but the acacia is one of the few trees which grow there . |
| 21 | John Holt ( one of the few authors whose books still seem able to appeal to students despite their inoculation ) writes of a common experience that mirrors mine with the Scottish educational psychologists . |
| 22 | Members of the British Diabetic Association say Darlington 's Memorial is one of the few hospitals which does not have a diabetic liaison nurse . |