Example sentences of "[num] of [art] [adv] few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A very warm day here at Lord 's , breeze just starting to get up a little , in fact the sun has just disappeared behind one of a very few clouds . |
| 2 | The London County Council , for long a stronghold of the Labour party , was one of the relatively few authorities to press firmly in this direction in the immediate post-war years . |
| 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 | Now we 're one of the very few companies that will pay weekly commissions on a commission only basis . |
| 5 | Tanzania is one of the very few countries in Africa that broadcasts in only one African language plus that of the former colonial power . |
| 6 | Although it appears that sentencing became more severe during the first three years the guide-lines were in use , Minnesota remains one of the very few states that has avoided huge increases in prison population size ( Parent 1988 ) . |
| 7 | It is one of the very few creatures in the world that can kill by electrocution . |
| 8 | He must have been a natural for the job , being one of the very few Greeks with an appropriate qualification . |
| 9 | In 1668 he was elected a fellow of the Royal Society , becoming thereby one of the very few businessmen in that body . |
| 10 | Richter is one of the very few artists making recordings of standard repertoire who are so awe-inspiring in their comprehensiveness that the long list of comparative versions becomes a virtual irrelevance . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | When the old Roman city was revived and became London again , from the late ninth century on , one of its prime functions in the eyes of King Alfred and his successors was as a bulwark against the Danes ; his boroughs had a major defensive role to play , and London was the greatest of them — one of the very few cities of this age which came wholly to fill a Roman enceinte . |
| 13 | Though wounded seventeen times , he was one of the very few aces to survive the war . |
| 14 | The Dornoch Firth is one of the very few areas around the British Isles given a Grade A classification for shellfish purity . |
| 15 | Prostatitis is one of the very few conditions for which doctors may sometimes recommend more sex . |
| 16 | It is one of the very few institutions where the shared goals overcome nationalist or racial considerations . |
| 17 | The architect , Bogdan Bogdanovic , whose entire career has been devoted to the tragic commemoration of war victims , is one of the very few Serbians brave enough to speak out against the current Serbian aggression . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | This , as one of the very few occasions , when , during a meeting , the girls did not sit traditionally silent or whisper amongst themselves . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The car was parked neatly between two patches of off-street parking , in one of the very few parts of the street that was neither metered nor dedicated to residents ' parking . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | This quotation is one of the very few places in his work where he actually mentions soil erosion . |
| 24 | NME remains one of the very few places the featherbed treatment is n't guaranteed . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | As Frances Power Cobbe observed , the doctor assumed a position of great importance in the middle class household and was indeed one of the very few men of her own class that the married middle class woman dealt with directly ; while to doctors , middle class female patients represented a lucrative source of income . |