Example sentences of "few remaining [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anything you can suggest as a remedy to prevent me from parting with my few remaining strands of hair will be welcome . |
| 2 | ‘ In addition to being one of the few remaining commons in the area Newtown Common is a very valuable home for wildlife . ’ |
| 3 | It also happens to have very valuable timber , and the Chilean government is anxious to profit from the dead trees that are interspersed with living ones in the few remaining areas of forest where alerce still occurs . |
| 4 | Working with environmentalist groups , the Guarani Indians argue that Brazil can not afford to lose any more of the few remaining areas of Atlantic rainforest , of which only 5 per cent is intact . |
| 5 | In June , one of the few remaining sections of single line on the main road in Croydon was doubled , that between Aberdeen Road and Parker Road , South End . |
| 6 | On the wall at the end of the Long Room hangs one of the few remaining copies of the Proclamation of the Irish Republic , which was read aloud at the General Post Office on Easter Monday 1916 . |
| 7 | Ayala Lasso also expressed the hope that the admission of the Koreas would reduce regional tension and provide the two states with " an appropriate forum in which to consider the many things they have in common and to overcome the few remaining obstacles to their unification " . |
| 8 | The Univel Inc joint venture of Novell Inc and soon-to-be-Novell subsidiary Unix System Laboratories Inc yesterday went onto the desktop Unix warpath by cutting prices for the desktop and application server versions of UnixWare , ‘ taking away one of the few remaining constraints to the rapid market adoption of Unix system as a client-server system ’ for iAPX-86-based computers . |
| 9 | GCHQ began in 1919 as the Government Code and Cipher School ( GCCS ) , picking up the few remaining members of the army and naval teams of codebreakers who had operated in Britain during World War I. A very small team was formed , working on a tiny annual budget in MI6 's offices at 56 Broadway , in London . |
| 10 | House-hunters in the Castlereagh area still have the opportunity to purchase a few remaining properties through the scheme and can get further information by ringing freephone 333644 . |
| 11 | There are few remaining examples of some of the older designs , like the duchesse ( which was a sort of daybed in three pieces ) . |
| 12 | A marvellous stylistic contrast to the intricacy and sophistication of these magnificent Court carpets can be seen in the delightful Marby rug — named after the Swedish village in whose church it was found — which is one of the few remaining examples of the first Anatolian or Caucasian rugs to be brought into the West . |
| 13 | Mid Essex Mental Health Services is one of the few remaining branches of the NHS in the county still answerable directly to its local health authority rather than having trust status . |
| 14 | LIONEL HAMPTON One of the few remaining links with the classic era , Hamp played drums for Louis Armstrong as long ago as 1930 ; later in that decade his pulsating vibes gave Benny Goodman 's great quartet much of its joie de vivre . |
| 15 | So she went to Madras , in whose pleasant climate she would live out the few remaining weeks of her life . |
| 16 | Opposition Members would welcome the opportunity to debate Government and Opposition policies during the general election campaign , but , given that the Prime Minister does not have the guts to call an election , can you please ensure that , during the few remaining weeks of the Government 's period of office , Prime Minister 's Question Time will be used to ask the Prime Minister questions about Government policy ? |
| 17 | The few remaining travellers in Gloucestershire say that they 'll soon be on the move , and predict fresh clashes with the police this summer : |
| 18 | THE congregation from Orangefield Presbyterian Church will see out the few remaining days of summer as they plan a family fun day this Saturday at Orangefield Park . |
| 19 | The Fund also wished to cut the public wage bill ( increase unemployment ) ; lift import controls ( allowing an influx of consumer goods , thereby undermining local production ) ; privatize national industries at outrageously discounted prices ; raise interest rates ( also hitting the competitiveness of local producers ) ; and remove exchange controls ( ‘ so that a privileged few could legitimately drain the country of the few remaining dregs of foreign reserves ’ ) . |
| 20 | The few remaining tanks of the Chelonian assault force were moving rapidly over the rock towards them . |
| 21 | They ensured that the infant emperor continued to study in Paris for another seven years and meantime the French Resident Superior in Hue arrogated to himself the few remaining vestiges of imperial authority . |
| 22 | The few remaining Jews in Eastern Europe are being allowed a greater degree of freedom , but so are antisemites . |