Example sentences of "of the few [noun pl] [pron] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well I would n't worry too much about cramming it all together tightly because it 's erm one of the few things we 've still got a budget for is photocopying student questionnaires so you m you know , you might as well take advantage of that , it does n't erm it does n't cost you anything and the actual difference it makes to the university and to erm world resources is very slight indeed I think |
| 2 | One of the few women who had done so over time without the complement of sexual gratification . |
| 3 | It is believed to be one of the few parasites which has become free-living . |
| 4 | " Dr Dunstaple , please ! " protested the Magistrate , who was one of the few cantonment-dwellers who had never experienced any affection for Dr Dunstaple . |
| 5 | In fact , it was one of the few times I had seen him act in a civil way towards his stepmother . |
| 6 | Even Graham , one of the few members who had left home and lived in a flat , would be helping in the campaign , although he would not be voting Conservative , so much did he dislike the personality and politics of the local MP . |
| 7 | So that 's one of the few options you 've got at the moment . |
| 8 | For them this meeting may be one of the few contacts they have with the Church . |
| 9 | 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 ) . |
| 10 | She compromised with one of the few dresses she 'd brought with her — a simple navy cotton in a button-through style , with short sleeves , a deep square neck and a full skirt . |
| 11 | But one of the few countries he has not designed for is his homeland Hungary . |
| 12 | The Turner Prize is therefore one of the few ways we have of acknowledging the contribution the visual arts play in our culture . |
| 13 | It is no longer the kiss of death to an actor ( watch this space ) , and it 's one of the few ways we have of paying the school fees on a regular basis . |
| 14 | Darts is one of the few sports I 've got the right build for . |
| 15 | In fact , it 's one of the few places he 's ever been outside London . |
| 16 | Sickened by the endemic one-upmanship of a political system founded on resistance nomenklatura ( Pompidou was one of the few politicians who had not been in the resistance ) , he spoke of the need to look to the future and forget the time when ‘ Frenchmen did not love one another . ’ |
| 17 | If you belong to one of the few parishes who have not yet started a discussion group then why not start now . |
| 18 | As he took it their fingers met , invoking so vivid a memory of the few seconds she had spent in his arms that she jerked away , spilling coffee into the saucer . |
| 19 | We sat on a tree that had been felled and ate some very tasty ham sandwiches -one of the few picnics I have ever been to . |