Example sentences of "this [was/were] one [prep] [art] few " in BNC.
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1 | Carter brought her little enough , and this was one of the few exceptions . |
2 | He said that this was one of the few buildings to have been built as Government Offices , but was still built ‘ in accordance with the principle of a private residence ’ . |
3 | This was one of the few houses to escape destruction in the Great Fire . |
4 | This was one of the few occasions when Joan was unable to accompany her half-sister . |
5 | This was one of the few liberties taken by the film 's editors , as no B–17 quite arrived that way on December 7 , but the shot was clearly too good not to include and it approximated to what had happened to a number of the actual B–17s which stumbled into the attack . |
6 | Indeed , this was one of the few areas in the early 1980s to be aware of the significance of these centres for early intervention in psychiatric illness , aimed at countering the drift of clients into inpatient facilities and dependency . |
7 | In my opinion this was one of the few good things to come out of our membership of the Common Market . |