Example sentences of "of the few [noun pl] of the " in BNC.
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1 | Imbalances in the ecology of the reefs has been put forward as a reason for these plagues caused by commercial fishing of the large predatory gastropod the triton ( Charonia tritonis ) one of the few predators of the Crown of Thorns . |
2 | Anderson was one of the few members of the British colonial administration who , remaining in Africa after British colonialism retreated , made a successful transition to serving the independent governments of the continent . |
3 | She was one of the few members of the artistic community who admitted to religious observance . |
4 | At its best it remains one of the few areas of the modern press where imagination , honesty and idealism , however fatuous , can still , occasionally , be found . |
5 | This seemed to explain one of the few advantages of the underground network to Preston — the fact that it was comparatively free of Rottweilers and pit bull terriers . |
6 | More recently General Wynell-Mayow , who is commemorated in the Church , was one of the few survivors of the heroic but futile charge of the six hundred at Balaclava . |
7 | And there is passion as well as poetry in Sing as We Go ( 1934 ) , one of the few films of the 1930s to make any reference to unemployment . |
8 | Secretary John Deakin admits it 's one of the few drawbacks of the new set-up . |
9 | Cuts in the public sector eat away at one of the few parts of the economy with a relatively even geographical distribution , especially local services ( Massey , 1984 ) . |
10 | … And I think you 've also got to have people who do bear in mind that they 're about one of the few parts of the authority that are in the forefront of the people and are basically representing the authority . |
11 | Moreover , because of the first-past-the-post electoral system and the predominantly two-party system , it has been one of the few parties of the left able to form a government on its own . |
12 | One of the few recommendations of the Monopolies and Mergers Commission report of 1989 into the supply of beer that was adopted by the government was to bring tenants under the protection of the Landlord and Tenant Act . |
13 | Indeed , one may imagine that in their private lives these same authors may well feel that the visit of the in-laws or attendance at some social function or a distant relative , two of the few reminders of the once overwhelming burden of personal social relations , are curbs upon their own ‘ freedom ’ . |