Example sentences of "and [be] one [prep] [art] few " in BNC.
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1 | Entering the monastery , the ticket office is on the left and is one of the few places in Prague where good guide books can be bought . |
2 | The move towards cooperation stems from the Versailles summit last June and is one of the few positive initiatives to come out of the seven-nation meeting . |
3 | It is called Macrae 's Monument and is one of the few things left in Ayrshire to remind us of a very remarkable man called James Macrae . |
4 | This hostelry has a county-wide following and is one of the few pubs in England that still has no bar and serves its wonderful beer straight from the barrels in the cellar . |
5 | The mill was built in 1821 and is one of the few surviving working tower mills in the country . |
6 | Defence has accounted for 11% of UK manufacturing output and is one of the few sectors in which the country is still a world leader . |
7 | It is very well served for public transport and is one of the few places in this book where a private car is not essential . |
8 | Stutchbury 's journal contains important observations on coral reefs and is one of the few detailed accounts of the early pearling industry in the Tuamotus . |
9 | He later became the senior trainer , served the Palace under ten managers and was one of a few staff left at Selhurst during World War Two . |
10 | Having known the Royal Family all her life , she was easy to talk to , and was one of the few people who knew what Diana was talking about when she spoke about her day-to-day life . |
11 | Hamad Hasan al-Harash , for example , was a senior official in the Agriculture Department in Kufra ( Zawiya ) , had two well-established irrigated gardens worked by Egyptian labourers in 1975–9 , and was one of the few people who supplied fruit and vegetables to the Kufra market on a regular basis . |
12 | He was Surveyor to Eton College 's Chalk Farm Estate , and was one of the few architects working in an Elizabethan style at that time . |
13 | Livée played the spinet and was one of the few women in France to have mastered the analytical geometry of René Descartes . |
14 | Duncan Campbell Macewan , who for ten years had managed a sheep station in Australia bigger than Islay , had come home and claimed he was the oldest feuer in Bowmore and was one of the few whose feu was for life " while water runs and grass grows , " When the chairman asked " Do you suffer from late harvests ? " he was told " Sometimes , not very often . " |
15 | Duncan Campbell Macewan , who for ten years had managed a sheep station in Australia bigger than Islay , had come home and claimed he was the oldest feuer in Bowmore and was one of the few whose feu was for life " while water runs and grass grows , " When the chairman asked " Do you suffer from late harvests ? " he was told " Sometimes , not very often . " |
16 | It was easily accessible from the Awash railway station and was one of the few areas in Abyssinia where wild animals survived in any number . |