Example sentences of "the few [noun] of [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Below and above him were overhangs ; he had lost all his equipment ; the few inches of rock beneath his feet threatened to crumble away ; a blizzard tore at him constantly ; his situation was entirely hopeless . |
| 2 | This willingness to forgive past wrongs is one of the few signs of hope for this benighted province ; but it is not enough to bring peace . |
| 3 | The silver-haired Dubcek was one of the few figures of authority in Slovakia . |
| 4 | Even the few pots of make-up on the blue-flowered dressing table seemed to be standing to attention . |
| 5 | These Bible stories must be one of the few sources of information about dreaming made available during the course of our children 's education . |
| 6 | In a recent book , a German scholar , Konrad Dilger , mounts a sustained attack on the Kanunname as a document of the period of Mehmed II ; and , as the Kanunname is one of the few sources of information about the ulema in the early period , his remarks deserve serious attention in the present study . |
| 7 | ‘ Largo II ’ by Jan Sluijter , recently on loan to the Stedelijk Museum , is one of the few examples of Futurism in his work ( est . |
| 8 | By then , though , many communities had their clubs and institutes , among the few places of pleasure on their barren landscape , or miners ' " casinos ' , as one aggrieved Durham clergyman called them . |
| 9 | It seems to have been this last line which caused the editors of the Annotated Index to the Cantos of Ezra Pound to provide one of the few pieces of misinformation in that admirable work . |