Example sentences of "was [adj] [prep] [art] few [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was short of a few quid to do anything about it so my mate lent me the money , we went to a scrap yard , picked up a spare and he delivered me back here in his motor , then your chaps picked me up . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | She was one of the few people in the world who genuinely found Henry funny . |
| 6 | I was one of the few people who understood him . ’ |
| 7 | The head was away and that was dreadful because he was one of the few people that knew what was going on because the community adviser told him that home/school links was an area that we should think about ; that is the school . |
| 8 | As Wayne Gossage has said : " Patricia Knapp was one of the few people in the inner circle of the library-college vanguard who was in any way critical " ( Gossage 1975 : 8 ) and this has been a sad weakness in a movement which , with its enthusiasm and provocative reversal of traditional priorities , has aroused much interest and thought amongst educators , librarians and administrators . |
| 9 | She was one of the few people who had no fear of him , even her Chief Constable would be shocked if he heard the way she argued with him sometimes . |
| 10 | In the last years she was one of the few people to visit her in her room . |
| 11 | And she suddenly realized that Derek Fairfax was one of the few people who would view matters in the same light as her . |
| 12 | She was one of the few people in Iran who dared speak her mind to him ( perhaps the sole person ) , but what was on her mind was not to everyone 's liking . |
| 13 | She was one of the few people who rose early in the morning to greet him on his release from prison in 1897 . |
| 14 | Cos I had studied the chart to k know something about er and I I presume I was one of the few people in New York , who knew the damn thing was on 's Island you see . |
| 15 | For a few seconds that stony-visaged politician looked kindly and I realised that , apart from his mistress , Benjamin was one of the few people Wolsey really loved . |
| 16 | Zaria was one of the few people who could control her when she had the moods . ’ |
| 17 | He was trained at the École Nationale d'Administration , which is the national administration training school , and in fact at the École Polytechnique as well , which is , so he was one of the few people who went through both the elite training establishments , and he served as a civil servant for a while before turning to political life and getting elected as a Member of Parliament . |