Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] the few " in BNC.
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| 1 | The legislation protects their consciences , and in charity makes financial provision for the few priests who will feel that they must leave . |
| 2 | There is no such thing , mind you , as private property for nine tenths of the population : its existence for the few is solely due to its non-existence for those nine tenths . |
| 3 | Aircraft for the Few . |
| 4 | AIRCRAFT FOR THE FEW by Michael Bowyer is probably one of the most comprehensive accounts yet published of all the operational types to see RAF service during the Battle of Britain . |
| 5 | Soon Downes had reached the last carriage , in front of the diesel locomotive , staring quickly through the windows of the compartment as the few doors still remaining open were banged shut and a whistle blew , and with a slight chug and then with a mighty heave the long , north-bound train began slowly to move forward , gradually picking up a little speed , before moving out and away along the curving stretch of line that led to Banbury . |
| 6 | Her slogan is : ‘ we aim to create the arts as a service for the many as opposed to a luxury for the few ’ . |
| 7 | If Eliot largely renounced his interest in childhood and in anthropology during the few years that followed , he gave up neither entirely . |
| 8 | By a conservative appraisal of the few data at hand , she was an engineering success . |
| 9 | Estimates of the effect of the few Concordes currently in operation are that they have a negligible impact on the ozone layer . |
| 10 | These changes would drive savings overseas and make wealth again the prerogative of the few . |
| 11 | However , the Junkers , instead of facing up to the industrial , economic and social changes that were sweeping Europe , preferred instead to set about the ruthless suppression of any and every gesture of sympathy for the French revolutionaries , and they took military action against the few tiny peeps of protest that emanated from Pomerania . |
| 12 | He admitted the murder in the few words he spoke to the people . |
| 13 | Further west , nitrogens in the few crops of Puffin barley so far harvested are said to be on the low side . |
| 14 | I have personal doubts on the few modular courses I know well . |
| 15 | Decent people who are sick and tired of the criminal activities of the few deserve a much better portrayal by the national media and more support from Government . |
| 16 | At the instigation of the Greenock Deaf and Dumb Christian Society , the authorities in Greenock , Scotland , approved the use of a room in Greenock Academy ( opened 1855 ) for the teaching of the few deaf children in the town . |
| 17 | The Profitboss steers clear of such indulgence , for in the end everyone pays dearly for the privilege of the few . |
| 18 | The Report failed to specify the conditions under which the past experience of the few might be safe ground on which to shape the future experience of every child and teacher in the country . |
| 19 | She also sewed clothes for toys and puppets , tiny dresses and jackets for anthropomorphic bears and monkeys and robes and mantles in silks and velvets for the few puppets they sold in the shop and gowns and breeches for the tall puppets who performed in the theatre . |
| 20 | BONN — As the net of restrictions which prevents East Germans leaving their country grows tighter , the flow of refugees through the few remaining gaps continues steadily , writes Patricia Clough . |
| 21 | Some people did expect an awful lot from those youngsters for the few shillings they paid them . |
| 22 | She had , apparently , spent little of the money on herself , had been a dependable benefactress of the few eccentric charities of which she approved , had remembered them in her will , but without egregious generosity , and had left the residue of her estate to him without explanation , admonition or peculiar protestations of affection , although he had no doubt that the words ‘ my dearly beloved nephew ’ meant exactly what they said . |
| 23 | The Medau Society was formed in 1952 to link together the growing number of people throughout Britain interested in Medau Rhythmic Movement , and to train part-time teachers to supplement the work of the few German trained teachers . |
| 24 | Britain is at the stage when we must no longer expect sections of our land to be retained for the benefit of the few , when they could be used to provide jobs for the many . |
| 25 | As my hon. Friend the Member for Oldham , West said , by the end of the decade , they will unilaterally have slashed £12 billion from the value of SERPS , transferring funds paid in by all of us for the future into private funds run solely for the benefit of the few . |
| 26 | Paying off the debt meant cutting consumption at home of the few things which were imported and almost anything which might be exported . |
| 27 | Invitations come via playgroups but parents of the few children who do not attend one can contact the headteacher , Margaret Sutton , at the school . |
| 28 | It might have been my colleague Ann — who knew my whereabouts — or even my editor , come to congratulate me on the first pages of Lover at the Gate which I had faxed through from the hotel 's secretariat — or even Sophie , come to apologize , though I hardly imagined she had been promoted from child to lady in the few weeks of my absence . |
| 29 | The deterioration in my companion 's movements in the few weeks since I had last seen him was distressing to observe . |
| 30 | It became known that we were perilously short of hay because the haytiming on our pastures had been very poor that summer and it was impossible to bring enough in on the horse-drawn sledge on the few occasions we were able to get out . |