Example sentences of "[verb] on the few " in BNC.
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| 1 | In order to understand the press reporting of rape trials we need to concentrate on the few cases which got enormous publicity in 1985 . |
| 2 | Scholz was wearing that wise , reflective look that pipe-smokers get or act on the few occasions their pipes are working well . |
| 3 | Her lovely face came before his eyes and he thought how beautifully she had played on the few occasions she had come down here with him . |
| 4 | There also seem to have been considerable baseline imbalances in the trial reported by Kinmond and colleagues , judged on the few characteristics described in table I , and so the same concerns must apply . |
| 5 | Even when they are provided for it usually amounts to their being dumped on the few professionals from black and ethnic groups . |
| 6 | The interest is simply focused on the few individuals who commit several serious atrocities . |
| 7 | Police intervention provoked allegations of brutality , but media coverage focused on the few police injuries , underemphasised the extent of police aggression and exaggerated the women 's part in the violence . |
| 8 | Growth from 1851 to 1911 was concentrated on the few urban industrial regions in which an increasing proportion of the population lived ; these experienced both net immigration and natural increase . |
| 9 | We called out from where we hid in different rooms and listened to our voices echo , we strummed on the few keys left on a rotting piano , and plucked at a broken lute … . |
| 10 | ‘ As I told you , I did n't go out much when I worked in London , but I 've got a silk dress which I wore on the few times I went to the opera . |
| 11 | He was 128th in driving accuracy , 180th in sand saves , 192nd , which is to say dead last , in sub-par holes ( percentage of eagles and birdies ) , 191st ( or second-to-last ) in scoring average , dead last in both putting on the few greens he hit in regulation and in total putts ( which means that when he missed a green , he seldom got it up and down ) , and dead last again in shooting birdies on par-3s , par-4s and par-5s . |
| 12 | Education should only be bestowed on the few . |