Example sentences of "[adj] of the few " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ All About Eve ’ and ‘ Kennedy ’ , are some of the few examples ) and even after more than 50 lyrical outings , the one-track mind persists . |
| 2 | Some of the few inspiring things in the whole gallery come from the 1951 Festival Of Britain exhibition . |
| 3 | Some of the few studies that have taken account of gender suggest that Afro-Caribbean girls are achieving higher levels than boys at school level , partly because they are pursuing different strategies , which are necessary in order to survive in the context of high unemployment and low wages for black male workers ( Fuller , 1983 ; see also Riley , 1986 ; Driver , 1977 ) . |
| 4 | I once watched a television documentary about St Kilda , during which they interviewed some of the few people living who had been born and had spent their youth on the island . |
| 5 | The Dolphin , the Bermuda Suite , Club 93 , the Bingo hall , a large swimming pool , a Sports hall , Amusements , these are just some of the few things that are situated at Highfield Holiday Park , Clacton , where my family and I have been going on Holiday for 10 years . |
| 6 | Others who also cared that some of the few remaining oak trees would be felled , stone walls and hedges destroyed , and that the dippers on this stretch of the river Dee would be driven off by low flying golf balls , ducked the issue and remained silent . |
| 7 | Um and erm that might be that 's one of th some of the few things that the library 's got but erm er anyway . |
| 8 | We sat on a tree that had been felled and ate some very tasty ham sandwiches -one of the few picnics I have ever been to . |
| 9 | Fixed enemy guns fired a shell every two or three minutes on each of the few well-known routes with the accuracy of long practice . |
| 10 | He also sent him some of his famed fake letters in the name of ‘ Edna Welthorpe ’ — a character he invented for his own fun and that of the few chosen intimates who were allowed to receive them . |
| 11 | The barman brought over their hot toddies and Roy was glad of the few seconds ' reprieve . |
| 12 | They had made sure of the few proprietors between there and Dunkeld ; the Duke of Atholl 's authority was weaker here ; tomorrow would be the hard day when they made a drive up to Moulin and Faskally : perhaps they should go and terrify them now while darkness made them lonely ? |
| 13 | Working with environmentalist groups , the Guarani Indians argue that Brazil can not afford to lose any more of the few remaining areas of Atlantic rainforest , of which only 5 per cent is intact . |
| 14 | The first of the few blocks that can be used in competition to be considered are the slapping blocks . |
| 15 | The message of The First of the Few ( 1942 , Spitfire in the US ) , a biopic of the life of R. J. Mitchell , is that the Spitfire was made possible by one man taking on short-sighted business executives and parsimonious government authorities . |
| 16 | The 1942 film , ’ The First of the Few ’ starring Leslie Howard as the designer , told a slightly different story , suggesting he was inspired to design the Sptifire by watching seagulls wheeling in the air . |
| 17 | Additionally , the cataloguer will be sure to make comparisons , which will be useful to the reader , for the format is one of the few in which a generous number of illustrations can be included . |
| 18 | That is a fact , he wrote ( and Goldberg typed ) , one of the few facts I can swear to , though I find it impossible to explain . |
| 19 | This has been the experience of the Thirties Society in fighting for the retention of the main plan features of the Nag 's Head , one of the few listed pubs of the period . |
| 20 | ‘ Really , ’ exclaimed in heavily scandalized tones one of the few other passengers braving the last gusts of a salt-laden sirocco up on deck , an Englishwoman in an ample frock loud with different coloured daisies . |
| 21 | Festivals are one of the few opportunities in the UK for screening short films , and we will be presenting not just this year 's BFI New Directors shorts , but also programmes of short films from film schools in the UK and Canada , from the Arts Council funded schemes and films funded by the filmmakers themselves . |
| 22 | The screening will follow a Guardian Talk with Lynda La Plante , one of the few women to have established herself in television drama as a writer . |
| 23 | I do n't care what you say , they really are marvellous creatures and one of the few animals in God 's world that do absolutely nothing but good . |
| 24 | And Keith is one of the few Englishmen I know who really likes Spencer , the rest dismiss him as representative of an imperial , conservative , rural English idyll . |
| 25 | Discovered at one of the LTA 's 3 Star Clubs at King George 's Comprehensive school , by the father of local professional coach Harvey Slater ( who now coaches the youngster ) , Joanne , who is about to leave school for a year of full time playing , is one of the few British juniors who has the ability to ‘ kick ’ and break from the pack . |
| 26 | From Australia , former Woodworker editor , Peter Collenette sends a report on the Tasmanian furniture-maker , Alan Livermore , who is one of the few designer-makers to have his designs made in factories and in his own workshop . |
| 27 | One of the few recommendations of the Monopolies and Mergers Commission report of 1989 into the supply of beer that was adopted by the government was to bring tenants under the protection of the Landlord and Tenant Act . |
| 28 | Theirs was one of the few ale-only breweries in London at this time , most of the others producing huge amounts of porter for a voraciously thirsty market . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | He is one of the few people I have ever met who has never been either inflated or deflated by personal possessions . |