Example sentences of "[be] the [adj] few " in BNC.
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| 1 | These are the dedicated few who , week in , week out , come rain or snow , stare out of the clubhouse window at 22 diehards freezing their pads off for fun . |
| 2 | Then there are the lucky few who , every now and then , would splash out upwards of £1,000 on a single fish . |
| 3 | It is a completely unfounded fear , but even if there were the odd few cases of people refusing to rent out a room in their home because , in their ignorance , they felt that , as landlords , they would be penalised , are we seriously to argue that we should deny the discount to the other 7 million people ? |
| 4 | An exception to that is the past few years when we have made significant progress . |
| 5 | There 's the odd few that do n't get on with the teachers . |
| 6 | It 's the privileged few . |