Example sentences of "[prep] the few [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the few people on low incomes who do have credit , paying it off tends to soak up more of their budget than for people with higher incomes . |
| 2 | Afterwards Martha provided ham and a salad with hard-boiled eggs like gleaming bald heads sticking out from limp lettuce leaves for the few people who turned up . |
| 3 | In Maymyo I was at first rather at a loose end , for most of the civilian families had left , and the Establishment chaplain was there to carry on the church services and to look after the few people left . |
| 4 | MAPLE trees , just now unfurling their leaves , are one of the few species known not by their common name but the official botanical one . |
| 5 | In the nests of the few species that feed exclusively on carrion , the queen cells and food storage cells are much the same size . |
| 6 | Of the few species that do have the opportunity to interbreed , none do so frequently . |
| 7 | And I know I was madly , madly involved with the symphony to the extent that when it was done — and it is one of the few works I say this of — I would not dare touch it again . |
| 8 | One of the few works in colour is York 's very own Christ Stilleth the Tempest ( 1852 ) , while the rest of the show is a selection of some 104 out of 156 etchings and mezzotints . |
| 9 | A shoal makes an impressive sight , especially as they are one of the few catfish active by day . |
| 10 | By a conservative appraisal of the few data at hand , she was an engineering success . |
| 11 | Art is one of the few means left of making contact with an essentially ‘ good ’ nature . |
| 12 | Representatives of the few people they had come to know in the course of their wanderings round the world were left to clear up . |
| 13 | He is one of the few people I have ever met who has never been either inflated or deflated by personal possessions . |
| 14 | Sylvia is one of the few people who has learnt to interpret Elaine 's noises . |
| 15 | He was a trusted friend and one of the few people ever to have been in the Prince 's employ who spoke frankly to him , and when asked would give an honest , if sometimes unwelcome , opinion . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | People bought her lunch and rang her up and sent her birthday cards ; it seemed a particularly cruel joke that one of the few people who really did dislike her should be married to her . |
| 19 | She was one of the few people in the world who genuinely found Henry funny . |
| 20 | Should we listen to the few objections of the few people affected ? |
| 21 | And because he was slightly dim , or at least vulnerable and kind and easily led , being one of the few people I could mock and dominate with impunity , we became mates . |
| 22 | I 'm one of the few people who can really claim to have gone with Noakes . ’ |
| 23 | I was one of the few people who understood him . ’ |
| 24 | Despite their differences and Leopold 's difficult and austere character , his father 's death robbed Wolfgang of a most loving and tender parent , and of one of the few people who genuinely appreciated and fully comprehended the nature of his genius . |
| 25 | When Karen met Robert , teased by his description of himself as ‘ one of the few people who has never seen the ‘ Sound of Music ’ , she thought ‘ nice … |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Bill Rathje , a professor of archaeology at the University of Arizona , is one of the few people who has burrowed into America 's landfills and weighed and measured their contents — a treatment usually reserved for the dustbins of rock stars . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |