Example sentences of "[prep] the few [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is one of the few Lakeland crags to face due north and receives virtually no sun whatsoever . |
| 2 | This is not really suited for binocular observation , but it is one of the few Mira variables easily found with binoculars when near maximum . |
| 3 | It was one of the few BBC radio shows which played to full houses . |
| 4 | By then , however , he was alienated by the Rump 's lukewarm attitude to religious and civil reform , and when Oliver Cromwell expelled it he was one of the few London aldermen who approved . |
| 5 | Mr Keane is one of the few Ireland players to have won over 50 caps . |
| 6 | times Snaith was a busy port with a harbour and ferry across the river to Selby , one of the few Aire crossings in the area . |
| 7 | Nineteenth-century specialist François Perreau-Saussine of Galerie du Carrousel has dropped in , together with Nicolas Joly from Galerie Yves Mikaeloff who is presenting ten pre-cubist and cubist drawings by Andre Mare alongside seventeenth- and eighteenth-century works , including an early La Hyre and one of the few Nicolas Mignards still to be found outside the Louvre . |
| 8 | Coda Inc currently has seven offices in the US , and saw sales increase 49% to $10.6m , which , Turner reckons , makes it one of the few UK companies to have succeeded in such a notoriously dangerous market . |
| 9 | Dill , the ‘ boarded meeting place ’ , was one of the few Sussex hundreds that seems to have had any accommodation specially provided ; what effect the winter conditions had on the conducting of business can only be imagined . |
| 10 | It is one of the few Cryptocorynes capable of growing in alkaline conditions . |
| 11 | Estimates of the effect of the few Concordes currently in operation are that they have a negligible impact on the ozone layer . |
| 12 | As one of the few Gloucestershire cloth mills still in operation , may it long continue . |
| 13 | The best track on the record is ‘ Nanna 's Lied ’ , one of the few Brecht settings Weill composed in the USA , and intended to have piano accompaniment . |
| 14 | As You Like It does n't even have the cinematic crutches of the few Shakespeare movies that have worked — no Henry V trench-warfare here . |
| 15 | Dagenham , which is currently scheduled to produce 1,100 cars a day , is one of the few Ford plants in Europe where output is not planned to increase . |
| 16 | Dessie Farrell , one of the few Dublin players to emerge from last with his reputation intact , is back in the side today after being absent for two months through injury . |
| 17 | He still has many supporters , though , among the Western press , who considered him to be one of the few UN bureaucrats with a habit of telling the truth . |
| 18 | That evening revealed a petulance Hugh Paddick had not known before , but which would become quite familiar to the few Williams intimates . |
| 19 | Even today weather reports are sometimes incorrect owing to the vagaries of our climate , but then , with the whole of western Europe blanked out ( thanks to Hitler ) , together with most of Ireland , we were very dependent on the few Atlantic weather ships and ( eventually ) our own trained eyes to tell us what was coming . |
| 20 | Among the few Standish neighbours on the row is Eric , long gone from the closet and married to Stevie , a he-man former semi-film-star , whom he eventually stabs . |
| 21 | The tourist or business or conference traveller will more often than not travel on a plane manufactured by one of the few aerospace TNCs that dominate the civil airline industry , occupy a hotel room subcontracted to or owned or managed by the local affiliate of one of the few chains that dominate the global hotel industry , hire a car from an agency of one of the international firms that dominate the car rental industry , and will pay for all this with one of the credit cards issued by the few TNCs that control global personal finance . |