Example sentences of "[art] few [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Introduced in the UK last autumn , GRID is one of the few new cushioning ideas to hit the market in recent times . |
| 2 | The few first letter errors which do occur are in words with silent consonants , for example know and write . |
| 3 | The light , full and smooth , lay like a gold rind over the turf , the furze and yew bushes , the few wind-stunted thorn trees . |
| 4 | Now Fergie junior , one of the few real success in United 's so-far disastrous Premier League start , has come through the toughest test any youngster can undergo — pleasing his father . |
| 5 | With the careful selection of the roles , he is also one of the few major screen actors able to alter his identity from part to part — and one Jack Nicholson performance is usually vastly different to the next — yet retaining the kind of personal stamp that attracts the criticism : ‘ Oh , it 's just Jack Nicholson playing himself again . ’ |
| 6 | RIGHT : Churchs Mill at Woodchester , one of the few surviving stick manufacturers in the county . |
| 7 | All too soon , bands find that their wish has been fulfilled ! one of the few successful publicity ploys involved Elvis Costello being arrested for creating a disturbance outside the Hilton Hotel in London 's park Lane . |
| 8 | Gold output is one of the few remaining state economic secrets . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | In one of the few remaining parking spaces she pulled up . |
| 11 | After some brief editing , Reference vinyl master discs are made on the company 's own lathe before being sent to one of the few remaining specialist pressing plants in the US . |
| 12 | She wandered through to the study and whiled away ten minutes putting in the few remaining border pieces . |
| 13 | Hawkinge is one of the few remaining Battle of Britain airfields and is under threat from the developers , with the possibility of several hundred houses being built between the existing Battle of Britain Museum and the well-known gap on the cliffs overlooking Folkestone . |
| 14 | It is keen to stress that it is ‘ one of the few remaining brokerage houses that are genuinely independent ’ . |
| 15 | Yet the Empire which the British Navy defended , and which made Britain an Asiatic power , or a world power , or indeed a power at all , was not the few million kith and kin living in North America or in Australasia or mingling with the Dutch in South Africa . |
| 16 | By his appointment as permanent under-secretary of state for the colonies in 1956 , he became one of the few overseas service officers to assume the top post . |
| 17 | Amory , a likeable and popular man , had been one of the few Conservative MP 's to be active in the campaign to end capital punishment in the late 1940s . |
| 18 | The event is one of the few open squash tournaments in the country and was once again won by Peter Marshall , Britain 's number one player . |
| 19 | It has often occurred in the fields of social security and local government , in which the few local authority victories in the courts have proved extremely short lived . |
| 20 | The Times Higher Education Supplement began an editorial on the CNAA in 1972 with the statement : ‘ The Council for National Academic Awards must be one of the few unqualified success stories in higher education in the past eight years — sharing that honour perhaps with the Open University ’ . |
| 21 | The few short railway lines of southern Africa were galvanized into rapid growth by the discovery of diamonds and gold between 1869 and 1885 . |
| 22 | Lamb House , Rye , in East Sussex is one of the few National Trust houses that are let to private tenants . |
| 23 | Throughout that decade Vox were one of the few British guitar ‘ names ’ , and certain models from that era have become much sought-after by collectors . |
| 24 | The Playhouse Gallery , one of the few public art galleries in the area , is commited to showing a wide range of fine and applied art as well as documentary exhibition . |
| 25 | It Germanised the few Polish street , town and place names , undertook propagandist ‘ research work ’ on historical subjects , supervised the Germanising of family names among those Poles who decided to take the plunge into German identity , took down Polish-language warning notices about venereal diseases from public toilets and instituted a system of bonuses for all teachers and civil servants prepared to move and settle in the eastern provinces . |
| 26 | Critical acclaim also had a pleasant ring to it , with phrases extolling his virtues such as ‘ one of the few gifted movie actors we have ’ and ‘ a superb performance ’ . |
| 27 | His father was a California shaper and Richie was one of the few top ASP surfers who shaped his own boards . |
| 28 | Not only through the cavorting about but by excruciatingly pretentious rave-speak between songs , a few pointless samples , a few pointless keyboard squiggles and a bit of pointless scratching from the sadly redundant DJ . |
| 29 | So your ideal system would have been to have a few strategic Cabinet committees beneath the Cabinet that would have done all the most controversial business ? |
| 30 | A few remaining palm trees clad in white coral dust looked ghostly in the moonlight . |