Example sentences of "[art] [adv] few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Tanzania is one of the very few countries in Africa that broadcasts in only one African language plus that of the former colonial power . |
| 32 | When the old Roman city was revived and became London again , from the late ninth century on , one of its prime functions in the eyes of King Alfred and his successors was as a bulwark against the Danes ; his boroughs had a major defensive role to play , and London was the greatest of them — one of the very few cities of this age which came wholly to fill a Roman enceinte . |
| 33 | The very few editorials included were largely confined to discussing technical matters of scholarship , and the Review did not , in general , speak out directly on wider cultural political issues . |
| 34 | The Dornoch Firth is one of the very few areas around the British Isles given a Grade A classification for shellfish purity . |
| 35 | It is one of the very few institutions where the shared goals overcome nationalist or racial considerations . |
| 36 | The very few times an accurate cross goes in its nothing to do with planning … just the law of averages and that s helped by the fact they normally have more than 2 people heading into the box . |
| 37 | He must have been a natural for the job , being one of the very few Greeks with an appropriate qualification . |
| 38 | In 1668 he was elected a fellow of the Royal Society , becoming thereby one of the very few businessmen in that body . |
| 39 | It is one of the very few creatures in the world that can kill by electrocution . |
| 40 | Salt was one of the very few necessaries of life that could not be produced anywhere and had to be transported from the centres of production on the sea coasts , on tidal rivers , and from certain inland centres . |
| 41 | Of the very few things that were her own , her chastity mattered most . |
| 42 | Although it appears that sentencing became more severe during the first three years the guide-lines were in use , Minnesota remains one of the very few states that has avoided huge increases in prison population size ( Parent 1988 ) . |
| 43 | Giller and Twomey reason that their river seemed more severely affected than the very few others ever studied . |
| 44 | Richter is one of the very few artists making recordings of standard repertoire who are so awe-inspiring in their comprehensiveness that the long list of comparative versions becomes a virtual irrelevance . |
| 45 | Now we 're one of the very few companies that will pay weekly commissions on a commission only basis . |
| 46 | Perhaps the most famous incumbent of Stanton Lacy is poor Robert Foulkes , who was one of the very few clergymen ever to have been executed for murder . |
| 47 | Though wounded seventeen times , he was one of the very few aces to survive the war . |
| 48 | The car was parked neatly between two patches of off-street parking , in one of the very few parts of the street that was neither metered nor dedicated to residents ' parking . |
| 49 | Moreover , it was these official publications which were responsible for employing the very few Africans who gained journalistic and editorial experience . |
| 50 | There will be the very few exceptions . |
| 51 | The only thing you have to be careful of is that the hardcard is thin enough not to obscure too many of the very few slots that the 2000 series has . |
| 52 | Of the very few banners that mentioned it , one from Moscow University called pointedly for ‘ a faster rate of democratisation of the party ’ . |
| 53 | The architect , Bogdan Bogdanovic , whose entire career has been devoted to the tragic commemoration of war victims , is one of the very few Serbians brave enough to speak out against the current Serbian aggression . |
| 54 | He was one of the very few men of science who gave a welcome , albeit qualified , to Vestiges ( 1844 ) presumably because he could see the wood for the trees ; but when the Origin of Species came out in 1859 he disliked it heartily , and became one of the most formidable opponents of Darwin and Huxley . |
| 55 | As Frances Power Cobbe observed , the doctor assumed a position of great importance in the middle class household and was indeed one of the very few men of her own class that the married middle class woman dealt with directly ; while to doctors , middle class female patients represented a lucrative source of income . |
| 56 | The start of this session was one of the very few occasions when we specifically told the pupils how to conduct part of an activity . |
| 57 | This , as one of the very few occasions , when , during a meeting , the girls did not sit traditionally silent or whisper amongst themselves . |
| 58 | They did not pause on her arrival , though Alix , ever polite , waved obliquely to welcome her back : watching them , it occurred to Liz that perhaps in all the years they had all known one another , this was one of the very few occasions on which they had all been in the same room . |
| 59 | The Geological Survey was one of the very few organizations employing men of science in Britain — Greenwich Observatory was one of the others — but their status was about that of clerks in the Civil Service , and this rankled . |
| 60 | As the hon. Gentleman knows , we have put in place arrangements under which , in the very few markets that the private sector does not accept , reinsurance can be provided through ECGD . |