Example sentences of "[art] few [noun] [Wh det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is believed to be one of the few parasites which has become free-living . |
| 2 | Wagstaff argues that the few studies which do appear to show modest improvement in recall under hypnosis failed to have control groups which were equally encouraged to remember . |
| 3 | Furthermore , this is one of the few studies which gives an account of the feelings after the task was completed . |
| 4 | The few studies which found some relationship had to resort to extensive and differing lag structures , using interest rates which hardly reflected the rates most companies have to pay for borrowing . |
| 5 | The chronology of the decline of the gold content ( % au ) can be established by analysing the few coins which bear the names of kings ( listed above ) and so can be dated . |
| 6 | The weakness in passenger traffic , which fell 8 p.c last year , and operating losses have not prevented the airline from launching the most successful expansion programme among European airlines so far , in a bid to be among the few groups which are expected to survive deregulation over the next few years . |
| 7 | Holland is one of the few countries which practices a hotel grading system ranging from 1 to 5 stars . |
| 8 | Her world had shrunk to the few things which still had interest for her . |
| 9 | Paying off the debt meant cutting consumption at home of the few things which were imported and almost anything which might be exported . |
| 10 | Of course , these are not the abilities which we pride ourselves upon , and we are much more likely to be impressed by the few things which computers do well which we do badly . |
| 11 | We charge the highest rate in the country for issuing fire certificates which is one of the few things which we 're actually allowed to charge , and we charge more than virtually any other authority in this country . |
| 12 | The few states which actually measured what was happening to landfill capacity reported that it was increasing , in some cases because more waste was being diverted to recycling or waste-to-energy plants . |
| 13 | Stereo sound , which can be dubbed separately , is available on the few machines which feature the alternative PCM system of audio recording . |
| 14 | The ancient Forest of Naddle , with deciduous trees , is one of the few areas which remain to show the natural tree growth of the region . |
| 15 | The few areas which had escaped collectivization because they seemed too poor were now to be brought into line . |
| 16 | In fact Peasgood suggests , in one of the few surveys which have been carried out in this area , that selection in academic libraries from the ‘ book in hand ’ was found to be no more effective than selection from lists ( effectiveness being measured in terms of subsequent issues ) . |
| 17 | And while some ‘ designer names ’ have traded their integrity for the financial rewards of supplying a mass market , Christian Dior is among the few companies which has remained true to the stylish vision of its founder . |
| 18 | According to Fidelity — one of the few companies which is to date offering these funds — the yield on its Tax Free Income Plan ( a unit trust comprising 51 per cent equities and 49 per cent bonds ) will fall from about 6 per cent now to 5.75 per cent after 5 April . |
| 19 | In order to understand the press reporting of rape trials we need to concentrate on the few cases which got enormous publicity in 1985 . |
| 20 | In his amateur days he was an ‘ eviction technician ’ ( a fashionable euphemism for bouncer ) but such work is regarded as unseemly for the standard bearer of a sport which prides itself in its healthy clean-living image , and he now supplements his income from the few competitions which pay more than a pittance by personal appearances . |
| 21 | Information is one of the few products which the West can sell to the Far East . |
| 22 | One of the few complaints which I would make is that the actor looks much too spruce for someone who is living rough in every sense of the word — forever dossing down in stations and trains and consuming endless quantities of the most vicious liquors . |
| 23 | And rather alarmingly in a third , she lay flat on the balustrade of the gallery with one leg pointing towards a portrait of the Duke of Wellington who , with Lord Palmerston , was one of the few statesmen whose private life had been sufficiently scandalous to qualify him to be a ffeatherstonehaugh hero . |
| 24 | It is one of the few diseases which medicine could attack before the Second World War , by passive immunization . |
| 25 | If , in addition to the few notes which I have taken the liberty of enclosing , you feel that you need any advice , then please ask for it . |
| 26 | He is one of the few writers whose books are read and loved by people in the East and the West . |
| 27 | The hotel , catering and tourist industry is the second largest employer in the United Kingdom , a major contributor to the balance of payments , and one of the few industries which is showing , and will continue to show , real growth . |
| 28 | But the first real headhunting boom began in the late 1970s and early 1980s , when the recession really began to bite ; executive search may be seen as one of the few industries which grew in this period . |
| 29 | As he left the house Huy glanced around the square , and along the streets that led from it ; but there was no movement at any of the few windows which looked on to the street , and the handful of people about were all familiar to him . |
| 30 | The few models which have been developed to date may have been correct as far as they go but are clearly incomplete . |