Example sentences of "[am/are] [prep] [art] few " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( These ‘ butler 's pantry ’ sinks are worth a few bob these days , either to the dockland yuppies doing up houses Jack the Ripper would n't have been seen dead in , or to amateur photographers who use them in their darkrooms . |
| 2 | Things will seem far worse than they actually are for a few days — but once the drama dies down you 'll see you 're in a fine position after all . |
| 3 | People said it was painted by " the students " — they 're among the few willing takers who get homes on hard-to-let estates — who sound like Siberian exiles doing good works among the peasants . |
| 4 | Lash and Urry are amongst the few commentators we have reviewed who recognise that the middle classes are those best able to indulge in , and benefit by , this emergent form of culture . |
| 5 | The Thermai is only 80 metres from the centre of town and both Old Rhodes Town and the nightlife are within a few minutes walk . |
| 6 | Those coming in from the sea do the same thing in reverse , leaving the wheel with a sideways dive when they are within a few yards of their nest-hole . |
| 7 | Many of these organisations are within a few minutes of the King 's Buildings . |
| 8 | This imagery is even more extraordinary when one considers that in this country , the Christian Churches are among the few places of worship where women can go whether they are menstruating or not . |
| 9 | It was built in 876 , and those ancient parts of the church that remain are among the few fragments from that time that still exist , not only in Milan , but also in Lombardy . |
| 10 | Handicrafts are among the few activities that employ Indians on their reservations . |
| 11 | Arctic char Salvelinus alpinus , which spawn in rivers and fatten in the sea during their fourth and fifth years , capelin Mallotus villosus , which winter in deep water but rise to form huge surface shoals in summer , and arctic cod Boreogadus saida are among the few pelagic , plankton-feeding fish in both polar and subpolar waters . |
| 12 | Blowflies , psillid bugs and bumblebees are among the few that winter as adults , seeking sheltered corners under rocks and vegetation , close to the soil and under an insulating layer of snow . |
| 13 | Too few mass literacy campaigns have even acknowledged this fact ; Grenada , Zimbabwe and Burkina Faso are among the few exceptions . |
| 14 | If you are among the few unlucky ones and would like to try an alternative attack — please get in touch with me . |
| 15 | Larger marine creatures certain to suffer include porpoises and sea snakes , the bottlenose and humpback dolphin , the green and hawksbill turtles , which lay their eggs on tiny Gulf islands , and , most worryingly , the dugong , or sea cow , a relatively rare marine mammal , whose colonies in the Gulf are among the few remaining in the world . |