Example sentences of "[prep] the few [noun pl] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I ca n't say as much for the few farmers I 've met — always with the exception of Mr Jarvis , of course . |
| 2 | ‘ The frets were one of the few things I actually bought for the guitar . |
| 3 | Er , one of the paradoxes of the modern era as er , pointed out by Tom Peters , not by me , one of the few things I do not claim original thought on , erm , is , is that it 's not that we , people think that we do n't have enough information at our fingertips and are constantly striving to gather more and more , the opposite is actually true . |
| 4 | And your cousin was one of the first one of the few women I ever knew , who could take shorthand in Welsh . |
| 5 | One of the few skills I possess is the ability to type with ten fingers . |
| 6 | In fact , it was one of the few times I had seen him act in a civil way towards his stepmother . |
| 7 | He knew I worked with Malcolm because he was one of the few teachers I could have a conversation with about something more than homework or football . |
| 8 | And Keith is one of the few Englishmen I know who really likes Spencer , the rest dismiss him as representative of an imperial , conservative , rural English idyll . |
| 9 | Darts is one of the few sports I 've got the right build for . |
| 10 | ‘ He is one of the few teetotallers I know who can be entertaining after dinner . ’ |
| 11 | I say ‘ the wife ’ with impunity as Doreen is one of the few wives I know who actually calls herself that . |
| 12 | That is a fact , he wrote ( and Goldberg typed ) , one of the few facts I can swear to , though I find it impossible to explain . |
| 13 | Erm , so we are particularly pleased to have you here because we know as well that the G M B is in the forefront of erm establishing activity within Europe , one of , one of the few unions I think is that the only unions will have an office open in Brussels . |
| 14 | One of the few occasions I ever saw him and the only one in which we sat face to face . |
| 15 | We sat on a tree that had been felled and ate some very tasty ham sandwiches -one of the few picnics I have ever been to . |
| 16 | Apart from the few noises I made on the path , all I could hear was the very occasional and distant roar of heavy trucks on the road through town . |
| 17 | ‘ You managed to organize all this in the few minutes I was out there ? |
| 18 | I I did enjoy going to the city centre , but so far er in the few months I 've been in , I 've enjoyed it tremendously yes . |
| 19 | Particularly , ’ she added cuttingly , ‘ since the few days I have been here I have found disagreeable in the extreme . ’ |
| 20 | I sat around picking over the few facts I knew . |
| 21 | ‘ As I told you , I did n't go out much when I worked in London , but I 've got a silk dress which I wore on the few times I went to the opera . |
| 22 | As I understood , he was asleep for much of the time , and indeed , I found him so on the few occasions I had a spare moment to ascend to that little attic room . |
| 23 | On the few occasions I have met him it has been very difficult for me not to let slip something about you . |
| 24 | On the few occasions I did get some time off to go somewhere , there would be photographers everywhere , besieging me at the airport as if I was some international film star going to Hollywood . |
| 25 | ‘ Among the few books I took with me into the Desert was The Oxford Book of Modern Verse which you gave me . |