Example sentences of "[prep] the few [noun pl] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Competition for the few places available is keen and a high academic standard is required . |
| 2 | One of the few things certain about the outlook is that 1993 will be a difficult year financially . |
| 3 | One of the few things predictable about future input technology is that it will include an optical scan element which will be at its best handling the output from IT related machines . |
| 4 | Nevertheless he is one of the few batsmen available to South Africa who has a proven record of being able to put big hundreds together and this is a prime requirement for Test match cricket . |
| 5 | On the contrary , one of the few broadcasters likely to use D2 MAC was recently shut down . |
| 6 | Trolls are not the only monsters to be found there , but they are one of the few creatures able to thrive in this grim and hostile land . |
| 7 | Rev. Dr. Ian Paisley of the Democratic Unionist Party was one of the few persons keen to help . |
| 8 | Relevant data are therefore difficult to identify and scenario building is one of the few approaches available . |
| 9 | His death in 1804 removed ‘ one of the few lives precious to mankind ’ , in the words of Thomas Jefferson , third president of the United States . |
| 10 | One of the few companies willing to talk about RFI is Foxbro , based in Massachusetts , which makes control equipment for petrochemical plants . |
| 11 | Gambon , 51 , is one of the few actors big enough to play the mountainous Maxwell . |
| 12 | Labour MP Chris Mullin , another leader in the Guildford Four case , said : ‘ He was one of the few judges willing to face the possibility that the system to which he had devoted his life was capable of making serious mistakes . ’ |
| 13 | The Israelis , fielding five international masters and two FIDE masters against Bayern 's six grandmasters , went down by the narrow margin of 7–5 after IM Leonid Zaid ( a recent arrival from the USSR and one of the few men alive with a plus score against Kasparov ) shocked the Germans by defeating Kindermann and Bischoff . |
| 14 | But Mr Swash said : ‘ These parties are one of the few occasions some people get out . |
| 15 | One of the few occasions big bream spend any length of time in marginal weed is the two or three weeks in spring or early summer when they spawn . |
| 16 | President , congress in the few minutes available to me this afternoon to speak to my written report I want to touch on three issues . |
| 17 | Third , there was the severe deterioration of industrial relations in the few years prior to 1914 which brought with it violent strikes and syndicalism . |
| 18 | An estimate of numbers was impossible in the few seconds available at the pause , but on the return journey , about an hour later , something had awakened them and a most spectacular aerial display was in progress — the two species had reacted differently to whatever had disturbed their siesta — the lapwing wheeling erratically just above ground level , but the ‘ goldies ’ in ever-changing smoke-like clouds high above , performing quick-change evolutions reminiscent of starlings going to roost . |
| 19 | Unknown to many of the trapped men , but suspected by the more experienced , poisonous gases had started to gather in the few roadways available to them . |
| 20 | Perhaps what the authorities need to consider in the few months available to them is just when a decision needs to be made . |
| 21 | There is paper everywhere , some spread all around the office in every conceivable place and untidily on the few shelves available . |
| 22 | The three service chiefs were among the few officers unaffected . |
| 23 | At the show I was disappointed by the few craftsmen apparent and felt that the show was overly commercial and really the domain of the equipment seller , indeed the price for the floor space and stands etc. would almost guarantee this . |