Example sentences of "[art] few [noun pl] in [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Among the few papers in his possession at the time of his death were some manuscript notes in which he was evidently attempting to develop his earlier skit , ‘ The Hopkin Syndicate ’ . |
| 2 | On the one hand , cognitive-behavioural interventions with a high turnover and short contact have yielded promising results in the few studies in which they have been attempted . |
| 3 | England is one of the few countries in which the legal tradition provides a test which can distinguish between the natural and the unnatural , the civilised and the barbarous . |
| 4 | But Bolivia is one of the few countries in which hyperinflation has had a happy outcome . |
| 5 | ‘ It is one of the few things in which I excel , ’ Ratagan said . |
| 6 | This is perhaps one of the few areas in which more research may provide genuinely useful insights for more realistic conservation programmes . |
| 7 | I was lucky to have chosen to work in theoretical physics because that was one of the few areas in which my condition would not be a serious handicap . |
| 8 | It is after all one of the few areas in our lives over which we have control . |
| 9 | She could look back on that time with a great deal of fondness ; it had been one of the few times in her life when she had been truly free — there had been no one , neither family , friends nor employer — to make demands on her . |
| 10 | ‘ A mirror , ’ Reynard repeats , realising this is one of the few times in his life he 's been surprised . |
| 11 | Edward sat frozen , one of the few times in his life he had been genuinely frightened . |
| 12 | It was one of the few times in my life when I actually spoke the truth . |
| 13 | If the spontaneous origin of life turned out to be a probable enough event to have occurred during the few man-decades in which chemists have done their experiments , then life should have arisen many times on Earth , and many times on planets within radio range of Earth . |
| 14 | During the few moments in which she paused in her ascent to the church she reflected that now she was looking at the view the other way round ; now she was in one of the overcrowded little alleys visible from San Martino as merely a crack in a vast expanse of roof tiles and crumbling masonry and noticeable from that lofty vantage point because of the fluttering of the washing hung out on poles over the street to dry . |
| 15 | The county members and those who sat for the few boroughs in which the franchise was reasonably wide were normally the most independent of eighteenth-century MPs ; but they were in a minority . |
| 16 | ( 1983 ) and one of the few volumes in its field is Herington ( 1984 ) . |
| 17 | ‘ It was one of the few occasions in his life when he tried and failed . |
| 18 | Oh , then I am young again and , for one of the few occasions in my life , deeply in love . |
| 19 | Since non-acceptance on the basis of length of residence is one of the few ways in which local workers can retain any of their old status in the village , they restrict their social contacts to those who share these judgements with them . |
| 20 | Should anyone be interested , I would gladly co-ordinate their efforts — one of the few ways in which I might be able to help the Society from this distance ’ . |
| 21 | This is an important aspect of the hardware as it is one of the few ways in which the hardware of the RISC utilises the instruction set . |
| 22 | It would seem then to fall to those staff who happen to be bilingual , or to those few teachers who are actually engaged in the teaching of community languages , to raise general awareness in the few schools in which they are deployed . |
| 23 | In the few tubes in which this had occurred there was no alternative but to sever the head stud . |
| 24 | Two of the screen 's toughest tough guys , James Cagney and Humphrey Bogart , each won his only Oscar in one of the few films in which he played a goody : Yankee Doodle Dandy and The African Queen respectively . |
| 25 | Defence has accounted for 11% of UK manufacturing output and is one of the few sectors in which the country is still a world leader . |
| 26 | I was afraid to go to bed , or even to sleep for a few moments in my chair . |
| 27 | Hill and Whitlow taking a few chances in their own half and finally Whitlow 's dispossessed and it comes to Collimore . |
| 28 | Anyone with a few coins in their purse , or gold pieces , was well advised to take a ‘ chair ’ or a ‘ cab ’ home after dark . |
| 29 | Then she said I could look and she gave me a piece of cloth with a few coins in it which my mother had saved for me — and the ring . |
| 30 | ‘ The peculiar thing is that Blackbeard seemed ready to murder us for a wallet with a few fivers in it , all of which he was going to give to his bruiser , anyway . |