Example sentences of "[art] few [noun pl] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This jerk kept the pram moving over the few inches between the foot of the gentle slope and the beginning of the steep grassy bank that ended up at the road . |
| 2 | So I rung them again and said it was dangerous and they came out more or less straight away and did the few holes at the top . |
| 3 | This seemed to explain one of the few advantages of the underground network to Preston — the fact that it was comparatively free of Rottweilers and pit bull terriers . |
| 4 | The few parents in the study had had children relatively late , when they had established reputations which would bridge a career break . |
| 5 | It has hardly been recognised that India is among the few countries in the world that has a proven capability to undertake orbital missions or detonate a nuclear device . |
| 6 | This disillusionment among the young must be worrying for the Iranian regime , which is one of the few countries in the world with a minimum voting age of only 15 . |
| 7 | South Africa is one of the few countries in the world where people drive on the left , so that most motorcars have a right-hand drive . |
| 8 | Ours is one of the few countries in the European Community that would meet those aspects of the stage 3 European monetary union standards . |
| 9 | Britain is currently one of the few countries in the world where so-called " gene food " is already on sale . |
| 10 | One of the few things about the penal system that almost everyone agrees on is that England and Wales have an alarmingly high ( and most of the time rapidly rising ) number of people in prison . |
| 11 | Now she thought that if she had to clear the table once more , put the few plates in the dish-washer , put the cereal packet away , brush the crumbs from the table top , she would scream and go on screaming : scream until the plaster started to crack from the walls and the neighbours gathered to stand whispering outside the window and the cat fled in terror . |
| 12 | At its best it remains one of the few areas of the modern press where imagination , honesty and idealism , however fatuous , can still , occasionally , be found . |
| 13 | These reasons may not be entirely true , but since formal advice on radon exposure was first issued in 1987 by the National Radiological Protection Board ( NRPB ) great concern has arisen in the few areas of the country that have high radon levels . |
| 14 | And in the few areas of the UK where fluoride is added to the water , dental carries have been reduced by around 50% . |
| 15 | Indeed , this was one of the few areas in the early 1980s to be aware of the significance of these centres for early intervention in psychiatric illness , aimed at countering the drift of clients into inpatient facilities and dependency . |
| 16 | We are one of the few companies in the pet food industry not to have seen a decline in sales during this period as wholesalers and retailers reduce stocks to compensate for the high interest rates . |
| 17 | So that few minutes at the end is important for picking up these extra marks you 've been trying to throw away , okay , where you can do it , and the few minutes at the beginning is to look through and find that question wherever it was , that one on the last page . |
| 18 | He took her in his car up to one of the few routes over the Apennines , but when she arrived at the pass , the Passo della Cisa , and saw the undulating , never-ending hills , she panicked . |
| 19 | That most of these exotic names , these exotic Puritan names , are to be found just in the few villages on the borders of East Sussex and Kent that , and are , are to be found in the fifteen nineties to sixteen hundreds . |
| 20 | One of the few certainties in the European debate is physical geography which decrees a peripheral position for Scotland in the new Europe . |
| 21 | Asthma is one of the few diseases on the increase in Britain said Simon Hughes , the party 's environment spokesman . |
| 22 | But his lady stole the scene ; and those who remembered the few lines in the newspapers about Dinah Asshe some years ago stowed them , charitably , in the backs of their minds . |
| 23 | One of the few agencies in the survey to use discount schemes that include the acceptance of low deposits and the offer of free travel insurance . |
| 24 | Anderson was one of the few members of the British colonial administration who , remaining in Africa after British colonialism retreated , made a successful transition to serving the independent governments of the continent . |
| 25 | She was one of the few members of the artistic community who admitted to religious observance . |
| 26 | Probyn is one of the few players on the international scene to have played the game at every level : from Old Albanians , Streatham and Croydon through Richmond and Wasps to the first of his 33 caps in 1988 . |
| 27 | Imbalances in the ecology of the reefs has been put forward as a reason for these plagues caused by commercial fishing of the large predatory gastropod the triton ( Charonia tritonis ) one of the few predators of the Crown of Thorns . |
| 28 | ( The General Register Office in Edinburgh has been aware of the few errors in the Scottish data ) . |
| 29 | Normally , little jumble could be expected from the few cottages on the headland , but Alex Mair , anxious to associate the power station with the community , had put up a notice on the staff board and the two tea chests were usually fairly full by the time the October sale came round . |
| 30 | Alternatively , as he explained to Lord Derby , ‘ the cancelled parts , may , if you please , be bound together , and entitled Illustrations of Birds from Australia , and from the few copies in the hands of the public , they will some day be of value , though , it is true , more to the Book-Collector , than the Naturalist . ’ |