Example sentences of "[art] few [noun pl] in the " in BNC.
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1 | The few parents in the study had had children relatively late , when they had established reputations which would bridge a career break . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | Ours is one of the few countries in the European Community that would meet those aspects of the stage 3 European monetary union standards . |
6 | Britain is currently one of the few countries in the world where so-called " gene food " is already on sale . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | One of the few certainties in the European debate is physical geography which decrees a peripheral position for Scotland in the new Europe . |
11 | 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 . |
12 | 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 . |
13 | ( The General Register Office in Edinburgh has been aware of the few errors in the Scottish data ) . |
14 | 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 . ’ |
15 | They are one of the few reactors in the country which , if anything went wrong with the core in any way , could not be shut down . |
16 | In addition , while Tony Adams played well against Norway , Keown 's availability will be welcomed as he was one of the few successes in the European Champion-ships . |
17 | And when he died , he left the few bits in the cottage to Billy . |
18 | That decentralized state structures serve to reduce the scope of welfare state expansion and socialist incumbency is one of the few findings in the comparative public policy literature on which there is near unanimity ( Castles , 1985 , p. 120 ) . |
19 | This ranks as one of the few occasions in the past 20 years when I have forked out for a little bottle . |
20 | This is one of the few occasions in the House when I can say that many hon. Members on both sides of the House told the Government that that would happen if the Government allowed the policy to develop in the way it has . |
21 | They checked the few patients in the waiting-room , and Kathleen got Amy to sort them into priority , talking through the decision-making process as she did so . |
22 | The West is one of the few places in the world where women still have to change their names upon getting married . |
23 | The sunken city on its north shore makes it one of the few places in the world where it is possible to go hard aground on a Byzantine mosaic . |
24 | It was their habit to take lunch several times a week at Dolly 's Chop House , by St. Paul 's Churchyard , one of the few places in the financial district that would allow a woman in . |
25 | Here , in splendid isolation , emerged a tribe of Polynesians who were prepared to address problems such as this , and who moreover were one of the few peoples in the world to develop a system of writing . |
26 | The idea was that the few men in the University who could read the original language of the Edda and the Sagas should group together with those who wished to learn , and read their way through the principal texts . |
27 | Zahedi was one of the few men in the court with his own standing . |
28 | ‘ It is one of the few hospices in the country to have all four services actually working from one centre . ’ |
29 | Even within these areas , there is smaller-scale , shorter-distance commuting for the few jobs in the larger villages and the smaller towns . |
30 | This contraction was most severely felt by the few employees in the smaller workshops . |