Example sentences of "[noun] of the few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Paying off the debt meant cutting consumption at home of the few things which were imported and almost anything which might be exported . |
| 2 | Invitations come via playgroups but parents of the few children who do not attend one can contact the headteacher , Margaret Sutton , at the school . |
| 3 | The range of humane and other qualities most admired is best illustrated by the contents of the few obituaries carried in its pages . |
| 4 | I tell the truth , honest I do ! " one was shouting , and it and a few others tugged at the lower edges of the few furs he still had on and pulling on his under-breeches where they appeared out of the top of his boots . |
| 5 | My arrival only deepened the stupefaction of the few orderlies , never mind the patients , sprawled two or three to a straw sack and still well short of the size of a woman . |
| 6 | People who write about the stultifying effects of mass media , the bias of news reports , seem to derive their evidence mostly from industrialized countries where people have a greater trust in the accuracy of the few stations readily available . |
| 7 | As he took it their fingers met , invoking so vivid a memory of the few seconds she had spent in his arms that she jerked away , spilling coffee into the saucer . |
| 8 | From videofilms shown to reporters in Saudi Arabia , and the reports of the few journalists who spent the first days of the war in Baghdad , other successful hits can be independently verified . |
| 9 | With the relaxed detachment of a man who has an implicit trust in his technology , Vologsky cast his eyes over the bewildering array of instruments which made up the control panel , taking note of the few facts he actually needed to know . |