Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [adv] few [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Director of Studies : ‘ Is this the reason for the very few high exam results at ’ A ’ Level ? ’ |
| 2 | The only thing was to push me at once to the front ; and almost immediately , after a very few brief words from the distinguished chairman , I found myself face to face with an audience that evidently meant mischief . |
| 3 | This level of activity stands in marked contrast to that of the very few working class women who qualified under local government franchises ( although increasing numbers became Guardians after 1894 , when the property qualification was abolished ) , who squeezed in two or three hours Poor Law work on a Saturday between household chores . |
| 4 | The condition of the people of Hartfield , Hawksborough and Shoyswell hundreds differed from that of the rest of the region only in so far as the usual string of £1 assessments was balanced in each of them by one of the very few three-figure ones ( see Table 2.17 ) . |
| 5 | I know that sounds obvious but even nine years after I designed it , I still have one of the very few adjustable-height lecterns in the UK . |
| 6 | In one of the very few official references to population control at the conference , the Declaration called on states to " promote appropriate demographic policies " . |
| 7 | Why he was dragged out in 1558 and transformed from an obscure apostate into one of the very few great martyrs of the Scottish Reformation , remains a mystery . |
| 8 | Still , the busy street is home to one of the very few city-centre supermarkets ( a grand title for a relatively small shop , but it does capture the flavour ) . |
| 9 | This piece of furniture is one of the very few genuine antique pieces in the house , and could well have been an eighteenth-century travelling craftsman 's miniature . |
| 10 | Thierry Millerand , Sotheby 's head of French furniture , remarks on the extreme rarity of the Louis XVI ormolu-mounted and painted satinwood and mahogany commode ( est. $1.2–1.6 million ) that is the top lot of the Ortiz-Patiño offering of French furniture : ‘ The commode is one of the very few surviving examples of French eighteenth-century painted and veneered furniture ’ and adds , ‘ We are certain that it was executed by Joseph Baumhauer and that it belonged to a great collector , Nicolas Beaujon , in the eighteenth century ’ . |
| 11 | Porto Alegre was identified because it has two of the very few general practice training programmes in the country . |
| 12 | Thus an anti-communist accord was preserved in the face of one of the very few political disagreements to intrude on the fun at drinks ' time . |
| 13 | Portadown is one of the very few Irish Circuits in which an adequate provision is made for the sustentation of Ministers on the spot . ’ |
| 14 | Steve Meyers claimed one of the very few good problems left at Tremadog when he found a way through the steep ground right of Erebus , providing No Holds Barred E6 6c . |
| 15 | Durham is one of the very few ecclesiastical buildings in England to retain its original clerestory windows ( as can be seen in Fig. 294 of the exterior ) . |
| 16 | Patsy remains one of the very few sexual renegades who have dared to wear women 's clothes in front of their teammates . |
| 17 | He was one of the very few left of the Bruce 's close company , even if no paladin . |
| 18 | The family of Mortimer of Chirk were one of the very few permanent victims of the political upheavals between 1322 and 1330 : they abandoned the attempt to recover Chirk , and settled in Rent . |
| 19 | The party disintegrated and with it went one of the very few sensible perspectives on the Free City 's position . |
| 20 | He was said to become of the very few senior officials who ever dared to question , if not contradict the Shah . |
| 21 | L'Appel is one of the very few Protestant magazines in French-speaking Africa , and there are plans to make it monthly . |
| 22 | The peak can be climbed as part of Kungsleden , the King 's Route , an excellent if over-populated route and one of the very few waymarked trails in the Arctic . |
| 23 | Judging from the photograph , Joseph Noel Paton 's Crimean War weepie ‘ Home ’ is one of the very few narrative pictures which might be up to the standard of this ideal exhibition . |
| 24 | The calf-bearer is one of the comparatively few male figures dedicated on the Acropolis . |
| 25 | In fact , the losses of the comparatively few German battalions engaged in this small corner of the Verdun front that day alone exceeded 2,400 , little less than the total British casualties on D-Day in 1944 . |
| 26 | Clearly the ornithologist must expect the evolution of agriculture to continue , and its most likely result will be to produce a much more uniform habitat with consequently a much less varied bird population than at present , composed of a comparatively few widespread and adaptable species . |
| 27 | Rostov was one of a very few special exceptions to the Imperial edict which excluded commoners from access to the bi-annual treatment which was necessary for administration of the drug , but he saw no reason to apprise the Adjudicator of the fact . |
| 28 | Except for a very few rich people , they are all financially much less well off than they were . |
| 29 | Together with a very few other insects , they have developed an immunity to the poison . |
| 30 | For the purposes of the present paper the general position of the boundaries has been deduced from the linear arrangement of well known surface structures , some of which are recognisable on satellite images , and guided by the pattern of published gravity and aeromagnetic maps , also taking into account the age and character of the pre-Permian rocks penetrated in the relatively few deep boreholes from which data are publicly available . |