Example sentences of "[prep] [art] few [n mass] [pron] " in BNC.
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1 | Afterwards Martha provided ham and a salad with hard-boiled eggs like gleaming bald heads sticking out from limp lettuce leaves for the few people who turned up . |
2 | And I know I was madly , madly involved with the symphony to the extent that when it was done — and it is one of the few works I say this of — I would not dare touch it again . |
3 | Representatives of the few people they had come to know in the course of their wanderings round the world were left to clear up . |
4 | He is one of the few people I have ever met who has never been either inflated or deflated by personal possessions . |
5 | And because he was slightly dim , or at least vulnerable and kind and easily led , being one of the few people I could mock and dominate with impunity , we became mates . |
6 | Sylvia is one of the few people who has learnt to interpret Elaine 's noises . |
7 | Having known the Royal Family all her life , she was easy to talk to , and was one of the few people who knew what Diana was talking about when she spoke about her day-to-day life . |
8 | Hamad Hasan al-Harash , for example , was a senior official in the Agriculture Department in Kufra ( Zawiya ) , had two well-established irrigated gardens worked by Egyptian labourers in 1975–9 , and was one of the few people who supplied fruit and vegetables to the Kufra market on a regular basis . |
9 | People bought her lunch and rang her up and sent her birthday cards ; it seemed a particularly cruel joke that one of the few people who really did dislike her should be married to her . |
10 | I 'm one of the few people who can really claim to have gone with Noakes . ’ |
11 | I was one of the few people who understood him . ’ |
12 | Despite their differences and Leopold 's difficult and austere character , his father 's death robbed Wolfgang of a most loving and tender parent , and of one of the few people who genuinely appreciated and fully comprehended the nature of his genius . |
13 | When Karen met Robert , teased by his description of himself as ‘ one of the few people who has never seen the ‘ Sound of Music ’ , she thought ‘ nice … |
14 | Bill Rathje , a professor of archaeology at the University of Arizona , is one of the few people who has burrowed into America 's landfills and weighed and measured their contents — a treatment usually reserved for the dustbins of rock stars . |
15 | She was one of the few people who had no fear of him , even her Chief Constable would be shocked if he heard the way she argued with him sometimes . |
16 | And she suddenly realized that Derek Fairfax was one of the few people who would view matters in the same light as her . |
17 | She was one of the few people who rose early in the morning to greet him on his release from prison in 1897 . |
18 | Already you are familiar with my lifestyle , my hobbies ; you are even one of the few people who know of Gabriella . ’ |
19 | At any rate , I can say that I am one of the few people who saw T. S. Eliot with his trousers down . |
20 | ‘ And I was probably one of the few people who ever paid It ’ , he suggests . |
21 | Zaria was one of the few people who could control her when she had the moods . ’ |
22 | Ken is one of the few people who can stun me into being ungrammatical . |
23 | He spoke of the research evidence of the few people who are gi who are given money for care , taken up after the settlement of their cases and added his own experience . |
24 | He was trained at the École Nationale d'Administration , which is the national administration training school , and in fact at the École Polytechnique as well , which is , so he was one of the few people who went through both the elite training establishments , and he served as a civil servant for a while before turning to political life and getting elected as a Member of Parliament . |
25 | But for now , pilots like the Trislander as one of the few aircraft which allows real flying in today 's increasingly automated world . |
26 | A survey of the biota of the river between 1979 and 1981 revealed that the macroinvertebrate fauna had been adversely affected , involving loss of diversity and the proliferation of a few species which are tolerant of high levels of pollution . |
27 | He said : ‘ We have very good arguments to prove that we can not be held responsible for the actions of a few people who did not know what they were doing . |
28 | At my first event in Fort Worth , I had held on to the few people I knew as though for dear life , terrified at the thought of being stranded in this great wilderness . |
29 | Free all that valuable time wasted on such bureaucratic chores to go and listen to a few people who have something important to say . |
30 | It is therefore all the more significant that , among the few statistics it does contain , data on variations in performance between providers feature so prominently — 50% variation in acute hospital treatment costs , for example , or 100% variation in general practitioner prescribing costs . |