Example sentences of "[prep] [art] few [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | AIRCRAFT FOR THE FEW by Michael Bowyer is probably one of the most comprehensive accounts yet published of all the operational types to see RAF service during the Battle of Britain . |
2 | This great canvas is one of the few of Rudolf 's collection to remain in Prague . |
3 | The next mill downstream is Cheshers Mill , later referred to as The Old Mill , one of the few in Blockley never to be used for silk . |
4 | Having been told by the gentleman at passenger enquiries that the Lowestoft train is one of the few in Britain to retain six-seater compartments , I am fully prepared to adopt my usual routine for such occasions ; I intend to rush on , secure an empty compartment , slide the door behind me , adopt the brazen-hussy-like pose of an Amsterdam whore in her front window ( tongue rolling out and knees wide apart , as I slouch across the upholstery ) , crook my index finger and beckon slowly at any commuters passing along the corridor outside who are considering invading my territory . |
5 | Helping to fill it , though , is a recent argument that Carlisle , as a civitas capital , was also a bishopric , and one of the few in Britain which survived the Romano-British to Anglo-Saxon transition ; indeed the civitas is seen as the homeland of St Patrick . |
6 | These two universities have been involved as two of the few in Britain with expertise in both theology and development . |
7 | The Department of Scandinavian Studies is the only centre in Scotland — and one of the few in Britain — for the study of Scandinavian languages and cultures . |
8 | He was entirely comfortable with the predictable opinion of the Senior Chief Inspector of Schools who confessed that ‘ I am not much moved by what appears to sacrifice the interests of the few in favour of the many when one result is certain to be that the quality of the person required to fill posts of great importance and of a highly specialized nature is likely to be degraded . ’ |
9 | The McLaggans had put grass halters round the necks of a few of Menzies ' horses ; Cameron rode on one ; from the back in his dark coat he looked like a preacher leading away the faithful to a field communion . |
10 | Jazz skewered up his hair with a few of Mrs Nicholson 's hairpins and the three of them shuffled and clacked respectively for home , grateful for the now emptier streets . |
11 | Jerseys were first imported in 1893 , direct from the Channel Islands , and subsequently from Denmark , with a few from Britain and the USA . |
12 | At Slapton , as on not a few other manors , a degree of confusion is understandable , for tenures were complex , embracing not only freeholds and copyholds — mostly heritable , though including a few for lives — but also what were described in a survey made in 1548 as ‘ The Farme Landes ’ , which were probably parcels of the demesne that were let by copy of court roll , the larger ones for fifteen years , the rest at will . |
13 | At 8 o'clock on Friday , June 15th , over 30 teenagers met in the church Family Centre for a strange ritual known only to a few as MIDNIGHTICESKATING . |
14 | If it occurs anywhere in Offa 's reign it does so as Of Rx A on a few of Offa 's coins by the London moneyer , Alhmund . |