Example sentences of "[prep] [Wh det] only [art] few " in BNC.
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| 1 | St. Katherine 's Gardens — once the site of St. Katherine 's Church of which only a few stones now remain . |
| 2 | After the ups and downs of critical theory and fashion , the pedagogy of literary linguistics is an area into which only a few intrepid explorers have so far dared to venture , and the results here deserve to be widely and warmly welcomed . |
| 3 | Growth in the take-home trade — some 15 per cent of all beer sales — in which only a few of the larger independent brewers have national distribution . |
| 4 | The working-class boy who passes the eleven-plus is likely to come from an elementary or primary , school from which only a few pupils each year penetrate the grammar-school world . |
| 5 | From being able to cope just about ) with everyday life they were tipped over the edge into breakdown , from which only a few were able to re-emerge . |
| 6 | Many European countries worry that the countries of the former Soviet Union , from which only a few emigrants have escaped since the second world war , could revert to their 19th-century role as big exporters of people . |
| 7 | The subject is now surrounded by a multitude of objects from which only a few can be selected and invested with a sense of self , but Simmel argues that : ‘ our freedom is crippled if we deal with objects that our ego can not assimilate ’ ( 1978 : 462 ) . |
| 8 | It attempts to be a proof that all children can be educated ; yet it is also supposed to form a preparation for higher education to which only a few will aspire . |