Example sentences of "[prep] the [adv] few [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I begin here , therefore , with a discussion of the relatively few reports of attempts to replicate and extend his findings . |
| 2 | The London County Council , for long a stronghold of the Labour party , was one of the relatively few authorities to press firmly in this direction in the immediate post-war years . |
| 3 | This will be followed by a consideration of the relatively few attempts systematically to distinguish the social properties of the object from those of language as expressive medium . |
| 4 | Of the relatively few exceptions to the pattern two which call for mention are Chicheley Hall , Buckinghamshire ( 1719–21 ) , and Sutton Scarsdale , Derbyshire ( begun 1724 ) : the exotic façade of the former probably owes more to the taste of the patron , Sir John Chester , than to Smith 's own devising ; but Sutton Scarsdale , in part evidently inspired by Gibbs 's unexecuted design of 1721 for the university buildings at Cambridge , is his finest work , a wholly convincing essay in the heroic grand manner , in which the giant Corinthian order is handled with total assurance . |
| 5 | Richter is one of the very few artists making recordings of standard repertoire who are so awe-inspiring in their comprehensiveness that the long list of comparative versions becomes a virtual irrelevance . |
| 6 | Although it appears that sentencing became more severe during the first three years the guide-lines were in use , Minnesota remains one of the very few states that has avoided huge increases in prison population size ( Parent 1988 ) . |
| 7 | He must have been a natural for the job , being one of the very few Greeks with an appropriate qualification . |
| 8 | Tanzania is one of the very few countries in Africa that broadcasts in only one African language plus that of the former colonial power . |
| 9 | Now we 're one of the very few companies that will pay weekly commissions on a commission only basis . |
| 10 | In 1668 he was elected a fellow of the Royal Society , becoming thereby one of the very few businessmen in that body . |
| 11 | When the old Roman city was revived and became London again , from the late ninth century on , one of its prime functions in the eyes of King Alfred and his successors was as a bulwark against the Danes ; his boroughs had a major defensive role to play , and London was the greatest of them — one of the very few cities of this age which came wholly to fill a Roman enceinte . |
| 12 | Though wounded seventeen times , he was one of the very few aces to survive the war . |
| 13 | Salt was one of the very few necessaries of life that could not be produced anywhere and had to be transported from the centres of production on the sea coasts , on tidal rivers , and from certain inland centres . |
| 14 | His work must , therefore , be considered as one of the very few character/national ballets of its time , like the Russian ballets of Fokine . |
| 15 | The Dornoch Firth is one of the very few areas around the British Isles given a Grade A classification for shellfish purity . |
| 16 | Perhaps the most famous incumbent of Stanton Lacy is poor Robert Foulkes , who was one of the very few clergymen ever to have been executed for murder . |
| 17 | It is one of the very few creatures in the world that can kill by electrocution . |
| 18 | Of the very few things that were her own , her chastity mattered most . |
| 19 | One of the very few art historians to have moved away from the unique art object to consider more mundane phenomena is Gombrich , whose book , The Sense of Order ( 1979 ) attempts to make generalizations about the nature of design , as opposed to art . |
| 20 | Prostatitis is one of the very few conditions for which doctors may sometimes recommend more sex . |
| 21 | It is one of the very few institutions where the shared goals overcome nationalist or racial considerations . |
| 22 | The start of this session was one of the very few occasions when we specifically told the pupils how to conduct part of an activity . |
| 23 | This , as one of the very few occasions , when , during a meeting , the girls did not sit traditionally silent or whisper amongst themselves . |
| 24 | They did not pause on her arrival , though Alix , ever polite , waved obliquely to welcome her back : watching them , it occurred to Liz that perhaps in all the years they had all known one another , this was one of the very few occasions on which they had all been in the same room . |
| 25 | The Geological Survey was one of the very few organizations employing men of science in Britain — Greenwich Observatory was one of the others — but their status was about that of clerks in the Civil Service , and this rankled . |
| 26 | It is one of the very few search firms whose results are published in Kompass , which reveals not only the firm 's rapid rise in turnover but a striking rate of return on capital employed , indicating the potentially very profitable nature of the headhunting business . |
| 27 | This quotation is one of the very few places in his work where he actually mentions soil erosion . |
| 28 | NME remains one of the very few places the featherbed treatment is n't guaranteed . |
| 29 | The architect , Bogdan Bogdanovic , whose entire career has been devoted to the tragic commemoration of war victims , is one of the very few Serbians brave enough to speak out against the current Serbian aggression . |
| 30 | He has been one of the very few Serbs to have the courage to speak out against the kind of fanatical Serbian nationalism which has led to the present war . |