Example sentences of "[art] [adv] few [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The calf-bearer is one of the comparatively few male figures dedicated on the Acropolis . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Finely 's essay in fact deals very well with both the relatively few certain facts that are known about the event and the myths that have been built up around them . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Most of the experiments on this topic have , however , been conducted with human subjects and I shall begin by reviewing this work before turning to an analysis of the relatively few further studies that have used animal subject to pursue the phenomenon revealed by Lawrence . |
| 6 | In others he will have virtually no guidance , beyond looking at the relatively few determinate sentences for attempted murder and considering what adjustment should be made for the fact that death ensued . |
| 7 | Portadown is one of the very few Irish Circuits in which an adequate provision is made for the sustentation of Ministers on the spot . ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | In most fields the nineteenth century was the age of the textbook , such as Thomas Thomson 's in chemistry and Lyell 's in geology , where successive editions made the earlier ones obsolete ; the plates that survive usefully are perhaps to be compared to the very few classic books like the Origin of Species which go on selling . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | As one of them related to Yakovlev , he had tried to get straw from his brother in a nearby village when he ran out of lighting-fuel , but officials had stopped him , since he was stealing ‘ from the poor … there 's sucilizm ( sic ) for you ’ , Ivanovka Soviet on the other hand was managed by no obvious clique , and the very few rich peasants had no general influence in the village , which contained no poor households but a lot of middling ones . |
| 12 | 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 ) . |
| 13 | In one of the very few official references to population control at the conference , the Declaration called on states to " promote appropriate demographic policies " . |
| 14 | 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 ) . |
| 15 | 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 ’ . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | He was said to become of the very few senior officials who ever dared to question , if not contradict the Shah . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Ian and John are among the very few unchaperoned males attending the second Scottish Bridal Fair . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The very few secondary schools and the rare rural schools gave lessons in Russian only , on general Russian lines . |
| 23 | The party disintegrated and with it went one of the very few sensible perspectives on the Free City 's position . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 ) . |
| 26 | L'Appel is one of the very few Protestant magazines in French-speaking Africa , and there are plans to make it monthly . |
| 27 | Patsy remains one of the very few sexual renegades who have dared to wear women 's clothes in front of their teammates . |
| 28 | These days , when she occasionally took over from Annunciata and brushed Mrs Browning 's hair , she marvelled that a woman so much older than herself should still have such black , black hair with only a very few silver threads in it ( which she was instructed to pull out ) . |
| 29 | Moreover , they are concentrated in a very few geographic locations . |
| 30 | Together with a very few other insects , they have developed an immunity to the poison . |