Example sentences of "[art] few [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | At the instigation of the Greenock Deaf and Dumb Christian Society , the authorities in Greenock , Scotland , approved the use of a room in Greenock Academy ( opened 1855 ) for the teaching of the few deaf children in the town . |
2 | The submersed leaves form attractive rosettes , while the few floating leaves at the crown are small and oval-shaped . |
3 | The few biblical texts with the mention of Yavan which can be dated with prod ability before 336 B.C. know the Greeks only as traders — or more generically as one of the nations of the world . |
4 | She is also one of the few Labour frontbenchers with ministerial experience , having been a junior Education Minister . |
5 | It is one of the few new entries to a chart dominated by old favourites . |
6 | Only the few three-year-old trout in the river and the salmon disappeared temporarily — but were back again within three months . |
7 | Nevertheless , the City Council has behaved in what can only be described as a lax , sluggish and offhand manner towards one of the few private initiatives at the very centre of Dutch cultural life . |
8 | ‘ This is one of the few private properties on the island . |
9 | Aircraft collectors snapped up the few former airliners in the sale . |
10 | In one of the few official references to population control at the conference , the Declaration called on governments to " promote appropriate demographic policies " . |
11 | One of the few salutary notes in the debate was provided by the Labour Party spokesman , Roy Jenkins ( who was to become President of the EEC Commission in the late 1970s ) , who said , |
12 | Now Fergie junior , one of the few real success in United 's so-far disastrous Premier League start , has come through the toughest test any youngster can undergo — pleasing his father . |
13 | Organised crime is one of the few economic activities in Russia that is growing . |
14 | Volk & Welt , one of the few major publishers of the former East Germany still on the books of the Treuhand , has finally been privatised in a token DM1 buyout led by its managing director Dietrich Simon . |
15 | Stansfield , one of the few prominent radicals in Gladstone 's cabinet of the early 1870s , was from a Unitarian brewing family . |
16 | Now the few surviving members of the once thriving club have just two rooms behind The Institute pub where they meet to play snooker and enjoy an all-male sanctuary . |
17 | One of the few surviving descriptions of the old house is by Dr. John Wallis who took a scientific interest in the extraordinary chimneys . |
18 | He presents the stories of each community , first as they reacted to invasion and conquest , then as they were treated a couple of centuries later as white settlers took over their lands , and , finally , how the few surviving descendants of these once-proud people are faring today . |
19 | No signed or documented work by her is known and what can be assembled as an oeuvre emerges from the few surviving miniatures between 1545 and 1575 . |
20 | Mr Wright is an accomplished narrative historian and has made very good use of the few surviving scraps of contemporary , or nearly contemporary , accounts written by members of the various civilisations . |
21 | The few surviving reports of cases heard in King 's Bench during the period he was a justice ( 1295–1316 ) do not suggest that he made a major contribution to the work of the court . |
22 | That item of news is of great interest to me , for if true , it must be one of the few surviving examples of how the church , since the earliest times , has absorbed Pagan shrines into Roman temples into Saxon churches , etc . |
23 | Planning officer Anthony McGreavey said : ‘ The chapel is one of the few surviving buildings of the first part of the 18th century in the town centre |
24 | In the UK one of the few recent studies of the impact of educational innovation was undertaken by the Schools ' Council 's Impact and Take-Up Project . |
25 | However , the Junkers , instead of facing up to the industrial , economic and social changes that were sweeping Europe , preferred instead to set about the ruthless suppression of any and every gesture of sympathy for the French revolutionaries , and they took military action against the few tiny peeps of protest that emanated from Pomerania . |
26 | The few hundred Australians on Timor had also contributed to the Japanese conviction that the island was to be re-occupied by the Allies , and the enemy reinforced his garrison with men of the 48 Division in the autumn of 1942 when these forces might have been employed to better effect against the Allies on New Guinea and elsewhere . |
27 | They walked the few hundred yards to Rivington 's studio in companionable silence . |
28 | In mid-afternoon , he hove to , dropped anchor and took Mary the few hundred yards to the sports field , basking a little in their ceremonious passage — the work and self-forgetfulness of the day brought out every best quality in her and yet , paradoxically , although at the pitch of her beauty , she herself was more unaware of it than at any other time . |
29 | She smiled and waved , then took her grandfather 's arm to walk the few hundred yards to the church . |
30 | Some way past the hotel , still on the few hundred yards of concrete ‘ promenade ’ , I saw a very tall elderly man standing and bending in the middle of the road , apparently looking for something . |