Example sentences of "[art] few [n mass] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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1 | It is therefore all the more significant that , among the few statistics it does contain , data on variations in performance between providers feature so prominently — 50% variation in acute hospital treatment costs , for example , or 100% variation in general practitioner prescribing costs . |
2 | And I know I was madly , madly involved with the symphony to the extent that when it was done — and it is one of the few works I say this of — I would not dare touch it again . |
3 | But for now , pilots like the Trislander as one of the few aircraft which allows real flying in today 's increasingly automated world . |
4 | Representatives of the few people they had come to know in the course of their wanderings round the world were left to clear up . |
5 | She subscribed on the face of it to the proposition that we are not put here to be happy , although she was the first to complain if she , or the few people she loved , were not . |
6 | I was one of the few people who understood him . ’ |
7 | He was trained at the École Nationale d'Administration , which is the national administration training school , and in fact at the École Polytechnique as well , which is , so he was one of the few people who went through both the elite training establishments , and he served as a civil servant for a while before turning to political life and getting elected as a Member of Parliament . |
8 | . And er we were truthful , we tried to put our side of the argument , you know there were the few people who said , well I do n't really care , and drove in . |
9 | She was one of the few people who had no fear of him , even her Chief Constable would be shocked if he heard the way she argued with him sometimes . |
10 | At any rate , I can say that I am one of the few people who saw T. S. Eliot with his trousers down . |
11 | Having known the Royal Family all her life , she was easy to talk to , and was one of the few people who knew what Diana was talking about when she spoke about her day-to-day life . |
12 | ‘ We are actually now dealing with a substance which affects us all , not just the few people who take cannabis for recreational purposes . ’ |
13 | Already you are familiar with my lifestyle , my hobbies ; you are even one of the few people who know of Gabriella . ’ |
14 | Afterwards Martha provided ham and a salad with hard-boiled eggs like gleaming bald heads sticking out from limp lettuce leaves for the few people who turned up . |
15 | Sylvia is one of the few people who has learnt to interpret Elaine 's noises . |
16 | When Karen met Robert , teased by his description of himself as ‘ one of the few people who has never seen the ‘ Sound of Music ’ , she thought ‘ nice … |
17 | Bill Rathje , a professor of archaeology at the University of Arizona , is one of the few people who has burrowed into America 's landfills and weighed and measured their contents — a treatment usually reserved for the dustbins of rock stars . |
18 | Hamad Hasan al-Harash , for example , was a senior official in the Agriculture Department in Kufra ( Zawiya ) , had two well-established irrigated gardens worked by Egyptian labourers in 1975–9 , and was one of the few people who supplied fruit and vegetables to the Kufra market on a regular basis . |
19 | She was one of the few people who rose early in the morning to greet him on his release from prison in 1897 . |
20 | She knew he would be friendless , that , beyond the house , the few people who worked in it and herself , there was no one . |
21 | At my first event in Fort Worth , I had held on to the few people I knew as though for dear life , terrified at the thought of being stranded in this great wilderness . |
22 | He is one of the few people I have ever met who has never been either inflated or deflated by personal possessions . |
23 | In the package was the few bob he got extra , because he was half the team . |
24 | Among the few fish which do not mix well with Ampullaria are Leporinus and puffers , both of which may bite pieces out of the snail . |
25 | Yet the few fish which manage to return to Scottish rivers are estimated as being worth several hundreds of pounds each to your economy because of the revenue they create . |
26 | So that eliminates a few people you see . |
27 | I 'd start by shooting a few people I know and making them stop digging holes in the road . ’ |
28 | People came and surrounded her and Erica , and I drifted away from them and around , seeing a few people I knew by sight and hundreds I did n't . |
29 | Not me personally but I have known a few people who 've wanted perhaps , a very quiet wedding , just in a registry office , and finished up with a large church wedding . |
30 | However a few people who tested antibody negative have gone on to develop AIDS , and some scientists now believe that — extremely rarely — someone with HIV may never produce antibodies . |