Example sentences of "[num] [prep] [pos pn] few [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Strapping the DataMax onto one 's wrist shows up one of its few faults . |
2 | Miss Glover , in one of her few interventions , said warmly that she believed such things could and did happen . |
3 | One of her few friends in the movement , whom she used to meet at Lockharts in the Strand for a poached egg once a week , had come down from a mill town in Lancashire in 1916 with nothing but two brown paper parcels . |
4 | She has been unable to get an academic job since ; she did not get a job in science until 1990 , when she was hired by Genetics Institute , a biotechnology company founded by one of her few supporters , Mark Ptashne of Harvard . |
5 | She had added a large floppy white collar bought in Spaxton , and one of her few pieces of jewellery — a Victorian cameo on a gold chain . |
6 | The moment of asking was one of their few times of agreement and understanding . |
7 | Certainly for the American clearinghouses it is one of their few sources of finance , and again it also serves to maintain them as focal points for information . |
8 | Then he and Rabscuttle went secretly down one of their few holes where there was no water , put a sentry outside and thought and talked for a day and a night . |
9 | Brought up as a Catholic , he was educated at Stonyhurst , where even one of his few school friends described him as ‘ the ungainliest of boys with a huge head ’ . |
10 | In the autumn , in Champagne , Pétain had one of his few failures . |
11 | In one of his few appearances for the junior teams at Preston somebody threw the ball at him and said : ‘ You play soccer , you have a go . ’ |
12 | It was one of his few boasts that he had never taken an academic examination in his life . |
13 | Playing one of his few games in goal for Scotland , the Perth-born keeper , rolled the ball out to the experienced Manchester City fullback Willie Donachie ; with a shot of slide-rule perfection , Donachie lobbed the stranded Blyth , scoring a perfect own goal which gave Wales a fortunate draw . |
14 | Quoted by Samuel Johnson [ q.v. ] in volume two of his Dictionary ( in spirit , if not literally , one of his few infringements of his principle of excluding living authors ) , it is couched in the Scriblerian tradition of ironic instruction in undesirable skills . |
15 | David Thomson felt that , ‘ Hoffman seemed at a loss … in one of his few concessions to the big-salary syndrome . ’ |
16 | Boyd says that Scandal , the film about the Profumo affair ( one of his few ideas which did materialise ) has ‘ not yet shown any profits ’ . |
17 | Much of my paltry income goes on rent boys — one of my few weekend leisure activities . |
18 | ( One of my few virtues . |