Example sentences of "[num] of the few [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We sat on a tree that had been felled and ate some very tasty ham sandwiches -one of the few picnics I have ever been to . |
| 2 | Dill , the ‘ boarded meeting place ’ , was one of the few Sussex hundreds that seems to have had any accommodation specially provided ; what effect the winter conditions had on the conducting of business can only be imagined . |
| 3 | ‘ I suppose he 's one of the few classicists writing . |
| 4 | Our count of the beltless excludes a man from the agriculture ministry who had an over-the-shoulder belt slung under his arms and a severely disabled man , who we charitably presumed to have one of the few exemptions . |
| 5 | Equally coveted were a magnificent pair of Louis XVI ormolu-mounted Boulle marquetry and Japanese lacquer commodes by Etienne Levasseur which had the added distinction of being beautiful , practical and with an eighteenth-century provenance ( one of the few Patiño pieces with that distinction ) , made for the great connoisseur Pierre Louis-Paul Randon de Boisset . |
| 6 | ‘ We are one of the few clubs that could maintain a big staff and keep everybody happy . |
| 7 | Because potatoes do not absorb radioactive nucleotides , they are one of the few crops that could be grown safely in the heavily contaminated soils around Chernobyl . |
| 8 | It 's one of the few crops the European Community is n't growing enough of . |
| 9 | He is one of the few engineers or designers still at Browns Lane to have worked with Sir William Lyons , the company 's founder and whose principles still provide much of its inspiration . |
| 10 | This reflects the so-called doctrine of double effect which was incorporated into English law in one of the few cases that have been decided in this area , R v. |
| 11 | This can best be seen in the appointment of commissions to assess the subsidy on aliens granted in Edward IV 's last parliament , one of the few cases where the council took positive decisions about personnel rather than ( as with the sheriffs , for instance ) simply confirming Edward IV 's appointments . |
| 12 | They were never very significant , few are well-documented , and many are now abandoned , but they represent , in the old and densely occupied county of Somerset , one of the few cases where an area was colonised and settled . |
| 13 | This can best be seen in the appointment of commissions to assess the subsidy on aliens granted in Edward IV 's last parliament , one of the few cases where the council took positive decisions about personnel rather than ( as with the sheriffs , for instance ) simply confirming Edward IV 's appointments . |
| 14 | Coda Inc currently has seven offices in the US , and saw sales increase 49% to $10.6m , which , Turner reckons , makes it one of the few UK companies to have succeeded in such a notoriously dangerous market . |
| 15 | America is one of the few countries that , in effect , taxes corporate income twice : once as corporation tax , and a second time as personal-income tax , when the income is paid out as dividends . |
| 16 | This disillusionment among the young must be worrying for the Iranian regime , which is one of the few countries in the world with a minimum voting age of only 15 . |
| 17 | France , he adds , is one of the few countries where science and technology has a future . |
| 18 | England is one of the few countries in which the legal tradition provides a test which can distinguish between the natural and the unnatural , the civilised and the barbarous . |
| 19 | Singapore is one of the few countries that supports the reality of global business . |
| 20 | But Bolivia is one of the few countries in which hyperinflation has had a happy outcome . |
| 21 | Although Australia remain one of the few countries to have taken part in every Summer Olympiad ( Greece , Switzerland and Great Britain are the others ) , they did not bring a cricket team to Paris . |
| 22 | Holland is one of the few countries which practices a hotel grading system ranging from 1 to 5 stars . |
| 23 | Nowadays , struggling on in the name of Islamic socialism , Algeria is a place of austerity , one of the few countries on earth where you ca n't get Coca-Cola . |
| 24 | Britain , says Ash , must be one of the few countries where being ‘ too clever by half ’ is regarded as a stinging insult . |
| 25 | South Africa is one of the few countries in the world where people drive on the left , so that most motorcars have a right-hand drive . |
| 26 | Ours is one of the few countries in the European Community that would meet those aspects of the stage 3 European monetary union standards . |
| 27 | In doing so it became one of the few countries where the brand has an active agency handling Guinness through the retail distribution system . |
| 28 | Britain is currently one of the few countries in the world where so-called " gene food " is already on sale . |
| 29 | Mexico is one of the few countries that still allow fishermen to encircle and snare dolphins to catch the tuna that swim with them . |
| 30 | But one of the few countries he has not designed for is his homeland Hungary . |