Example sentences of "[num] of [art] few [noun pl] " 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 | I know the erm , remarks made about getting extra people to register and to have their green card , I 'm probably one of a few councillors with a green card . |
| 3 | It was in a sad little side street — one of a few survivors from the era of terraced housing before the sprawling council estate was built in the fifties . |
| 4 | ‘ I suppose he 's one of the few classicists writing . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | France , he adds , is one of the few countries where science and technology has a future . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Singapore is one of the few countries that supports the reality of global business . |
| 19 | But Bolivia is one of the few countries in which hyperinflation has had a happy outcome . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Holland is one of the few countries which practices a hotel grading system ranging from 1 to 5 stars . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Britain , says Ash , must be one of the few countries where being ‘ too clever by half ’ is regarded as a stinging insult . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Ours is one of the few countries in the European Community that would meet those aspects of the stage 3 European monetary union standards . |
| 26 | In doing so it became one of the few countries where the brand has an active agency handling Guinness through the retail distribution system . |
| 27 | Britain is currently one of the few countries in the world where so-called " gene food " is already on sale . |
| 28 | Mexico is one of the few countries that still allow fishermen to encircle and snare dolphins to catch the tuna that swim with them . |
| 29 | But one of the few countries he has not designed for is his homeland Hungary . |
| 30 | It is one of the few companies exposed to the full blast of petroleum revenue tax but , as a recent National Audit Office report showed , the whole offshore tax system is in a mess . |