Example sentences of "[was/were] one [prep] [art] few " in BNC.
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| 31 | 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 . |
| 32 | Of course , sermon-tasting was one of the few traits shared by all church-going Victorians . |
| 33 | Mrs Mary Brunell , 67 , was one of the few outright supporters of the Ashdown personality cult . |
| 34 | Mr Jose-Maria Mendiluce , special envoy of the United Nations High Commission for Refugees , was one of the few permitted to pass through Zvornik in a white Jeep bearing the organisation 's flag . |
| 35 | It was one of the few references to the former prime minister 's gender that I heard during the whole week of leadership crise . |
| 36 | Critics noticed that he was one of the few artists genuinely enthusiastic about new talent . |
| 37 | She was one of the few members of the artistic community who admitted to religious observance . |
| 38 | Carter brought her little enough , and this was one of the few exceptions . |
| 39 | Soldier of Fortune was one of the few who published my pictures ; I had a cover . |
| 40 | A slim , wiry youth , he was one of the few who could claim a ‘ middle-class ’ upbringing . |
| 41 | Boyle was one of the few Tories for whom Crosland had any time . |
| 42 | It was one of the few times that the pulp glossy pop press produced journalism worth reading . |
| 43 | It was one of the few times he did n't get up and down from trouble , and that put us level . |
| 44 | She was one of the few people in the world who genuinely found Henry funny . |
| 45 | His father was a California shaper and Richie was one of the few top ASP surfers who shaped his own boards . |
| 46 | He was one of the few who did n't give the company a song . |
| 47 | More recently General Wynell-Mayow , who is commemorated in the Church , was one of the few survivors of the heroic but futile charge of the six hundred at Balaclava . |
| 48 | He said that this was one of the few buildings to have been built as Government Offices , but was still built ‘ in accordance with the principle of a private residence ’ . |
| 49 | He was Surveyor to Eton College 's Chalk Farm Estate , and was one of the few architects working in an Elizabethan style at that time . |
| 50 | As it fell out he was one of the few successes at Selhurst Park at a particularly difficult time for the Palace club . |
| 51 | One of the points that distinguishes Green from many of the artists who made prints of the Lake District at this period was the fact that he was one of the few who prepared and drew on the plates and etched the images himself . |
| 52 | I was one of the few ‘ non-official ’ witnesses at the inquiry into what I trust is the last colonial war that Britain will ever fight . |
| 53 | AB : I would be a fool if I did n't say Schenker was one of the few analysts we can rate seriously . |
| 54 | Livée played the spinet and was one of the few women in France to have mastered the analytical geometry of René Descartes . |
| 55 | Pomerania , with a population of over 100,000 Polish-speakers , was about 35 per cent Polish , and in spite of the flight from the land and the flight of the population to the industrial centres of the west , Pomerania was one of the few Prussian provinces to show a marked increase in its population , and almost all of that growth was attributed to the Poles . |
| 56 | This was one of the few houses to escape destruction in the Great Fire . |
| 57 | Welsh House was one of the few buildings to survive the Great Fire . |
| 58 | Clive Milton was one of the few who found that the open life did have its virtues : |
| 59 | She was one of the few . |
| 60 | He was pleased , proud that his was one of the few households with milk in winter , and apparently unruffled by the irony of its coming too late , when the calf was already more dead than alive . |