Example sentences of "among [art] few " in BNC.
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| 1 | Among the few Standish neighbours on the row is Eric , long gone from the closet and married to Stevie , a he-man former semi-film-star , whom he eventually stabs . |
| 2 | The US was yesterday sheltering on its bases at least two participants in the coup attempt who were among the few to escape death or capture . |
| 3 | Among the few exceptions were the cocoa planters of Akwapim . |
| 4 | It has hardly been recognised that India is among the few countries in the world that has a proven capability to undertake orbital missions or detonate a nuclear device . |
| 5 | ‘ Vzglyad ’ and ‘ TSN ’ were singled out because they were among the few television programmes willing to challenge Mr Kravchenko . |
| 6 | They had blue-chip credit standing , and were among the few counterparties with plenty of fixed-rate interest payments to swap for floating-rate ones . |
| 7 | This imagery is even more extraordinary when one considers that in this country , the Christian Churches are among the few places of worship where women can go whether they are menstruating or not . |
| 8 | The weakness in passenger traffic , which fell 8 p.c last year , and operating losses have not prevented the airline from launching the most successful expansion programme among European airlines so far , in a bid to be among the few groups which are expected to survive deregulation over the next few years . |
| 9 | ‘ Among the few books I took with me into the Desert was The Oxford Book of Modern Verse which you gave me . |
| 10 | It was built in 876 , and those ancient parts of the church that remain are among the few fragments from that time that still exist , not only in Milan , but also in Lombardy . |
| 11 | Derry politics aroused nothing but distaste for working within the system among the few people who were interested in politics but who were not already involved in one of the two main parties . |
| 12 | Its wharves were among the few where steam vessels outnumbered sailing ships at that time . |
| 13 | Experienced volunteers thought that they should help with in-bureau tutoring ; among the few who knew what social policy work was , there were some who wanted to take more part in it and others who wanted more time to read in order to keep up to date . |
| 14 | Handicrafts are among the few activities that employ Indians on their reservations . |
| 15 | EL AL was among the few international airlines that managed to show a net profit last year : a respectable $11.5m on sales of $138m . |
| 16 | Among the few notable and recent examples of reforming leadership within prison systems , mention might be made of H.H. Brydensholt in Denmark , Hans Tulkens in The Netherlands , Ken Schoen in Minnesota and , with respect to youth prison systems , Jerome Miller in Massachusetts . |
| 17 | Among the few surprises in a generally lacklustre sale of nineteenth-century furniture and decorative arts at Sotheby 's New York on 13 February was a walnut library table , simply catalogued as ‘ American Walnut library table , third-quarter 19th century , Probably Philadelphia ’ , and estimated at $4–6,000 . |
| 18 | Vivien Eliot was buried in a cemetery in Pinner , Middlesex ; her husband and her brother were among the few mourners . |
| 19 | People said it was painted by " the students " — they 're among the few willing takers who get homes on hard-to-let estates — who sound like Siberian exiles doing good works among the peasants . |
| 20 | By then , though , many communities had their clubs and institutes , among the few places of pleasure on their barren landscape , or miners ' " casinos ' , as one aggrieved Durham clergyman called them . |
| 21 | Among the few papers in his possession at the time of his death were some manuscript notes in which he was evidently attempting to develop his earlier skit , ‘ The Hopkin Syndicate ’ . |
| 22 | And while some ‘ designer names ’ have traded their integrity for the financial rewards of supplying a mass market , Christian Dior is among the few companies which has remained true to the stylish vision of its founder . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Shares in electronics companies were among the few attractive ones in the early 1980s , but by 1988 the National Economic Development Council was reporting that rationalization to meet foreign competition in this sector was overdue . |
| 26 | Nor did a spirit of affectionate remembrance obtain among the few whom Ursula felt obliged to entertain afterwards at Swans ' Meadow . |
| 27 | Among the few topics consistently under-represented was Bilingualism and Multilingualism , and no evidence suggested that the languages and varieties of language of all ethnic groups were being built upon . |
| 28 | Gustave used to look back on his summer holidays at Trouville — spent between Captain Barbey 's parrot and Mme Schlesinger 's dog — as among the few tranquil times of his life . |
| 29 | Among the few who have tried to compare the two regions , French and Smith ( 1985 ) are concerned particularly with subpolar tundra , and Aleksandrova ( 1980 ) prescribes a simple geobotanical regional zoning that covers both polar and subpolar zones at both ends of the world . |
| 30 | Arctic char Salvelinus alpinus , which spawn in rivers and fatten in the sea during their fourth and fifth years , capelin Mallotus villosus , which winter in deep water but rise to form huge surface shoals in summer , and arctic cod Boreogadus saida are among the few pelagic , plankton-feeding fish in both polar and subpolar waters . |