Example sentences of "[prep] the few remaining [noun pl] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Opposition Members would welcome the opportunity to debate Government and Opposition policies during the general election campaign , but , given that the Prime Minister does not have the guts to call an election , can you please ensure that , during the few remaining weeks of the Government 's period of office , Prime Minister 's Question Time will be used to ask the Prime Minister questions about Government policy ? |
| 2 | Working with environmentalist groups , the Guarani Indians argue that Brazil can not afford to lose any more of the few remaining areas of Atlantic rainforest , of which only 5 per cent is intact . |
| 3 | On the wall at the end of the Long Room hangs one of the few remaining copies of the Proclamation of the Irish Republic , which was read aloud at the General Post Office on Easter Monday 1916 . |
| 4 | In June , one of the few remaining sections of single line on the main road in Croydon was doubled , that between Aberdeen Road and Parker Road , South End . |
| 5 | A marvellous stylistic contrast to the intricacy and sophistication of these magnificent Court carpets can be seen in the delightful Marby rug — named after the Swedish village in whose church it was found — which is one of the few remaining examples of the first Anatolian or Caucasian rugs to be brought into the West . |
| 6 | The Fund also wished to cut the public wage bill ( increase unemployment ) ; lift import controls ( allowing an influx of consumer goods , thereby undermining local production ) ; privatize national industries at outrageously discounted prices ; raise interest rates ( also hitting the competitiveness of local producers ) ; and remove exchange controls ( ‘ so that a privileged few could legitimately drain the country of the few remaining dregs of foreign reserves ’ ) . |
| 7 | Mid Essex Mental Health Services is one of the few remaining branches of the NHS in the county still answerable directly to its local health authority rather than having trust status . |
| 8 | It also happens to have very valuable timber , and the Chilean government is anxious to profit from the dead trees that are interspersed with living ones in the few remaining areas of forest where alerce still occurs . |