Example sentences of "of [art] few [noun pl] [det] " in BNC.

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1 But Mr Swash said : ‘ These parties are one of the few occasions some people get out .
2 One arrived at the bedside of a total stranger , and inside of a few hours that stranger became not merely the most important person in the world , but one 's entire world .
3 I decided to put pen to paper and let you know of a few problems some of us have in trying to become machine knitters .
4 Cystoids ( class Cystoidea ) are even odder animals : often rather irregular bags of calcite plates , or if composed of a few plates these may carry powerful ribbing .
5 In fact , with the exception of a few critics such as Lytton Strachey who noticed ‘ the melancholy of regretful recollection , of bitter speculation , of immortal longings unsatisfied ’ , the poems of 1912–13 attracted little attention .
6 The Supreme Soviet usually met for two sessions of a few days each year .
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