Example sentences of "of [art] few [adj] men " in BNC.

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1 Two of the shipmasters were dead , and three wounded ; but the last was by chance one of the few uninjured men , and could be left in charge of all for the moment .
2 Wolfe and his opponent Montcalm were mortally wounded in the small-scale encounter of a few thousand men which affected the history of North America as decisively as Plassey affected the history of India .
3 Then , in the space of eighteen months , from commanding a regiment of a few thousand men he was to rise to be an Army Commander with over half-a-million at his behest .
4 Once in a while at least , the philosopher must be allowed to approach the psychologist as a counsellor and to say : if you leave the Sorbonne by the exit in the Rue Saint-Jacques , you can either turn up the hill or go down towards the river : if you go up , you will get to the Panthéon which is the resting place of a few great men , but if you go downhill then you 're bound to end up at the Préfecture de Police .
5 Remember the fighting qualities of the Maccabeans ; think of the Warsaw ghetto and the amazing resistance therein of a few ordinary men and women who fought a whole battalion of Nazi storm-troopers , while Polish people stood by and wondered at such bravery .
6 It further characterized the Campaign as being the personal machine of a few wealthy men , particularly of Strauss , Strachey , Cripps and Gollancz .
7 And what 's more , if she 'd been about in your time , instead of that man , nice little Neville Chamberlain , she 'd have given your old Hitler a few right-handers below the belt ; and seen to it that Britain was armed to the teeth , with an airforce twice the size of the Luftwaffe instead of a few old men with pitch forks and a handful of plucky chaps like yourself to keep the Nazis out .
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