Example sentences of "of the few [noun pl] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the few things we do n't know , though , are their slogans . |
| 2 | Well I would n't worry too much about cramming it all together tightly because it 's erm one of the few things we 've still got a budget for is photocopying student questionnaires so you m you know , you might as well take advantage of that , it does n't erm it does n't cost you anything and the actual difference it makes to the university and to erm world resources is very slight indeed I think |
| 3 | Paying off the debt meant cutting consumption at home of the few things which were imported and almost anything which might be exported . |
| 4 | We charge the highest rate in the country for issuing fire certificates which is one of the few things which we 're actually allowed to charge , and we charge more than virtually any other authority in this country . |
| 5 | One of the few things he could instantly recall from his own brief marriage was his wife 's grilling a kipper on a gridiron over the fire . |
| 6 | ONE OF the few things you can do more efficiently in an aircraft than anywhere else is get drunk . |
| 7 | While we 're on this question , one of the few things that er Theresa did n't say , although perhaps she might have said it when I was n't , I do n't think she did but one of the few things she did n't say is why Freud disapproved of the typical kind of dream book you find in any book shop . |
| 8 | ‘ Vicky adores the dog and she is one of the few things she is interested in . |
| 9 | ‘ The frets were one of the few things I actually bought for the guitar . |
| 10 | Er , one of the paradoxes of the modern era as er , pointed out by Tom Peters , not by me , one of the few things I do not claim original thought on , erm , is , is that it 's not that we , people think that we do n't have enough information at our fingertips and are constantly striving to gather more and more , the opposite is actually true . |
| 11 | ‘ If you wear that , ’ he said curtly , ‘ you 'll destroy one of the few things your father possessed . |
| 12 | And your cousin was one of the first one of the few women I ever knew , who could take shorthand in Welsh . |
| 13 | One of the few women who had done so over time without the complement of sexual gratification . |
| 14 | One of the few complaints which I would make is that the actor looks much too spruce for someone who is living rough in every sense of the word — forever dossing down in stations and trains and consuming endless quantities of the most vicious liquors . |
| 15 | It is believed to be one of the few parasites which has become free-living . |
| 16 | Furthermore , this is one of the few studies which gives an account of the feelings after the task was completed . |
| 17 | " Dr Dunstaple , please ! " protested the Magistrate , who was one of the few cantonment-dwellers who had never experienced any affection for Dr Dunstaple . |
| 18 | One of the few skills I possess is the ability to type with ten fingers . |
| 19 | ( One of the few times we missed out was with a 200lb sturgeon caught in the North Sea . |
| 20 | In fact , it was one of the few times I had seen him act in a civil way towards his stepmother . |
| 21 | One of the few times you will find big bream in waters which do not match up to the points I have mentioned is when they are the result of a recent stocking operation . |
| 22 | It was one of the few times he did n't get up and down from trouble , and that put us level . |
| 23 | And er we , one of the few times my dad came to Foundry Lane he I got a book , I think it were called Tiger Tim and , on the back they gave a model that you cut out with scissors and pu |
| 24 | Even Graham , one of the few members who had left home and lived in a flat , would be helping in the campaign , although he would not be voting Conservative , so much did he dislike the personality and politics of the local MP . |
| 25 | And rather alarmingly in a third , she lay flat on the balustrade of the gallery with one leg pointing towards a portrait of the Duke of Wellington who , with Lord Palmerston , was one of the few statesmen whose private life had been sufficiently scandalous to qualify him to be a ffeatherstonehaugh hero . |
| 26 | So that 's one of the few options you 've got at the moment . |
| 27 | As he left the house Huy glanced around the square , and along the streets that led from it ; but there was no movement at any of the few windows which looked on to the street , and the handful of people about were all familiar to him . |
| 28 | The ancient Forest of Naddle , with deciduous trees , is one of the few areas which remain to show the natural tree growth of the region . |
| 29 | For them this meeting may be one of the few contacts they have with the Church . |
| 30 | Mr Johnston , who stood on a ‘ Save Our Townlands ’ ticket in the council elections of 1977 , said : ‘ It is one of the few powers which councils have left that they can enforce the format for local addresses . |