Example sentences of "one [prep] [art] [adv] few " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rostov was one of a very few special exceptions to the Imperial edict which excluded commoners from access to the bi-annual treatment which was necessary for administration of the drug , but he saw no reason to apprise the Adjudicator of the fact . |
| 2 | A very warm day here at Lord 's , breeze just starting to get up a little , in fact the sun has just disappeared behind one of a very few clouds . |
| 3 | The calf-bearer is one of the comparatively few male figures dedicated on the Acropolis . |
| 4 | The London County Council , for long a stronghold of the Labour party , was one of the relatively few authorities to press firmly in this direction in the immediate post-war years . |
| 5 | His work must , therefore , be considered as one of the very few character/national ballets of its time , like the Russian ballets of Fokine . |
| 6 | Steve Meyers claimed one of the very few good problems left at Tremadog when he found a way through the steep ground right of Erebus , providing No Holds Barred E6 6c . |
| 7 | Yardley , a second- or third-change bowler throughout his career , was rightly proud to be one of the very few who could claim to have dismissed Bradman thrice in Test matches . |
| 8 | The peak can be climbed as part of Kungsleden , the King 's Route , an excellent if over-populated route and one of the very few waymarked trails in the Arctic . |
| 9 | Perhaps the most famous incumbent of Stanton Lacy is poor Robert Foulkes , who was one of the very few clergymen ever to have been executed for murder . |
| 10 | The car was parked neatly between two patches of off-street parking , in one of the very few parts of the street that was neither metered nor dedicated to residents ' parking . |
| 11 | I know that sounds obvious but even nine years after I designed it , I still have one of the very few adjustable-height lecterns in the UK . |
| 12 | Perkin , I thought , was one of the very few people who 'd known about the camera and the trail . |
| 13 | Why he was dragged out in 1558 and transformed from an obscure apostate into one of the very few great martyrs of the Scottish Reformation , remains a mystery . |
| 14 | Still , the busy street is home to one of the very few city-centre supermarkets ( a grand title for a relatively small shop , but it does capture the flavour ) . |
| 15 | This quotation is one of the very few places in his work where he actually mentions soil erosion . |
| 16 | There was a luxurious pleasure in being able to share a secret with one of the very few people he could call a friend , but this time he could resist . |
| 17 | Portadown is one of the very few Irish Circuits in which an adequate provision is made for the sustentation of Ministers on the spot . ’ |
| 18 | Patsy remains one of the very few sexual renegades who have dared to wear women 's clothes in front of their teammates . |
| 19 | Richter is one of the very few artists making recordings of standard repertoire who are so awe-inspiring in their comprehensiveness that the long list of comparative versions becomes a virtual irrelevance . |
| 20 | When the old Roman city was revived and became London again , from the late ninth century on , one of its prime functions in the eyes of King Alfred and his successors was as a bulwark against the Danes ; his boroughs had a major defensive role to play , and London was the greatest of them — one of the very few cities of this age which came wholly to fill a Roman enceinte . |
| 21 | The party disintegrated and with it went one of the very few sensible perspectives on the Free City 's position . |
| 22 | That policy was reasonable in a buoyant market , but the directors now feel that even capitalisation should discontinue : ‘ Your company is one of the very few in the sector which does not capitalise any interest or other finance costs and has no off-balance sheet accounting of any kind . ’ |
| 23 | He was one of the very few left of the Bruce 's close company , even if no paladin . |
| 24 | Tanzania is one of the very few countries in Africa that broadcasts in only one African language plus that of the former colonial power . |
| 25 | The ideal Family hotel , the Sandbanks is one of the only hotels in the area situated right on the beach , one of the very few in the UK to hold the coveted EEC Blue Flag Award for clean beaches . |
| 26 | NME remains one of the very few places the featherbed treatment is n't guaranteed . |
| 27 | This piece of furniture is one of the very few genuine antique pieces in the house , and could well have been an eighteenth-century travelling craftsman 's miniature . |
| 28 | Judging from the photograph , Joseph Noel Paton 's Crimean War weepie ‘ Home ’ is one of the very few narrative pictures which might be up to the standard of this ideal exhibition . |
| 29 | This is his story as a PoW and his eventual escape ( one of the very few ) from capture . |
| 30 | It is one of the very few search firms whose results are published in Kompass , which reveals not only the firm 's rapid rise in turnover but a striking rate of return on capital employed , indicating the potentially very profitable nature of the headhunting business . |