Example sentences of "one of the few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 31 | One of the few companies to have had any serious success in selling generic products is Interactive Information Systems ( IIS ) who offer their customers the opportunity to lease the hardware needed to run the laser disc applications . |
| 32 | We are one of the few companies in the pet food industry not to have seen a decline in sales during this period as wholesalers and retailers reduce stocks to compensate for the high interest rates . |
| 33 | Stoddard Templeton is one of the few companies to become a Registered Firm under this scheme . |
| 34 | Well good luck to you because er you know I can tell you right now we are one of the few companies that take on people in their fifties . |
| 35 | According to Fidelity — one of the few companies which is to date offering these funds — the yield on its Tax Free Income Plan ( a unit trust comprising 51 per cent equities and 49 per cent bonds ) will fall from about 6 per cent now to 5.75 per cent after 5 April . |
| 36 | Latinos surged up to Hollywood Boulevard , one of the few breakthroughs from south of the Santa Monica Freeway , and trashed better-bred temples of consumption , such as Fredericks of Hollywood , the famous knicker store . |
| 37 | ( One of the few times we missed out was with a 200lb sturgeon caught in the North Sea . |
| 38 | One day Tony gets up to watch and witnesses one of the few times when the sun travels across a blue , cloudless sky . |
| 39 | ‘ A mirror , ’ Reynard repeats , realising this is one of the few times in his life he 's been surprised . |
| 40 | It was one of the few times that the pulp glossy pop press produced journalism worth reading . |
| 41 | It was one of the few times he did n't get up and down from trouble , and that put us level . |
| 42 | 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 . |
| 43 | In fact , it was one of the few times I had seen him act in a civil way towards his stepmother . |
| 44 | She could look back on that time with a great deal of fondness ; it had been one of the few times in her life when she had been truly free — there had been no one , neither family , friends nor employer — to make demands on her . |
| 45 | It was a perfect day of hot sun with a light following wind , one of the few times that we were able to sunbathe . |
| 46 | Edward sat frozen , one of the few times in his life he had been genuinely frightened . |
| 47 | It was one of the few times in my life when I actually spoke the truth . |
| 48 | 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 |
| 49 | One of the few problems Julie and her husband faced was choosing tiles for the splashback . |
| 50 | Anderson was one of the few members of the British colonial administration who , remaining in Africa after British colonialism retreated , made a successful transition to serving the independent governments of the continent . |
| 51 | Mr Smith , 53 , is one of the few members of Labour 's front-bench team with Cabinet experience . |
| 52 | She was one of the few members of the artistic community who admitted to religious observance . |
| 53 | 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 . |
| 54 | It 's one of the few herds left with no Canadian or American blood . |
| 55 | That decentralized state structures serve to reduce the scope of welfare state expansion and socialist incumbency is one of the few findings in the comparative public policy literature on which there is near unanimity ( Castles , 1985 , p. 120 ) . |
| 56 | From Australia , former Woodworker editor , Peter Collenette sends a report on the Tasmanian furniture-maker , Alan Livermore , who is one of the few designer-makers to have his designs made in factories and in his own workshop . |
| 57 | One of the few differences between beat policing and assembly-line work was that it contained a measure of unpredictability . |
| 58 | The tourist or business or conference traveller will more often than not travel on a plane manufactured by one of the few aerospace TNCs that dominate the civil airline industry , occupy a hotel room subcontracted to or owned or managed by the local affiliate of one of the few chains that dominate the global hotel industry , hire a car from an agency of one of the international firms that dominate the car rental industry , and will pay for all this with one of the credit cards issued by the few TNCs that control global personal finance . |
| 59 | In a country where the media is state controlled and acts as a mouthpiece for the Party , putting up posters was one of the few forms of communication and free expression . |
| 60 | Community theatre was one of the few forms of communication which managed to flourish under President Stroessner 's dictatorship in Paraguay . |