Example sentences of "as [adj] of [art] few " in BNC.
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1 | Marko Radoman , 103 , and a veteran of both Balkan wars , was given a place at the front as one of the few with personal memories of Nicholas 's reign . |
2 | He saw rubber fetishism as one of the few remaining genuine underground cultures . |
3 | As one of the few major acoustic companies who are n't trying to emulate anyone else , Lowden 's guitars have great strength of character and thus tend to polarise guitarists into two camps : those who utterly adore them , and those who are left dry-eyed and unmoved . |
4 | But for now , pilots like the Trislander as one of the few aircraft which allows real flying in today 's increasingly automated world . |
5 | Corporate finance specialists see insurance as one of the few growth areas in Europe in the short and medium term . |
6 | SUNSCREEM ARE about as far removed from rock music and spurious notions of ‘ cutting it live ’ as it 's possible to get , but as one of the few rave-oriented acts around who actually play live they could teach a lot of aspiring indie acts a thing or seven about live entertainment . |
7 | But the first real headhunting boom began in the late 1970s and early 1980s , when the recession really began to bite ; executive search may be seen as one of the few industries which grew in this period . |
8 | A similar portfolio had enabled another ‘ unemployable ’ student to obtain freelance work as one of the few fashion models in a wheelchair . |
9 | Motion three two three is quite right to criticize the blatantly political proposal to remove the May Day holiday which would leave the U K as one of the few civilized countries without a day to acknowledge the labour movement . |
10 | Most people would have keyed in their birthday as one of the few six-digit numbers — if you put a zero in front of single figures and for the months up to October and just the last two digits of the year — they can remember apart from their telephone number . |
11 | Having lacked the opportunity to create a new constitutional framework afresh from first principles , Britain now stands out as one of the few nations lacking such a document . |
12 | We know for instance that quite often erm pillaged flocks of cows and sheep were driven into the quad as one of the few open spaces within the city walls . |
13 | These two universities have been involved as two of the few in Britain with expertise in both theology and development . |