Example sentences of "the few [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the instigation of the Greenock Deaf and Dumb Christian Society , the authorities in Greenock , Scotland , approved the use of a room in Greenock Academy ( opened 1855 ) for the teaching of the few deaf children in the town . |
| 2 | The other day , as a small example , I met a young trainee manager working for one of the few substantial Northern Ireland engineering firms . |
| 3 | Their hoods are manufactured from non-toxic plastic and the do-it-yourself model is one of the few simple hoods available which will accept two fluorescent tube fittings . |
| 4 | On it , perhaps , the few simple words : ‘ To the Jewish emigrants from lands across the seas . |
| 5 | The Sympathetic Hearing Scheme consists of a leaflet for the general public , giving the few simple guidelines , together with a card used by the speechreader . |
| 6 | Still if you already have a spreadsheet machine adding a coprocessor is one of the few easy things that you can do to speed it up . |
| 7 | Teaching was the only practical possibility though one of the few other options was acting as an agent for Tootals ties . |
| 8 | Er the , the only good thing to come out of these proposals is that erm that he supports the erm the appearance of the public enquiry and the sale of erm that , that erm he suggests for example that we should try the airports policy consortium , well we dealt that five years ago when we realised that Surrey and it 's surrounding areas were getting their own pressure group organised to make sure that Stansted got all of the flack got all the , got all the few other things as well . |
| 9 | A grossly unstable patient from a referring hospital turns out to be a typical ( for us ) unstable angina ; a patient with life-threatening ventricular tachycardia can only come to Barts for the appropriate highly specialised medical or nursing therapy ( or one of the few other centres , most of which are also on the Tomlinson hit-list ) . |
| 10 | The few other tourists who had been here had hurried for cover when they had seen the black sky approaching . |
| 11 | ‘ Really , ’ exclaimed in heavily scandalized tones one of the few other passengers braving the last gusts of a salt-laden sirocco up on deck , an Englishwoman in an ample frock loud with different coloured daisies . |
| 12 | The journey went on and on — before long we were travelling at a walking pace , and I and the few other passengers were anxiously clearing the condensation from the windows and peering into the murk in an effort to see where we were . |
| 13 | In the secondary modern schools , though in principle it was pursued as a primary goal , as it was in the few technical schools that survived , yet because of the increasing aspiration within the schools themselves that their pupils should be seen to do as well as grammar school pupils , the practical gradually came to be despised there as well . |
| 14 | If you are one of the few forgetful members who have not renewed for 1986 , it is not too late — Hilda will be delighted to hear from you . |
| 15 | The submersed leaves form attractive rosettes , while the few floating leaves at the crown are small and oval-shaped . |
| 16 | The few biblical texts with the mention of Yavan which can be dated with prod ability before 336 B.C. know the Greeks only as traders — or more generically as one of the nations of the world . |
| 17 | She is also one of the few Labour frontbenchers with ministerial experience , having been a junior Education Minister . |
| 18 | Crime is one of the fastest-growing and one of the few recession-proof industries . |
| 19 | The party managers continued to bewail the organizational weakness of Coalition Liberalism , but there had been little opportunity for organizational collaboration ; one of the few joint ventures , a magazine called Popular View , was abandoned in 1921 because of the impossibility of producing a lively magazine out of continuous compromise . |
| 20 | The few poor sticks that Albert had collected over the years were fit for nothing but firewood . |
| 21 | The few oral statements reported in the text are clearly marked as such so that no one can be in doubt as to their hypothetical nature . |
| 22 | As we came through the gate to look.at the few new lambs |
| 23 | And the few new sites made available through the Countryside Stewardship Access Scheme would be impossible for most people to find , said Douglas Hart , who monitored seven out of the 11 locations in Suffolk . |
| 24 | The few new moves ( the draughtboard ) he had figured out — Christ and he had time and more — in his convalescence . |
| 25 | Introduced in the UK last autumn , GRID is one of the few new cushioning ideas to hit the market in recent times . |
| 26 | TOUR operator Airbreak Leisure Group , one of the few new issues last year , yesterday unveiled more-than-doubled full-year profits up from £711,000 to £1.6m pre-tax . |
| 27 | It is one of the few new entries to a chart dominated by old favourites . |
| 28 | The site is particularly important because it is one of the few such castles to have developed out of an earlier Norman stone-built ring-work fort . |
| 29 | I can swear to every pie I have swallowed , to every cup of sack I have gulped , to the few good women I have met and , thankfully , to every bad woman I have slept with . |
| 30 | In my opinion this was one of the few good things to come out of our membership of the Common Market . |