Example sentences of "of [art] few [n mass] " in BNC.

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1 MAPLE trees , just now unfurling their leaves , are one of the few species known not by their common name but the official botanical one .
2 In the nests of the few species that feed exclusively on carrion , the queen cells and food storage cells are much the same size .
3 Of the few species that do have the opportunity to interbreed , none do so frequently .
4 And I know I was madly , madly involved with the symphony to the extent that when it was done — and it is one of the few works I say this of — I would not dare touch it again .
5 One of the few works in colour is York 's very own Christ Stilleth the Tempest ( 1852 ) , while the rest of the show is a selection of some 104 out of 156 etchings and mezzotints .
6 A shoal makes an impressive sight , especially as they are one of the few catfish active by day .
7 By a conservative appraisal of the few data at hand , she was an engineering success .
8 Art is one of the few means left of making contact with an essentially ‘ good ’ nature .
9 Representatives of the few people they had come to know in the course of their wanderings round the world were left to clear up .
10 He is one of the few people I have ever met who has never been either inflated or deflated by personal possessions .
11 Sylvia is one of the few people who has learnt to interpret Elaine 's noises .
12 He was a trusted friend and one of the few people ever to have been in the Prince 's employ who spoke frankly to him , and when asked would give an honest , if sometimes unwelcome , opinion .
13 Having known the Royal Family all her life , she was easy to talk to , and was one of the few people who knew what Diana was talking about when she spoke about her day-to-day life .
14 Hamad Hasan al-Harash , for example , was a senior official in the Agriculture Department in Kufra ( Zawiya ) , had two well-established irrigated gardens worked by Egyptian labourers in 1975–9 , and was one of the few people who supplied fruit and vegetables to the Kufra market on a regular basis .
15 People bought her lunch and rang her up and sent her birthday cards ; it seemed a particularly cruel joke that one of the few people who really did dislike her should be married to her .
16 She was one of the few people in the world who genuinely found Henry funny .
17 Should we listen to the few objections of the few people affected ?
18 And because he was slightly dim , or at least vulnerable and kind and easily led , being one of the few people I could mock and dominate with impunity , we became mates .
19 I 'm one of the few people who can really claim to have gone with Noakes . ’
20 I was one of the few people who understood him . ’
21 Despite their differences and Leopold 's difficult and austere character , his father 's death robbed Wolfgang of a most loving and tender parent , and of one of the few people who genuinely appreciated and fully comprehended the nature of his genius .
22 When Karen met Robert , teased by his description of himself as ‘ one of the few people who has never seen the ‘ Sound of Music ’ , she thought ‘ nice …
23 The head was away and that was dreadful because he was one of the few people that knew what was going on because the community adviser told him that home/school links was an area that we should think about ; that is the school .
24 Bill Rathje , a professor of archaeology at the University of Arizona , is one of the few people who has burrowed into America 's landfills and weighed and measured their contents — a treatment usually reserved for the dustbins of rock stars .
25 I once watched a television documentary about St Kilda , during which they interviewed some of the few people living who had been born and had spent their youth on the island .
26 As Wayne Gossage has said : " Patricia Knapp was one of the few people in the inner circle of the library-college vanguard who was in any way critical " ( Gossage 1975 : 8 ) and this has been a sad weakness in a movement which , with its enthusiasm and provocative reversal of traditional priorities , has aroused much interest and thought amongst educators , librarians and administrators .
27 She was one of the few people who had no fear of him , even her Chief Constable would be shocked if he heard the way she argued with him sometimes .
28 In the last years she was one of the few people to visit her in her room .
29 And she suddenly realized that Derek Fairfax was one of the few people who would view matters in the same light as her .
30 Jahanbini had been one of the few people to have known for almost a month that they were going to leave Iran .
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