Example sentences of "a chosen few " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ali were doomed to perish except a chosen few , a very few . |
| 2 | They will have to find the right balance between rule by unwieldy committee and by a chosen few ( or fewer , as at Clifford Chance , which has a partners ' council but where power , in practice , largely rests with the managing partner ) . |
| 3 | As for the branches , it is perhaps invidious to focus upon a chosen few since in some places merely to carry on unheralded was a considerable triumph . |
| 4 | It would be dry and acid , revealed only to a chosen few . |
| 5 | Burton was in his Valhalla : a company largely of men , a chosen few , who could endure ancient and god-like debauches , sing old songs , recite the enduring poetry of the race spin yarns which threaded together truth and fiction in a seamless flow of talk — while outside there was world war and the danger of war to which they were all headed and of which they were all unafraid . |
| 6 | So God 's promises to Abraham were not just for the selfish enjoyment of a chosen few . |
| 7 | She dreaded being called a learned lady : her mother said that ‘ she was a living library ; but locked up , except to a chosen few . ’ |
| 8 | it 's only a chosen few that can understand him at that speed . |