Example sentences of "the few [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ She 's very creative , ’ says PWL managing director David Howells , one of the few music industry figures who have seen Kylie 's work . |
| 2 | It was one of the few BBC radio shows which played to full houses . |
| 3 | Designworks is one of the few budget drawing packages that is n't derived from a larger , more expensive product . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Scrum-half Ant Strachan ( centre ) and flanker Paul Henderson ( left ) take on the Ireland defence , while John Kirwan — one of the few World Cup players to prosper under Mains ' regime — looks to support . |
| 6 | As one of the few Gloucestershire cloth mills still in operation , may it long continue . |
| 7 | Even today weather reports are sometimes incorrect owing to the vagaries of our climate , but then , with the whole of western Europe blanked out ( thanks to Hitler ) , together with most of Ireland , we were very dependent on the few Atlantic weather ships and ( eventually ) our own trained eyes to tell us what was coming . |