Example sentences of "of [art] few people " in BNC.
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| 1 | Representatives of the few people they had come to know in the course of their wanderings round the world were left to clear up . |
| 2 | He is one of the few people I have ever met who has never been either inflated or deflated by personal possessions . |
| 3 | Sylvia is one of the few people who has learnt to interpret Elaine 's noises . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | She was one of the few people in the world who genuinely found Henry funny . |
| 9 | Should we listen to the few objections of the few people affected ? |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | I 'm one of the few people who can really claim to have gone with Noakes . ’ |
| 12 | I was one of the few people who understood him . ’ |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 … |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | In the last years she was one of the few people to visit her in her room . |
| 21 | And she suddenly realized that Derek Fairfax was one of the few people who would view matters in the same light as her . |
| 22 | Jahanbini had been one of the few people to have known for almost a month that they were going to leave Iran . |
| 23 | She was one of the few people in Iran who dared speak her mind to him ( perhaps the sole person ) , but what was on her mind was not to everyone 's liking . |
| 24 | She was one of the few people who rose early in the morning to greet him on his release from prison in 1897 . |
| 25 | Already you are familiar with my lifestyle , my hobbies ; you are even one of the few people who know of Gabriella . ’ |
| 26 | After all , he reflected , I am one of the few people in the world who is n't worth blackmailing . |
| 27 | At any rate , I can say that I am one of the few people who saw T. S. Eliot with his trousers down . |
| 28 | ‘ And I was probably one of the few people who ever paid It ’ , he suggests . |
| 29 | Cos I had studied the chart to k know something about er and I I presume I was one of the few people in New York , who knew the damn thing was on 's Island you see . |
| 30 | Teresa Darrell is a most unhappy creature who lost her young husband shortly after their honeymoon , and I am one of the few people left who can remember and mourn him . ’ |