Example sentences of "the few [n mass] [pron] " in BNC.
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1 | It is therefore all the more significant that , among the few statistics it does contain , data on variations in performance between providers feature so prominently — 50% variation in acute hospital treatment costs , for example , or 100% variation in general practitioner prescribing costs . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | But for now , pilots like the Trislander as one of the few aircraft which allows real flying in today 's increasingly automated world . |
4 | Representatives of the few people they had come to know in the course of their wanderings round the world were left to clear up . |
5 | At 82 , the few people one might wish to see are all dead . |
6 | For , as the report went on to show , the problem is not that manufacturers employ too few people , but that the few people whom they do employ produce much less than their counterparts elsewhere in the world . |
7 | She subscribed on the face of it to the proposition that we are not put here to be happy , although she was the first to complain if she , or the few people she loved , were not . |
8 | The few people who were visible looked like a crew of spectres as the shadowed hollows in their faces shifted with the wavering of the flames . |
9 | Sylvia is one of the few people who has learnt to interpret Elaine 's noises . |
10 | 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 . |
11 | 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 . |
12 | Derry politics aroused nothing but distaste for working within the system among the few people who were interested in politics but who were not already involved in one of the two main parties . |
13 | 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 . |
14 | The few people who still live on these remote islands practise traditional Kentish crafts , such as creative in-breeding , undisturbed by motor traffic and other aspects of mainland life . |
15 | I 'm one of the few people who can really claim to have gone with Noakes . ’ |
16 | I was one of the few people who understood him . ’ |
17 | 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 . |
18 | 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 … |
19 | 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 . |
20 | Great claims are made for the technique , by the few people who are selling services of this kind . |
21 | 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 . |
22 | She knew he would be friendless , that , beyond the house , the few people who worked in it and herself , there was no one . |
23 | And she suddenly realized that Derek Fairfax was one of the few people who would view matters in the same light as her . |
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 | At any rate , I can say that I am one of the few people who saw T. S. Eliot with his trousers down . |
27 | ‘ And I was probably one of the few people who ever paid It ’ , he suggests . |
28 | Afterwards Martha provided ham and a salad with hard-boiled eggs like gleaming bald heads sticking out from limp lettuce leaves for the few people who turned up . |
29 | I hung about further down the street , hoping not to be seen by the few people who were strolling there . |
30 | Zaria was one of the few people who could control her when she had the moods . ’ |