Example sentences of "of [art] few [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has achieved his success through his own talent , the support of his parents , and the skill and guidance of David Lloyd , the fiercely independent former British Davis Cup player whose mushrooming tennis centres have been one of the few success stories in British tennis in the last decade . |
| 2 | The tourist or business or conference traveller will more often than not travel on a plane manufactured by one of the few aerospace TNCs that dominate the civil airline industry , occupy a hotel room subcontracted to or owned or managed by the local affiliate of one of the few chains that dominate the global hotel industry , hire a car from an agency of one of the international firms that dominate the car rental industry , and will pay for all this with one of the credit cards issued by the few TNCs that control global personal finance . |
| 3 | Designworks is one of the few budget drawing packages that is n't derived from a larger , more expensive product . |
| 4 | Paradise Cars in Oxford is one of the few taxi firms run by women for women . |
| 5 | The alder is one of the few tree species to fix nitrogen on a significant scale ; one theory is that atmospheric and water enrichment with nitrogen is upsetting the delicate relationship between the trees and soil micro-organisms . |
| 6 | Equally coveted were a magnificent pair of Louis XVI ormolu-mounted Boulle marquetry and Japanese lacquer commodes by Etienne Levasseur which had the added distinction of being beautiful , practical and with an eighteenth-century provenance ( one of the few Patiño pieces with that distinction ) , made for the great connoisseur Pierre Louis-Paul Randon de Boisset . |
| 7 | If you enjoy the sensation of being an integral part of the driving experience , with all that that entails , then this 911 is one of the few road cars which still has what it takes to excite you . |
| 8 | It is one of the few stone galleries . |
| 9 | The hon. Lady is right — the tragedy is that Britain is one of the few member states which could have met the convergence conditions of the EMU almost immediately . |
| 10 | The meeting immediately elected Moore , an instinctive populist and one of the few member of the Cabinet with genuinely working class credentials , to lead the party and to attempt to restore those areas of traditional Labour support eroded by Rogernomics . |
| 11 | ‘ She 's very creative , ’ says PWL managing director David Howells , one of the few music industry figures who have seen Kylie 's work . |
| 12 | Billed as ‘ the silliest tour we 've done … very pantomime ’ , it 's one of the few winter tours selling well in a chilly economic climate — testimony again to the loyalty afforded the duo by their UK following . |
| 13 | Whether it was to share his moment of regret at the passing of time , or to express disillusion with Parkin himself — she had made some comment in the car about how he was one of the few television reporters she knew and respected — Dexter did not know . |
| 14 | Corporate finance specialists see insurance as one of the few growth areas in Europe in the short and medium term . |
| 15 | Our way was up to one of the few glacier tongues that was n't too steep and broken up by crevasses . |
| 16 | Historical comparisons between the results of the few surveillance studies of locally confined disease with results of treatment studies are not conclusive . |
| 17 | yeah he 's one of the few doctor 's that 's not seemingly not all for what he can get , he seems to be a genuine caring chap I mean a lot of doctor 's they burn the candles at both ends |
| 18 | As a result , Antarctic science was one of the few research disciplines to receive a significant funding boost in the 1980s . |
| 19 | Apparently we 're one of the few beer hostelries , so to speak , like pubs and clubs and things like that , that make their profit purely |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | He was on the centre-right of the party , had been one of the few Democrat leaders to endorse the use of military force against Iraq prior to the launching of the Gulf War , and was a native of the South — where the party had to improve its electoral showing in order to win the presidency . |
| 22 | From the controls of our very own Sherman and his partner Steve Dray , comes one of the few techno records I 've heard that has a real big city passion and a cinematic panorama to it . |
| 23 | Blake is one of the few techno artists who chooses to use his voice , and his semi-whispered seductions have earned him the title of ‘ The Prince Of Techno ’ . |
| 24 | To scoffs of disbelief from some delegates , he asserted that , where managed safely and sensibly , nuclear power was one of the few energy sources which did not pollute the atmosphere . |
| 25 | Raeburn Place stages one of the few morning games tomorrow when the Scottish Classics take on their Welsh counterparts at 11am . |
| 26 | The Child Support Agency is probably one of the few agency organizations within this country that actually |
| 27 | His mother had spoken to Mr McDoodle , who owned one of the few horse and carts in the village , asking him if he could take Endill to the nearest train station which was over the hills in the town of Moorloch . |
| 28 | TEENAGE vandals are targeting one of the few leisure facilities in north Belfast . |
| 29 | A similar portfolio had enabled another ‘ unemployable ’ student to obtain freelance work as one of the few fashion models in a wheelchair . |
| 30 | The viaduct carrying the Mallaig section of the West Highland Railway round the head of Loch Shiel is one of the few railway viaducts to be built of concrete . |