Example sentences of "of [art] few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ONE OF the few things you can do more efficiently in an aircraft than anywhere else is get drunk . |
| 2 | One of the few things that keeps movies worth watching is the vitality of all the marvellous comedians from Saturday Night Live and SCTV : Bill Murray , John Candy and so on , terrific personalities who can bring a vibrancy even to dead scripts . ’ |
| 3 | One of the few things he could instantly recall from his own brief marriage was his wife 's grilling a kipper on a gridiron over the fire . |
| 4 | These days they appear infrequently , but the prospect of a shopping expedition is one of the few things that are guaranteed to bring them out . |
| 5 | Mice were one of the few things that Miss Fogerty could not endure . |
| 6 | It is called Macrae 's Monument and is one of the few things left in Ayrshire to remind us of a very remarkable man called James Macrae . |
| 7 | One of the few things we do n't know , though , are their slogans . |
| 8 | ‘ The frets were one of the few things I actually bought for the guitar . |
| 9 | Paying off the debt meant cutting consumption at home of the few things which were imported and almost anything which might be exported . |
| 10 | Staring is one of the few things frogs are good at . |
| 11 | One of the few things about the penal system that almost everyone agrees on is that England and Wales have an alarmingly high ( and most of the time rapidly rising ) number of people in prison . |
| 12 | ‘ It is one of the few things in which I excel , ’ Ratagan said . |
| 13 | ‘ If you wear that , ’ he said curtly , ‘ you 'll destroy one of the few things your father possessed . |
| 14 | The Dolphin , the Bermuda Suite , Club 93 , the Bingo hall , a large swimming pool , a Sports hall , Amusements , these are just some of the few things that are situated at Highfield Holiday Park , Clacton , where my family and I have been going on Holiday for 10 years . |
| 15 | These were probably one of the few things of mine not due to be on show at the First Church of Christ the Spiritualist later this morning . |
| 16 | One of the few things certain about the outlook is that 1993 will be a difficult year financially . |
| 17 | One of the few things , erm , that I 'm really proud of about myself , is that I 've read all of them . |
| 18 | While we 're on this question , one of the few things that er Theresa did n't say , although perhaps she might have said it when I was n't , I do n't think she did but one of the few things she did n't say is why Freud disapproved of the typical kind of dream book you find in any book shop . |
| 19 | While we 're on this question , one of the few things that er Theresa did n't say , although perhaps she might have said it when I was n't , I do n't think she did but one of the few things she did n't say is why Freud disapproved of the typical kind of dream book you find in any book shop . |
| 20 | One of the few things predictable about future input technology is that it will include an optical scan element which will be at its best handling the output from IT related machines . |
| 21 | We charge the highest rate in the country for issuing fire certificates which is one of the few things which we 're actually allowed to charge , and we charge more than virtually any other authority in this country . |
| 22 | Er , we looked at it as you know when we were considering reorganisation of committees and I think this is perhaps one of the few things to come out of all that . |
| 23 | Well I would n't worry too much about cramming it all together tightly because it 's erm one of the few things we 've still got a budget for is photocopying student questionnaires so you m you know , you might as well take advantage of that , it does n't erm it does n't cost you anything and the actual difference it makes to the university and to erm world resources is very slight indeed I think |
| 24 | Er , one of the paradoxes of the modern era as er , pointed out by Tom Peters , not by me , one of the few things I do not claim original thought on , erm , is , is that it 's not that we , people think that we do n't have enough information at our fingertips and are constantly striving to gather more and more , the opposite is actually true . |
| 25 | ‘ Vicky adores the dog and she is one of the few things she is interested in . |
| 26 | Um and erm that might be that 's one of th some of the few things that the library 's got but erm er anyway . |
| 27 | The screening will follow a Guardian Talk with Lynda La Plante , one of the few women to have established herself in television drama as a writer . |
| 28 | From the City came English Trust 's Susanna Todd , one of the few women directors of a merchant bank . |
| 29 | Livée played the spinet and was one of the few women in France to have mastered the analytical geometry of René Descartes . |
| 30 | When I graduated in Economic and Social History from Bristol in 1982 I had no idea that I would be earning my living as a thatcher , one of the few women working in that field , some eight years later . |