Example sentences of "of his few [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was one of his few boasts that he had never taken an academic examination in his life . |
| 2 | But the quality of his few compositions makes him not the least important of an influential group of musicians active around the turn of the century . |
| 3 | Brought up as a Catholic , he was educated at Stonyhurst , where even one of his few school friends described him as ‘ the ungainliest of boys with a huge head ’ . |
| 4 | In the autumn , in Champagne , Pétain had one of his few failures . |
| 5 | In one of his few appearances for the junior teams at Preston somebody threw the ball at him and said : ‘ You play soccer , you have a go . ’ |
| 6 | Playing one of his few games in goal for Scotland , the Perth-born keeper , rolled the ball out to the experienced Manchester City fullback Willie Donachie ; with a shot of slide-rule perfection , Donachie lobbed the stranded Blyth , scoring a perfect own goal which gave Wales a fortunate draw . |
| 7 | Quoted by Samuel Johnson [ q.v. ] in volume two of his Dictionary ( in spirit , if not literally , one of his few infringements of his principle of excluding living authors ) , it is couched in the Scriblerian tradition of ironic instruction in undesirable skills . |
| 8 | David Thomson felt that , ‘ Hoffman seemed at a loss … in one of his few concessions to the big-salary syndrome . ’ |
| 9 | Boyd says that Scandal , the film about the Profumo affair ( one of his few ideas which did materialise ) has ‘ not yet shown any profits ’ . |