Example sentences of "from the few [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was also obsessed by an imagined threat from the few remaining ex-revolutionaries . |
| 2 | No signed or documented work by her is known and what can be assembled as an oeuvre emerges from the few surviving miniatures between 1545 and 1575 . |
| 3 | In 1887 Polish was officially banned even from the few private bilingual schools of Pomerania , and children heard speaking Polish were threatened with public flogging . |
| 4 | The two or three families who had come without money or slaves and who had kept themselves rigorously segregated from the few black people they found already on the island , were still shunning newcomers . |
| 5 | International conferences could provide the vehicle for international co-operation and co-ordination , but apart from the few international conferences organized by the British Library and by the International Association of Technological University Libraries ( IATUL ) there have not been many more than a dozen , and none of these has focused on the need for international co-ordination ; although they have kindled a certain amount of international co.operation . |
| 6 | We heard from the few local women who did attend how they took the law into their own hands and arranged regular supplies of contraceptives from the North . |
| 7 | Apart from the few ornamental buildings , it was an unattractive little town , built from mud . |
| 8 | He has planted himself and his small company betimes ; indeed , apart from the few native people as I say , there is no one here to give us hindrance in our enterprise . |