Example sentences of "of [art] relatively few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | I begin here , therefore , with a discussion of the relatively few reports of attempts to replicate and extend his findings . |
2 | The London County Council , for long a stronghold of the Labour party , was one of the relatively few authorities to press firmly in this direction in the immediate post-war years . |
3 | This will be followed by a consideration of the relatively few attempts systematically to distinguish the social properties of the object from those of language as expressive medium . |
4 | Of the relatively few exceptions to the pattern two which call for mention are Chicheley Hall , Buckinghamshire ( 1719–21 ) , and Sutton Scarsdale , Derbyshire ( begun 1724 ) : the exotic façade of the former probably owes more to the taste of the patron , Sir John Chester , than to Smith 's own devising ; but Sutton Scarsdale , in part evidently inspired by Gibbs 's unexecuted design of 1721 for the university buildings at Cambridge , is his finest work , a wholly convincing essay in the heroic grand manner , in which the giant Corinthian order is handled with total assurance . |
5 | Before the 1850s this had been a problem of a relatively few families ; in some countries , such as Germany , of hardly any . |
6 | On three , if you see then three that we the county council will not support a development of capital , cabinet or executive management , arrangements which would tend to concentrate power in the hands of a relatively few members stifle public debate and diminish the role of the majority of members . |