Example sentences of "[art] few " in BNC.
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| 31 | ( The allusion to Pope 's ‘ Essay on Man ’ is one of the few that the editors pass over . ) |
| 32 | With a turnover of about £250m , Virgin Records is one of the few independents left in the music business . |
| 33 | For the few considered politically reliable enough to get a closer look , there can be no mistake . |
| 34 | Marko Radoman , 103 , and a veteran of both Balkan wars , was given a place at the front as one of the few with personal memories of Nicholas 's reign . |
| 35 | In his amateur days he was an ‘ eviction technician ’ ( a fashionable euphemism for bouncer ) but such work is regarded as unseemly for the standard bearer of a sport which prides itself in its healthy clean-living image , and he now supplements his income from the few competitions which pay more than a pittance by personal appearances . |
| 36 | A travel company from Thailand has contacted the People 's Committee about the possibility of bringing in tourists , and the governor of the province , An He , is keen to talk to the few foreigners who pass through about his hypothetical Riviera . |
| 37 | Sylvia is one of the few people who has learnt to interpret Elaine 's noises . |
| 38 | 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 . |
| 39 | The site is particularly important because it is one of the few such castles to have developed out of an earlier Norman stone-built ring-work fort . |
| 40 | In the old days , when land was concentrated in the hands of the few , sensible rights of way were established between cottages tied to the Big House in order that Yeoman A could get to the pump shared with Yeoman B ; Yeoman B , hurrying about his master 's affairs , could cross Yeoman A's garden to get to the shed where the gaffer 's carts were kept . |
| 41 | If you were one of the few to risk the Queen Elizabeth Hall on Monday , you would have been able to find no information about the composers being played . |
| 42 | Economists are warning that a prolonged strike in the industry — one of the few sectors where the US enjoys a positive trade balance — would have a serious impact on the American trade deficit . |
| 43 | Mr Parkinson can turn his back on all this but if he decides to confront it , road pricing is one of the few tools at his disposal . |
| 44 | Speaking the day after Neil Kinnock depicted education and training as the commanding heights of every modern economy , Mr Straw insisted : ‘ We do not believe in the best for the few , but the best for all . |
| 45 | Yardley was proud that he was one of the few bowlers who could claim to have dismissed Bradman three times in Tests . |
| 46 | The US was yesterday sheltering on its bases at least two participants in the coup attempt who were among the few to escape death or capture . |
| 47 | The few remaining Jews in Eastern Europe are being allowed a greater degree of freedom , but so are antisemites . |
| 48 | Chief Buthelezi , one of the few black leaders inside South Africa who has been consistent in opposing sanctions , will address a fringe meeting at the Conservative conference in Blackpool next Tuesday . |
| 49 | No respite for leftist cows IT IS not just the peasants who are revolting in Romania — the few remaining kulaks are also playing up . |
| 50 | Of the few poisonous letters she received , none came from Cleveland . |
| 51 | One of the few collectors dedicated enough to go for the company context is Peter Card , whose collection of 400 old bicycle lamps is without equal . |
| 52 | The New Republic controversy is about prohibition : of the use of drugs which , though extended to all , essentially affect only the few ; and now an attempted prohibition of the very discussion of the issues involved . |
| 53 | As a fellow international lawyer has put it , Akehurst is one of the few who succeeded . |
| 54 | Only the few three-year-old trout in the river and the salmon disappeared temporarily — but were back again within three months . |
| 55 | One of the few genuinely dockland clubs , they won the 1905 FA Amateur Cup as West Hartlepool , then achieved nothing more until they won promotion to the Third . |
| 56 | The Worksop trainer was one of the few who missed seeing the gelding , bought with another yearling for £3,250 , pull six lengths clear . |
| 57 | He still has many supporters , though , among the Western press , who considered him to be one of the few UN bureaucrats with a habit of telling the truth . |
| 58 | The programme will also reveal that Barclays , one of the few major financial organisations willing to talk openly about computer crime , spends £20m every year on computer security . |
| 59 | It is not known whether all the material will be permanently exhibited , because South Cambridgeshire District is one of the few local authorities in Britain not to have a local museum . |
| 60 | BURMAH , the oil group which nearly came to grief in the 1970s stock market crash , was one of the few shares to resist Barclays de Zoete Wedd 's gloomy forecast on shares . |