Example sentences of "[art] few occasions " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the few occasions that United Biscuits ever took a hasty decision was when it bought a company in Spain at a time when it felt under pressure to expand into Europe . |
| 2 | On the few occasions when I had ventured a criticism , he always picked on some word or expression I used to prove his point , claiming that it was a subconscious betrayal of my true nature and my real thought . |
| 3 | On the few occasions when parents have taken their grievances over sex discrimination to the courts , the question has concerned school admissions and single-sex schooling , which was discussed in Chapter 4 in the context of parental choice . |
| 4 | On the few occasions that he had gone down to The priory with the lad , his parents had treated him as one of the family . |
| 5 | As I understood , he was asleep for much of the time , and indeed , I found him so on the few occasions I had a spare moment to ascend to that little attic room . |
| 6 | It was also one of the few occasions where the singer 's sense of humour was enticed from the shell . |
| 7 | On the few occasions I have met him it has been very difficult for me not to let slip something about you . |
| 8 | The group 's sound engineer , Mike Stout , deputised and also stood in on the few occasions Solowka chose to attend Leeds United matches instead of gigs . |
| 9 | One of the few occasions big bream spend any length of time in marginal weed is the two or three weeks in spring or early summer when they spawn . |
| 10 | On the few occasions when the wind was not blowing a gale , the fog descended like a shroud . |
| 11 | Breeze , hastening home under a sky full of stars and swift , transparent clouds , remembered the few occasions on which she had passed through its impressive portals . |
| 12 | It became known that we were perilously short of hay because the haytiming on our pastures had been very poor that summer and it was impossible to bring enough in on the horse-drawn sledge on the few occasions we were able to get out . |
| 13 | There were dances in the Hut by the Strathmore Arms and when we grew up a bit and thought our fathers would n't find out we would nip into the Strathmore Arms for a pint , on the few occasions we could afford . |
| 14 | He was perfectly amiable to her on the few occasions when they did meet ; sometimes she even felt that he liked her . |
| 15 | Alice never spoke of him except casually but on the few occasions , like last night 's dinner party , when she had seen them together they seemed to have the intuitive mutual awareness , an instinctive response to the other 's needs , more typical of a long-standing successful marriage than of an apparently casual fraternal relationship . |
| 16 | This ranks as one of the few occasions in the past 20 years when I have forked out for a little bottle . |
| 17 | On the few occasions that Tamar had come down to the farm , or visited her mother and Elizabeth in the market , she had chosen Goody to drive her . |
| 18 | The political activity around Clause 28 was one of the few occasions when lesbians and gay men have worked together and successfully expressed their anger . |
| 19 | On the few occasions when she had been compelled to enter the water , she had stayed in the very shallowest part of the pool and had never for a moment released her grip on the handrail . |
| 20 | On the few occasions on which she and Hugh had met since that time , neither of them had ever said a word about that holiday . |
| 21 | In fact , there 's a simple explanation for the loopily lopsided emphasis , spelled out by the BBC 's Election 92 editor , Peter Horrocks : ‘ Election night is one of the few occasions when BBC and ITV are in direct competition with the same programming . ’ |
| 22 | This was one of the few occasions when Joan was unable to accompany her half-sister . |
| 23 | One of the few occasions for sharp words between them , in public at any rate , occurred when Elena disagreed about internal decorations with him . |
| 24 | He used to work as a policeman and , on the few occasions when he was in extreme danger , automatically did whatever had to be done without any thought for his own safety . |
| 25 | THE generally held belief that the marriage of Diana and Charles has broken down seems to depend on photographs of the couple on the few occasions on which they appear together in public . |
| 26 | He was impressed by her intelligence and , on the few occasions when he asked her opinion , by the growing assurance of her taste . |
| 27 | It was n't that the Captain had anything specific to ask him , but on the few occasions they had worked together the Marshal had always had something helpful to offer . |
| 28 | One of the few occasions when she had been really cross with me had been when I suggested he might have been wiser to make some sort of provision for his wife and son . |
| 29 | On the few occasions when a particularly serious accident involving great loss of life or a very large aircraft occurs , the Secretary of State will order a public inquiry . |
| 30 | While this does not appear to be such an earth shattering decision , it is one of the few occasions when a coroner 's action has been criticised . |