Few writers have better understood their deepest selves.

Few new writers have their first story accepted, so they tell me.

Few business groups in recent years have come under heavier pressure to face these realities than real estate brokers and home builders.

Few artists have left a life work so eloquent of the period in which they lived.

Few who have painted the scenes around them have done so with so little bitterness.

Few of Salieri's compositions have survived from this early period.

Few Burkinabé have had formal education.

Few undersea craters have been discovered because of the difficulty of surveying the sea floor, the rapid rate of change of the ocean bottom, and the subduction of the ocean floor into the Earth's interior by processes of plate tectonics.

Few lawyers practice trial law or complex litigation and typically refer such cases to those who have the time, resources and experience to handle a complex trial and the commitment involved to complete a trial successfully.

Few scientific investigations into the effectiveness of Dianetics have been published.

Few details of Coleman's medical history have been made public.

Few new jobs have been generated in the formal sector, however, because domestic private sector and foreign investment has dropped and coveted public-sector jobs have been reserved mostly for the small Honduran middle-class with political or military connections.

" Few historians still hold it to have been the greatest issue of the period ..."

Few changes have been made to Ido since 1922.

Few others in the American study of religion have had this kind of impact on students of so many approaches and interests.

Few examples of the Khazar language exist today, mostly in names that have survived in historical sources.

Few Lombard buildings have survived.

Few studies have investigated the effects of morphine on motor abilities ; a high dose of morphine can impair finger tapping and the ability to maintain a low constant level of isometric force ( i. e. fine motor control is impaired ), though no studies have shown a correlation between morphine and gross motor abilities.

Few major biological types have emerged during the evolutionary history of life and most of them survive till today.

Few of them had any publishing experience before they found themselves running Ace.

Few of these areas were annexed to the city, while nearby towns incorporated and expanded themselves.

Few other alterations were made to the monastic buildings themselves: the cloisters, for example, still stand below the living accommodation.

Few batsmen, or writers, announce themselves as Dexter did when batting for Sussex against Surrey at The Oval last summer.

Few, now in command of a company of Georgia Militia, watched the collapse of the campaign's logistical support and then the disintegration of the force itself, as senior officers bickered among themselves and as disease began to decimate the units.

Philip D. Ortego, for example, wrote in 1973: " Few Mexican Americans of Monterey today see themselves in Tortilla Flat any more than their predecessors saw themselves in it thirty-four years ago.

Few activities or structures, in and of themselves and under any and all circumstances, are a nuisance ; which is how courts determine whether or not an action or structure is a nuisance per se.

Few Carolingian manuscripts are better known than the Lorsch gospels, the Codex Aureus of Lorsch, now divided between the Vatican Library and Biblioteca Batthyaneum, Alba Iulia, Romania ; the carved ivory consular diptychs of Anastasius ( consul 517 ) that were reused for its bindings are urbane classicising works of art in themselves, and embodiments of the classical tradition of Byzantium as it was transmitted to Lorsch in the time of Charlemagne.

Few Vietnamese Buddhists would identify themselves as a particular kind of Buddhism, as a Christian might identify him or herself by a denomination, for example.

Few Seattle clubs were willing to book hardcore acts during the band's short lifespan, so the Fartz often found themselves scrambling for any exposure or opportunities to perform.

Few abandoned, original buildings remain, although one dormitory facility and a former medical building on the east end of the base are owned by the state as part of the Higher Education and Technology campus and have not yet been renovated and are off-limits.

Few, if any, medical experts regard the condition as genuine, and few or no articles on pyroluria are found in modern medical literature ; the approach is described as " snake oil " by pediatrician and author Julian Haber.

Few others, apart from Harry Webb, the stretcher-bearer and O ' Hara, who had some training in first aid, had either military or medical experience.

Few parish clergy were initially licensed to preach by the bishops ; in the absence of a licensed preacher, Sunday services were required to be accompanied by reading one of the homilies written by Cranmer.

" Few puritans more loudly decried the bosom serpent of egotism than did Cotton Mather ; none more clearly exemplified it.

Few philosophers are as associated with induction as David Hume ; but Hume himself rarely used the term and when he did, he used it to support a point he was arguing.

Few would dispute the verdict of James D. Forbes, an editor of the eighth edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica: " His scientific glory is different in kind from that of Young and Fresnel ; but the discoverer of the law of polarization of biaxial crystals, of optical mineralogy, and of double refraction by compression, will always occupy a foremost rank in the intellectual history of the age.

Few academics argue that the text, in its present form, dates back any earlier than the 14th – 16th centuries ; although a minority see it as containing portions of an earlier work, and almost all would detect the influence of earlier sources — over and above the Vulgate text of the Latin Bible.

Few dared venture inland from the coast ; those that did, like the Portuguese, often met defeats and had to retreat to the coast.

Few personal computers used the 80186, with some notable exceptions: the Australian Dulmont Magnum laptop, one of the first laptops ; the Wang Office Assistant, marketed as a PC-like stand-alone word processor ; the Mindset ; the Siemens PC-D ( not 100 % IBM PC-compatible but using MS-DOS 2. 11: de: Siemens PC-D ); the Compis ( a Swedish school computer ); the RM Nimbus ( a British school computer ); the Unisys ICON ( a Canadian school computer ); ORB Computer by ABS ; the HP 100LX, HP 200LX, HP 1000CX and HP OmniGo 700LX ; the Tandy 2000 desktop ( a somewhat PC-compatible workstation with sharp graphics for its day ); the Philips: YES ; the Nokia MikroMikko 2.

Few players play only one way, or play one way all the time ; most exhibit a diverse style.

Few people have the ability to be a Mentat ; thus, those with the discipline are prized in whatever role they choose.

Few Roman remains are visible today ; a fragment of the old city wall can be seen near the casino and the foundations of the amphitheatre are traced in the paving of the present-day Rembrandtstraat.

Few other characters notice these or experience similar anomalies ; the sole exception is Gumm's supposed brother-in-law, Victor " Vic " Nielson, in whom he confides.

* Few data types in hardware, some CISCs have byte string instructions, or support complex numbers ; this is so far unlikely to be found on a RISC.

Few font developers outside Apple attempt to make AAT fonts ; instead, OpenType has become the dominant sfnt format despite its lack of support for axes or multiple masters.

::" Few human creatures would consent to be changed into any of the lower animals, for a promise of the fullest allowance of a beast's pleasures ; no intelligent human being would consent to be a fool, no instructed person would be an ignoramus, no person of feeling and conscience would be selfish and base, even though they should be persuaded that the fool, the dunce, or the rascal is better satisfied with his lot than they are with theirs … A being of higher faculties requires more to make him happy, is capable probably of more acute suffering, and is certainly accessible to it at more points, than one of an inferior type ; but in spite of these liabilities, he can never really wish to sink into what he feels to be a lower grade of existence … It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied ; better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied.

Few could stand by and watch a child drown ; many can ignore the avoidable deaths of children in Africa or India.

Few scholars still accept these texts as reliable sources ; historians today rely more on archaeology and numismatics, disciplines that have made valuable contributions toward understanding the period.