Few of the native Jews who had lived in Lublin were still in the ghetto.

Few Burkinabé have had formal education.

Few had succeeded as Bowie did now.

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

In July 1841, Poe had published an essay called " A Few Words on Secret Writing " in Graham's Magazine.

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

Few then were surprised when Major's Conservatives lost the 1 May 1997 general election to Tony Blair's " New Labour ", although the immense scale of the defeat was not as widely predicted: in 1987 and 1992 the Conservatives had polled better than had been suggested by the opinion polls, but in 1997 this was no longer the case.

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

Few could believe that a renowned former companion of Nero had chosen such an honourable end.

Few people in the countryside had access to potable water, electricity, bank credit, or public transportation.

Few of these houses were used for single-family occupancy, however, and many had been converted into low-cost apartments.

Few orders did in fact come out of the trip, and when Steer's box of samples returned, the London office found that they had not been opened further down than the second layer.

Few women ever sought this status ; instead, the average Romanian family during the time had two to three children ( see Demographics of Romania ).

Few were as vocal as Peng Dehuai had been, but the general consensus was that the chairman's grand experiment had failed completely.

Few records remain of the original design, the most valuable being that of the flag used in the Declaration of Independence, which had a width of two meters and a length just over two feet.

Few first novels have had a comparable impact.

Few whites had ever seen him.

Few transmissions by secret agents of German Intelligence evaded RSS ' notice and changes in procedure, which the Germans used for security, were in many cases identified before the enemy had become familiar with them.

Few Māori had good understanding of either sovereignty or " governorship ", as understood by 19th century Europeans, and so some academics, such as Moana Jackson, question whether Māori fully understood that they were ceding sovereignty to the British Crown.

A Few Good Men had its world premiere at the Heritage Repertory Theatre at the University of Virginia's Department of Drama on September 19, 1989.

In January 1993 A Few Good Men had its premiere in German language at the Volkstheater, Vienna, Austria ( translation: Gunther Baumann, director: Erhard Pauer, Daniel Kaffee: Alfons Haider ).

Few mine workers had cars and cross valley roads were in marginal condition.

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

Few people took notice of Nagaoka's work at the time,

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.

Hu Shih's work fell into disrepute in mainland China until a 1986 article, written by Ji Xianlin, " A Few Words for Hu Shi ", advocated acknowledging not only Hu Shih's mistakes, but also his contributions to modern Chinese literature.

Few in the area could afford to own slaves like the wealthier planters in the Lowcountry, and almost every farmer was forced to work the land himself.

Few of his pieces are still performed today, and even by the time of his death his operatic style was looking rather old-fashioned when compared to the work of relatively younger reformist composers such as Claudio Monteverdi.

He then went to London, probably to supervise the publication of his work, A Few and New Observations upon the Book of Genesis: the most of them certain ; the rest, probable ; all, harmless, strange and rarely heard of before.

Few details remain regarding his life, aside from his published work, due to the destruction of El-Zahra during later Castillian-Andalusian conflicts.

Few inscriptions by or about this kingdom survive and very little archaeological work has taken place.

Few can afford the huge cost of such enterprises, and those who can, find the work slow-going and very far from the ultimate goals.

Few people read his work and in a republished edition in 1821, Pestalozzi writes:

Few pieces of legislation bear his name, yet he was especially proud of his work in creating the National Endowment for the Arts, of his sponsorship of the ERISA Act, which regulated defined-benefit private pensions, and of his leadership in the passage of the 1973 War Powers Act.

Few of the residents commute for work to Metropolitan Detroit or Flint or the Tri-Cities.

Few genera of plants have seen such a dramatic increase in new species, primarily thanks to the work of Mikinori Ogisu of Japan and Darrell Probst of Massachusetts.

Although the content of the film was deemed controversial, Johar's work as director and writer was applauded, Rajeev Masand noted: " Few writers have such solid control over their screenplay as Karan Johar does.

Few of the mathematicians survived World War II, but after the war a group including some of the original community carried on their work in western Poland's Wrocław, the successor city to prewar Lwów ; see Polish population transfers ( 1944 – 1946 ).

Few employment opportunities exist in the suburb with much of the labour force commuting to Sydney for work.

Few people own cars and the buses, or camellos, are slow and overcrowded ; many Cubans spend hours each day arranging rides to get to work, school or accomplish a task.

Few, however were able to raise the investment to allow work to begin.

Few buildings were constructed before the turn of the century, but construction work soon boomed to culminate in 1905 – 06, speculation causing many buildings to change owners several times before their completion.

Few are now " closed " — there are only ten closed nuclear towns where Russia's nuclear military work is still carried out.

Few designers besides Darrin believed this splendid car was the product of ten days ' work.

Few encouraged researchers from different countries or disciplines to work together for the greater good.

Few architects design as well as build, teach, research and write – Yeang ’ s does all these prolifically and these in aggregate lends further credibility to his work.