Few could disagree with McGonagall's closing judgement: ' I must now conclude my lay / By telling the world fearlessly without the least dismay / That your central girders would not have given way ,/ At least many sensible men do say ,/ Had they been supported on each side with buttresses ,/ At least many sensible men confesses ,/ For the stronger we our houses do build ,/ The less chance we have of being killed '.

A common solution to gender oppression or social ills in feminist utopian fiction is to remove men, either showing isolated all-female societies as in Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Herland, or societies where men have died out or been replaced, as in Joanna Russ's A Few Things I Know About Whileaway, where " the poisonous binary gender " has died off.

Few men since his day have had a greater influence, though for the greater part of the eighteenth century and the early part of the nineteenth there was little recognition of his relationship to the current advance in educational thought and practice.

Few men have been more solicitous for the happiness and comfort of others, even in little things.

Few purely literary men can have entered the Academy with so few credentials.

Few, if any, of these men ever lived here, but their farms prospered.

: Few men have ever seene the like of it.

Few single men attempted to operate a farm ; farmers clearly understood the need for a hard-working wife, and numerous children, to handle the many chores, including child-rearing, feeding and clothing the family, managing the housework, and feeding the hired hands.

Few women competed in sports until the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, as social changes in Europe and North America favored increased female participation in society as equals with men.

Few conscripts saw combat in Europe: only 2463 men reached units on the front lines.

Few men and fewer women had the education or training to write about these subjects.

Few men have played a more important part in so many activities that concerned their own community.

Few men were left who could build a long rifle.

Frazer recalled that each person remembered Cope differently, and that " Few men succeeded so well in concealing from anyone ... all the sides of his multiform character.

Few men have played the part of the voice of Big Tex since its inception ; One of the best was Sonny Ray Stolz, winner of the original statewide competition for the voice of Big Tex, held live in 2001 at the Cotton Bowl stadium.

Few reinforcements were authorized ; cavalry officer William B. Travis arrived in Béxar with 30 men on February 3.

Few participated in this training as one of the first men to enlist in the volunteer militia or " minute men " company formed in Hillsborough.

Few authors put forward that their name referred to " men of the field, steppe " ( from the Ukrainian word: pole-open ground, field ), not to be confused with polyane ( cf.

Few Spaniards initially gave a thought to the wholesale slaughter, enslavement, and forced conversion of Native Americans either, although some men such as Bartolomé de las Casas argued for more humane treatment of them.

Few books have ever conveyed in such gripping detail the brutal destruction of the Battle of the Atlantic and the endurance of the men who fought it.

Few men making their komusubi debut return a kachi-koshi or winning score.

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 breatharians have submitted themselves to medical testing ; of those that have, including a hospital's observation of an Indian mystic surviving without food or water for 15 days, none have undergone peer review with results independently reproduced.

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.