He starred in a number of Second World War films including 49th Parallel ( 1941 ), " Pimpernel " Smith ( 1941 ), and The First of the Few ( 1942, known in the U. S. as Spitfire ), the latter two of which he also directed and co-produced.

Few of the individual features of Karnak are unique, but the size and number of features are overwhelming.

Few paintings are attributed to him with certainty, but a number of important painters were trained at his workshop.

* Few major parties, large number of minor parties — When there are only one or two major parties, but a relatively large number of minor parties that, combined, achieve a significant share of the total proportional vote, but fail to elect any constituency seats, the large parties often end up with overhang seats.

Few simplifying assumptions are made, and when a number is needed, an answer with two or more significant figures (" the town has 3. 9 × 10 < sup > 3 </ sup > or thirty nine hundred residents ") is generally given.

Few of the characters were repeated throughout the entire series, but a number appeared in many episodes.

Few historic interurban lines are still operated in their original form, although a number of more recently constructed transit lines could be considered interurbans by Hilton and Due's standards above.

O ' Hare appeared in a number of theatrical productions on Broadway and in the New York area, including an acclaimed revival of Shaw's Man and Superman with Philip Bosco and the role of Col. Jessup in the original stage version of A Few Good Men ( the role played by Jack Nicholson in the film version ).

In 1996, Colvin released her " platinum status " album A Few Small Repairs and in 1997 the success of her single " Sunny Came Home " " firmly catapulted her into the mainstream " after spending four weeks at the number one spot on the Adult Contemporary chart.

Few other conservation societies have a comparable amount of volunteer activity and number and diversity of non-profit organizations in America.

Few artists seem to have worked with more uniformity of purpose, or more forthright command of his materials ; this singlemindedness was recognised by the number of prestigious commissions he was awarded.

Few children with TEF have problems after surgery ; however, a number develop feeding difficulties and chest problems.

A Few Questions accounted for his second-highest peak on the country albums charts, reaching number 3.

As one of The Few, Lock, shot down sixteen and a half Luftwaffe aircraft during the brief battle and ranked as the highest scoring British born pilot for number of kills.

Few classic rags follow this idealized form, which is only a generalization ; there are a number of standard variations:

Whoever has searched the annals of cinchona will recognize the truth of the following observations of Weddel ( d. 1877 ): " Few subjects in natural history have excited general interest in a higher degree than cinchona ; none perhaps have hitherto merited the attention of a greater number of distinguished men ".

Few of his works were commercially recorded in the three decades following the composer's death in 1958, notable exceptions being The Birds of Rhiannon and The Song of Gwyn ap Nudd, although the BBC did broadcast a number of studio performances.

Few documents survive into modern times, the ( Winchester confessions ) c. 1616 highlight the variant of English Romani and contains a high number of words still used in the modern Northern European Romani dialects and until recently Welsh Romani ; Examples include ; Balovas ( pig meat bacon ), Lovina ( beer, alcohol ), ruk ( tree ), Smentena ( cream ), Boba ( beans ) and Folaso ( glove ) and all such words occur in all western dialects of Romani, with little English loanwords present.

Few of these lenses exist ; Canon has never released production figures, but it is almost certain that fewer than 100 were made, and it has been rumored that the actual number is closer to 20.

Few of the individual features of Karnak are unique, but the size and number of features is overwhelming.

Few of those of the 15-19 year-old age-group spoke Breton, which is now considered to be an endangered language.

Few Cape Verdeans own cars, but ownership is rising rapidly with increasing prosperity, particularly on Santiago Island.

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 tensions exist between the Finnish-speaking majority and the Swedish-speaking minority, although in certain circles there is an unending debate about the status of the Swedish language.

* Frederick Douglass is a major character in the alternate history novel How Few Remain by Harry Turtledove.

Kevin Norwood Bacon ( born July 8, 1958 ) is an American film and theater actor whose notable roles include Animal House, Diner, Footloose, Flatliners, Wild Things, A Few Good Men, JFK, The River Wild, Murder in the First, Apollo 13, Hollow Man, Stir of Echoes, Trapped, Mystic River, The Woodsman, Friday the 13th, Death Sentence, Frost / Nixon, X-Men: First Class and Tremors.

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 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 hospitals and universities are capable of maintaining such systems, and most clinical PET is supported by third-party suppliers of radiotracers that can supply many sites simultaneously.

* 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.

Likewise, after 1965 when Leone's second Western For a Few Dollars More brought a still larger box office bonanza, bounty killer suddenly became the choice profession of Spaghetti Western heroes in films like Arizona Colt, Vengeance is Mine, 10. 000 Dollars Blood Money, The Ugly Ones, Cry for Revenge, Any Gun Can Play.

The theme of age in For a Few Dollars More where the younger bounty killer eventually bests his more experienced colleague is taken up in Day of Anger and Death Rides a Horse.

Giuliano Gemma starred in a series of successful films carrying this theme – Adiós gringo, For a Few Extra Dollars, I lunghi giorni della vendetta, Wanted, and to some extent Blood for a Silver Dollar – where most often his character is called " Gary ".

Few top players used the western grip after the 1920s, but in the latter part of the 20th century, as shot-making techniques and equipment changed radically, the western forehand made a strong comeback and is now used by many modern players.

::" 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 rivers flow into it from the poorly drained region south of the river and much of this area near the Colombian border is swampland.

Few places are suitable for large-scale wasabi cultivation, and cultivation is difficult even in ideal conditions.

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.

Longstreet is a character in Harry Turtledove's alternate history novel, How Few Remain, and in Robert Conroy's alternate history novel, 1901.

Few events in ancient history are as controversial as the destruction of the Library, as the historical record is both contradictory and incomplete.

Few of these cases, however, would qualify as a true operating system.

Few non-Amish or Mennonites in Mifflin County today speak Pennsylvania German, but this was not true in the past.

Before settling on the impossibility of true psychogeography, Debord made another film, On the Passage of a Few Persons Through a Rather Brief Unity of Time ( 1959 ), the title of which suggests its own subject matter.

Few extenders, however, implement " true DPMI ".

Few Maori deaths were recorded – the true impact of the epidemic on Maori is unknown.

Few true specimens of the mountain dulcimer exist from earlier than about 1880, when J. Edward Thomas of Knott County, Ky began building and selling them.

Few languages contrast all three heights of mid vowel, since it is rare for a language to distinguish more than four heights of true front or back vowels.

Few have ever seen her true appearance.