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.

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 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 conclusions can therefore be derived about the status of the settlement during this period, although the midden deposits show no clear break since Roman times.

Few of Kupkovič's pieces have been recorded, although a short piece for violin and piano from 1968, Souvenir, has been recorded several times, most recently by Gidon Kremer.

Few of the portraits attributed to Giorgione appear as straightforward records of the appearance of a commissioning individual, although it is entirely possible that many are.

Few recordings from this period exist, although they released a novelty record about kidnapped heiress Patty Hearst, " You've Got Your Baby Back ".

Few speakers of endangered languages consider it a good thing that their indigenous language might be lost, although many consider that switching to a majority language is likely to alleviate social stigma and increase economic opportunities.

Few combinations have the same unique terminology applied to the common roan colors, although palomino roans are sometimes called honey roans.

This is particularly evident in the Trancefers first track " A Few Minutes After Trancefer ", although the second track " Silent Running " is more reminiscent of Schulze's earlier works.

Few ever returned to Europe, although committed advocates of Zionism have emigrated to Israel.

Karina's first film appearance, although uncredited, dates from 1959, when a soap advertisement in which she appeared as a model was included near the end of Guy Debord's On the Passage of a Few Persons Through a Rather Brief Unity of Time.

Bingley wrote that the United Kingdom " Few birds are so much in esteem for the table as these ", although he also reported that Woodcock meat was not eaten in Sweden or Norway as it was thought unwholesome, but that the eggs were taken and sold in " great numbers " in Stockholm and Gothenburg.

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.

Few African Americans voted for George W. Bush and other Republicans in the 2004 elections, although it was a higher percentage than any GOP candidate since President Ronald Reagan.

Few successful therapies have so far been developed for affected people, although individuals often learn to use ' piecemeal ' or ' feature by feature ' recognition strategies.

Few of these characters are still used by the company, although Icestar is mentioned as a casualty from " The Battle of Detroit " in Champions Universe.

Few recordings of early Big Night Out live shows exist, although a video was made available to members of the original fan club in the mid-1990s, containing material and characters very similar to those that made it to the TV show.

Few German night fighters intercept them, although 33 bombers ( 4 percent of the force ) are lost.

Few American TV comedians consistently used drag as a comedy device, among them Milton Berle, Flip Wilson and Martin Lawrence, although drag characters have occasionally been popular on sketch TV shows like In Living Color ( with Jim Carrey's grotesque female bodybuilder ) and Saturday Night Live ( with the Gap Girls, among others ).

Few writers would advocate a hylopathic materialism, although the idea is not new ; it has been formulated as " whatever underlies consciousness in a material sense, i. e., whatever it is about the brain that gives rise to consciousness, must necessarily be present to some degree in any other material thing ".

Few empirical evaluations of Theophostic Ministry are available, although Christian psychologist Fernando Garzon says that current case study and survey data has yielded clinically significant changes in client symptom levels, and high degrees of client and practitioner satisfaction.

Few results are proved with any degree of rigor, although the ideas behind proofs are often sketched, and references are given.

Few of those have become consistent stars, although Stephen Hendry and John Higgins took their first ranking titles in the event.

Few survivors returned to Athens.

Few of the survivors of the battle reached the Elbe.

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 scientific investigations into the effectiveness of Dianetics have been published.

Sabata and If You Meet Sartana Pray for Your Death, directed by Gianfranco Parolini introduces into similar betrayal environments a kind of hero molded on the Mortimer character from For a Few Dollars More, only without any vengeance motive and with more outrageous trick weapons.

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

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 rivers discharge into the sea and their total contribution to the water exchange is within 1 %.

Few further attempts to bring counterfactual history into the world of academia were made until the 1991 publication of Plausible Worlds: Possibility and Understanding in History and the Social Sciences by the Cambridge sociologist Geoffrey Hawthorn, who carefully explored three different counterfactual scenarios.

Few of these tapestries survived the French Revolution as hundreds were burnt to recover the gold thread that was often woven into them.

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 of the " green rooms " cut into the woodlands in imitation of the cabinets de verdure of Versailles that are shown in the engraving actually got executed at Het Loo.

Few of these are directly meaningful to humans, being already transformed into computer manipulable forms.

Few will now grudge Tiberius, when his whole action as a ruler is taken into account, such a title as salutaris princeps, which seemed to a former generation a specimen of shameless adulation.

Few Iron Age coins were found here however, and it is believed that after being poured into the pellet moulds, the coins were taken to Leicester to be stamped.

Few programs use only one of these techniques exclusively ; most combine portions of each into one synthetic system.

Few indeed were the early homes into which the cards, the spinning-wheel, the flag-wheel, the quill-wheel, the swifts, the warping-bars, and loom did not find an early entrance.

Few if any of the nostrums were actually patented ; chemical patents did not come into use in the United States until 1925.

Few of these have been assimilated into standard English ; but one that has is " holocaust " for burnt offering.

Few modern Arabic works have been translated into other languages.

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 people ever go into the deep woods, and it has become a wildlife area.

Few decided upon joining the 1st Polish Army ( supported by communist puppet regime ), while majority were forcibly enlisted into the Soviet Red Army.

Born into a poor yeoman farming family, Will Russell Few achieved both social prominence and political power later in life.