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Few proper names have only one possible referent: there are many places named New Haven ; Jupiter may refer to a planet, a god, a ship, or a symphony ; at least one person has been named Mata Hari, but so have a horse, a song, and three films ; there are towns and people named Toyota, as well as the company.
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Few examples of the Khazar language exist today, mostly in names that have survived in historical sources.
Few words of Etruscan entered the Latin language, but the names of at least two of the tribes — Ramnes and Luceres — seem to be Etruscan.
Few persons can have been known under a greater variety of Christian names than Buckingham was during his comparatively short life, the following being the names used by him on various occasions: Leicester, Leicester Ambrose, Leicester Silk, Leicester Forbes Ambrose, Leicester Stanhope, Leicester Stanhope Forbes, Leicester Stanhope Forbes Young, and Leicester Stanhope Forbes Young Ambrose.
The Southern Victory Series or Timeline-191 are both fan names given to a series of Harry Turtledove alternate history novels, including How Few Remain as well as the Great War, American Empire, and Settling Accounts series.
: Kansas City Confidential, an imaginative little noir from 1952, exemplifies the bread-and-butter UA film of the ’ 50s .... Mr. Karlson, interestingly, concentrates on the story within the story: The leader of the gang is an embittered former police captain ... who dons a mask when he interviews prospective collaborators whose names he has drawn from police files .... The recruits are three young actors who would come to define menace in the ’ 50s and beyond: Neville Brand, Jack Elam and Lee Van Cleef, who here has his best role before For a Few Dollars More.
Few of the experts would have allowed any direct reference to the book to be published under their names, and their gentlemanly disagreements to be made public.
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Few business groups in recent years have come under heavier pressure to face these realities than real estate brokers and home builders.
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 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 others in the American study of religion have had this kind of impact on students of so many approaches and interests.
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.
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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 men have come so close to the throne as York, who died not knowing that in only a few months his son Edward would become king.
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.
In How Few Remain, an alternative history novel by Harry Turtledove, the town is mentioned as the only Confederate town taken by the US during the Second Mexican War.
Few expeditions have explored the Western and Eastern Oceans to either side of the main continents, and the Ring Sea is known only from satellite observations.
Few believed the story, as they thought it unlikely that Morton would have killed his only friend in the group.
Few offered courses in the sciences, modern languages, history, or political economy-and only a handful had graduate or professional schools.
Few of the power pop albums which followed Get the Knack charted at all, and those that did attained only middling positions on the Billboard 200.
Few prehistoric artefacts have ever been found on Silbury Hill: at its core there is only clay, flints, turf, moss, topsoil, gravel, freshwater shells, mistletoe, oak, hazel, sarsen stones, ox bones, and antler tines.
Few POU measures have reached significant scale thus far, but efforts to promote and commercially distribute these products to the world's poor have only been under way for a few years.
Few POU measures have reached significant scale thus far, but efforts to promote and commercially distribute these products to the world's poor have only been under way for a few years.
Few Australians visit the arid interior of the continent, while many live in and around the major cities of the south and east coast, from where it is usually only a short drive to the remaining pockets of near-city bushland where kangaroos can be found without much difficulty.
Few programs use only one of these techniques exclusively ; most combine portions of each into one synthetic system.
Few scientists had the opportunity to observe a live pig-footed bandicoot, with the only existing account of its behaviour suggesting that it moved " like a broken-down hack in a canter, apparently dragging the hind quarters after it ".
* 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 people actually begin a trek from Jiri, as only 5 % of all trekkers who attempt the difficult trek to Everest Base Camp start at Jiri.
Few of the rest house chapels or hospital chapels survive ( only the chapels remain as they were the only buildings built of sandstone or laterite, and all wooden constructions rotted away long ago ).
Few German night fighters interfere because they are misdirected to a diversionary raid on Munich, and only four Lancasters ( 1. 2 percent ) are lost.
Few cable systems utilized this feature, however, oweing to the need to produce special versions of their local advertisements wherein, as with the satellite feed itself, all action occurred only within the top half of the video frame.
" Few artists have been subject to such posthumous extremes of critical fortune, for in the 1930s his vast paintings fetched only a pound or two, while today they are valued at many thousands.
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