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 rowers worldwide use rivers as narrow as the Cam or the Isis, but bumps races are also contested elsewhere ( see below ).

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 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 of the nonmammalian synapsids outlasted the Triassic, although survivors persisted into the Cretaceous.

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.

Few forces had the doctrine or capability to deployment their charges on effective sea operations despite manoeuvres involving aircraft being carried out in 1913.

Few records of Deane's early life survive, but he seems to have had some sea training, possibly on a ship-of-war.

Few species were originally considered to feed directly on seagrass leaves ( partly because of their low nutritional content ), but scientific reviews and improved working methods have shown that seagrass herbivory is a highly important link in the food chain, with hundreds of species feeding on seagrasses worldwide, including green turtles, dugongs, manatees, fish, geese, swans, sea urchins and crabs.

Few composers have written such vital sea music as appears in Dylan.

Few minutes later, the mine exploded and the place was filled by sea water.

Few writers have better understood their deepest selves.

Few will quarrel with the aim of the schools or with the wording of their curriculum.

Few states make effective use of their existing vocational education programs or funds for the purpose of attracting new industry.

Few new writers have their first story accepted, so they tell me.

Few people ever realize when they are acting according to their own beliefs and when they are meekly submitting to authority … To permit myself to be drafted with the understanding that I am submitting to authority's demand to do something very wrong would make me frightened of myself … I am fully prepared to go to jail if I am not granted Conscientious Objector status.

Few people spend their time looking for moths up in the trees.

Few lawyers would defend cases as undesirable as these, and some of those lawyers kicked back their fees to the arresting officer.

Few of the Achaeans returned safely to their homes and many founded colonies in distant shores.

" Cook and Moore revived some of the sketches on their later television and stage shows, most famously the two hander " One Leg Too Few ," in which Cook played a theatrical producer auditioning a one-legged Moore for the part of Tarzan.

* Few if any non-English speaking nations use the whole word teaching method. They do not have to ; phonics works for their language because it follows the alphabetic principle: the words are almost entirely spelled as they sound.

Few have converted enough to Christianity to drop their traditional religious practices.

Microsoft has received a great deal of bad press surrounding their Palladium software architecture, evoking comments such as " Few pieces of vaporware have evoked a higher level of fear and uncertainty than Microsoft's Palladium ", " Palladium is a plot to take over cyberspace ", and " Palladium will keep us from running any software not personally approved by Bill Gates ".

Few regret their choice.

Few facts are known about their origins, and little has been published about them.

Few traditional educators promote social networking unless they are communicating with their own colleagues.

Few are quite cruel towards their young and may hurt or kill them with little provocation.

Few details of their relationship or its end were made public at the time.

Few people who took up golf after their 50th birthday have left as many positive impressions on the game during the history of golf.

Few things educate new political appointees faster as to their own strategic sensings, or to the qualities and competencies of the " permanent " government they lead within executive bureaucracies, than to have to commit in writing to the President their plans for the future and how they can be integrated, coordinated and otherwise shared with other agencies and departments.

Few members of the 1st Fighter Group foresaw subsequent difficulties in the summer of 1946 as they trained with their new jet fighters.

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 country singers fill their albums primarily with their own material.