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Few new writers have their first story accepted, so they tell me.
Few writers could have made the Justification controversy interesting or even intelligible.
Few contemporary writers share these qualms ; it is now accepted usage to refer to transfinite cardinals and ordinals as " infinite ".
Few writers were so frequently reprinted during the 18th century, but even in his own century La Harpe had arrived at a truer estimate of his real value when he said of his poetry: " Le fond n ' est qu ' un lieu commun chargé de déclamations et même d ' idées fausses.
Few writers in cultural studies and the social sciences have used and developed the distinctions that Barthes makes.
Few batsmen, or writers, announce themselves as Dexter did when batting for Sussex against Surrey at The Oval last summer.
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 ".
Mat Coward wrote in his review in The Independent that the novel is " fluent and fascinating " and mentioned " Few writers have so much to say, the skills to make reading what they say an irresistible pleasure-and the clout to be able to be able to say it to an audience of millions ".
Few writers of his time had a deeper knowledge of the English language, or cared for it more devotedly.
Although the content of the film was deemed controversial, Johar's work as director and writer was applauded, Rajeev Masand noted: " Few writers have such solid control over their screenplay as Karan Johar does.
Rajeev Masand gave the film 4 out of 5 stars praising the screenplay and Johar direction, he said " Few writers have such solid control over their screenplay as Karan Johar does.
Few works contain a more ample store of illustration, alike from the writers of Greece and Rome, and from modern authorities on ancient topography and mythology ; while at the same time the author's lively sympathy with the life around him keeps his narrative fresh and interesting.
Few writers have struggled so long and so hard to disengage the essence of religion from its transitionary embodiment in an historical creed.
Few 19th century writers possessed the virile temperament of Pereda, and, with the single exception of Leo Tolstoy, none kept a moral end more steadily in view.
Avram Davidson received the collection favorably, praising Clarke's stories saying " Few writers in the field handle science with such knowledge as to be so convincing, such deftness as never to place stumbling-blocks, and with such clarity of style as to appear to have none at all.
Few of these words created in opposition to inkhorn terms remained in common usage and the writers who disdained the use of Latinate words often could not avoid using other words of foreign origin.

Few and have
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.

Few and better
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 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.
The first, " A Few Pieces of the Puzzle ," aired in January 1994 and received excellent critical acclaim and the second, " Homeless Go Home ," aired in May 1994 to even better critical response and ratings.
Few companies have actually attained Climate Neutral Certification, applying to a rigorous review process and establishing that they have achieved absolute net zero or better impact on the world's climate.
Here young Few developed the skills expected of the eighteenth-century farmer. In an account of the early history of Orange County, Francis Nash wrote, " His father Few, Jr. s though, belonged to the better class of farmers, had more means and a better education than the average settler.
Upon Drinan's death, Georgetown University Law Center Dean, T. Alexander Aleinikoff, made the following statement: " Few have accomplished as much as Father Drinan and fewer still have done so much to make the world a better place.
Few contemporary cricketers better merited the title of all-rounder.
Few taxonomists have ever done better.
Few critics claimed that the terrorist threat was not real, merely that these powers were not the best way to address that threat, that arbitrary powers are more likely to lead to a miscarriage of justice and that prosecution in a court of law would be a better solution.
Few Carolingian manuscripts are better known than the Lorsch gospels, the Codex Aureus of Lorsch, now divided between the Vatican Library and Biblioteca Batthyaneum, Alba Iulia, Romania ; the carved ivory consular diptychs of Anastasius ( consul 517 ) that were reused for its bindings are urbane classicising works of art in themselves, and embodiments of the classical tradition of Byzantium as it was transmitted to Lorsch in the time of Charlemagne.
The Wisdom of Crowds: Why the Many Are Smarter Than the Few and How Collective Wisdom Shapes Business, Economies, Societies and Nations, published in 2004, is a book written by James Surowiecki about the aggregation of information in groups, resulting in decisions that, he argues, are often better than could have been made by any single member of the group.
Few of Raimondi's operas were successful, and as soon as he realized he was being eclipsed by Rossini, and later by Bellini and Donizetti, he changed his compositional direction from production of operas to sacred music ; in that domain he had a better opportunity to indulge his love of counterpoint.
Released on Mohawk # 105 in 1957, the songs were " Out In Colorado " and " The Chosen Few ", which were soon issued on the Jubilee label for better distribution.

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