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Example sentences of "few and [adv] [adv] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	The chemical effects of burial on the pottery are few and generally well known .
2	But such efforts touched few and generally better paid workers .
3	The decided cases are few and mostly not of recent date .
4	It was expected that case law would give rise to sufficient precedents to flesh out the relatively few guidelines available under UCTA , but in fact cases have been few and not very helpful .
5	However , together , these pavements are too few and too poorly recorded to be considered the diagnostic mosaics of this group .
6	Fresh , unprepared potato suppliers are also few and far between .
7	‘ With an auction , you 've got to be certain that at least two buyers are there who can commit themselves , and the difficulty is that buyers who can proceed are few and far between , ’ said David Phillip , a director of Yorkshire estate agents Dacre Son and Hartley .
8	Precedents are few and far between .
9	The instances of this happening are few and far between .
10	Meanwhile , those garrulous starlets who utter a quotable phrase almost every time they open their mouths are few and far between .
11	Gujerati families which live as joint families in Britain and do not have , or have never had , this strict but uneasy hierarchy must be few and far between .
12	Those who earned their living from the game in tournament play were few and far between .
13	Early houses which remain completely untouched are few and far between , but a general rule emerged during my research for the book : the less important the house and the more remote its situation , the more old-fashioned it remained , like Hareston in Devon , which had no fashion-conscious owners wanting to show-off their taste and wealth to passers-by .
14	Such cases are few and far between and few have been proven .
15	The times were few and far between when she could look at him and not be reminded of his many faults and shortcomings .
16	Hotels that do offer good professional facilities with personal service and attention to detail are sadly still few and far between .
17	Features were few and far between , although Reuters came under pressure from the outset .
18	So much was at stake that jokes were few and far between .
19	Such experiences are too few and far between , and in too early a stage of development to demonstrate their effectiveness .
20	Deepwater creatures are few and far between and so have difficulty finding mates .
21	Although this potential does exist , actual examples of abuse of parent power through PTAs in the quarter of a century or so since the publication of the report are few and far between .
22	Letters from the States had been few and far between of late , although money from Sean still came from time to time .
23	He hits his irons particularly sweetly , a talent that serves him well at Hayling , Hampshire 's only links , where still days are few and far between .
24	Tramway accidents are fortunately few and far between , and a tram is a very safe vehicle indeed .
25	There is , in most cases , very little to be gained from Saxon local documents for , as has already been pointed out , bynames were few and far between in pre-Conquest England .
26	Natural behaviours in the first sense are few and far between ( see Instincts on page 93 ) since the majority of human behaviour has been acquired through an ad hoc learning process .
27	In the tertiary colleges on the other hand they are few and far between , and where they exist they are integrated into the user education programmes as teaching handouts .
28	These cargoes were few and far between , however .
29	Therefore ‘ spin-offs ’ into the economy as a whole from advances in military R&D , in telecommunications or electronics from are few and far between .
30	If nothing else it will give the landladies of Aldeburgh a chance to turn in an honest penny at a time when holidaymakers are few and far between in Suffolk .