al Tira was mostly destroyed with the exception of a few houses survived destruction.

I became even more outraged by the fact that, except from a few media, no one talked about it.

Health problems will be negligible for all but a few nations.

Most rare elements on Earth are not needed by life (exceptions being selenium and iodine), while a few common ones (aluminum and titanium) are not used.

I fear that, with only a few exceptions, most countries have been surprised and caught off guard once again by the rapid course that events have taken in Burma.

At 17 00 general Arab resistance had ceased in the eastern area with the exception of a few isolated spots and the Jews were in possession of the Suq as far as the eastern gate.

CAMBRIDGE Thirty years ago, China had a tiny footprint on the global economy and little influence outside its borders, save for a few countries with which it had close political and military relationships.

How few genes can I use?

I bought a few books from the bookstore.

to the north are a few homes and apartments.

The compound had very few windows.

Only a small number of working people are still in education.

There are a few colleagues on the list of speakers.

I would like to focus on just a few of those issues.

It was hunted until there were just a few left to die in zoos.

Photo by Jack Kurtz, Copyright Demotix (9 29 2009)

At least a few people are not happy with Samuel's choice.

A few rivers are part of the Baltic Sea basin.

Few qualified Kosovo Serb candidates are presented.

Equivalently, a perfect number is a number that is half the sum of all of its positive divisors (including itself) i.e.

There is also a small number of accredited private secondary and higher education institutions.

Prior to emancipation there were few schools for educating locals.

A few high profile technology companies contribute to a prosperous economy.

In 2009, however, few Americans were familiar with leaders of Congress.

Only a few such treaties, however, provide national treatment for direct investment.

Most domestic resource flows originate in a few large countries.

Few countries reported on successful establishment of accountability mechanisms.

Human technologies have tended to be large, flat, with right angles, stiff, made of metal. They have rolling devices and axles. There are very few motors, very few sensors.

So, they tried it on a few pigs, and none of the pigs were killed.

The battle ended organized Austrian resistance outside of a small number of fortresses in the kingdom.

A few private Kurdish teaching centers have recently been allowed to open.

There are few modern retail stores, and these are concentrated in urban areas.

There are few women also among leaders of regional departments and associations of political parties.

Today, most developing economies, with the exception of a few Eastern European countries, still choose to anchor their domestic macroeconomic arrangements by stabilizing their exchange rates against the dollar, at least intermittently.

That's quite a bit more than just a few mammals that we're eating, like a cow or a pig or a sheep.

But cultural concerns allowed him to recruit quite a few unlikely allies.

But we didn't want to limit ourselves to English books or to novels, or to a small group of people.

She works with a handful of other female coffee farmers who live and work here with their children.

Therefore there are only a few texts in the Old Swedish from that period.

Wingless queens (ergatoids) and males occur in a few species, however.

From the rest of Europe and America there were only a few immigrants.

A few, however, are parasites, feeding on the blood of larger animals.

However, few shelters were built due to shortages of concrete and steel.

Peaceful demonstrations were also held in the capital and in a few other provinces.

Compared to men there are still very few female executive managers engaged in enterprise.