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

In all the other regions a minority of States had such measures.

I bought a few books from the bookstore.

How few genes can I use?

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.

It is therefore anticipated that the offer of a retention bonus could apply to as few as only half of the existing staff of the Tribunals.

There are a few colleagues on the list of speakers.

And Xinhua wasted no time in claiming that the abuses were limited to a few towns.

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

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.

While most of these deployments involved only small numbers of specialists, several led to the deployment of hundreds of personnel.

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.

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.

When José Luis Exeni was appointed by President Evo Morales, very few bloggers questioned his abilities or experience to head up this institution.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

There are few countries that can play such a critical role.

Jordan is one of a small number of Arab countries to have named ambassadors to Iraq.

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.

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

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

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

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 time is short, and few of new DPJ lawmakers possess the legislative experience and budgetary expertise to make that happen.

Most of these families converted to Islam in the time period from 1509 until the 1960s and few migrated to Israel after 1948.

Overall, the developed world has too few good fires, and the developing world has too many bad ones.