Pronunciation of the English word few.
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1. | A perfect knowledge of a few writers and a few subjects is more valuable than a superficial one of a great many. | |
2. | To survive, the polar bear must keep its body at the right temperature and store enough energy to last between meals that could be a few days or a few months apart. | |
3. | Just as there are few fat "old maids," there are few fat bachelors. | |
4. | There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake, though all the World sees them to be in downright nonsense. | |
5. | Tom checked out a few books from the school library a few days ago. | |
6. | The King had hardly made a few steps to the door when he was startled by Morshu's mean laughter. The trickster merchant jumped out from behind the couch. "I got you on camera! I got you on camera!" he grinned triumphantly. "Me too," Ganon appeared next. "Hey, that's not nice!" the King cried frustratedly. "Give me that!" Morshu easily dashed a few attempts to snatch the camera. "Oh no, King, we're already putting this on YouTube!" Ganon gloated. "For the lulz!" "The lulz!" Morshu joined. "No, please, no!" the King beat his fists against the floor in despair. "Stop it, stop the uploading! Please, PLEASE!" "Hehehe," Ganon had the smuggest smirk on his face, "this is better entertainment than stealing offering money!" | |
7. | Latino Americans know very few things about the indigenous people's history who lived here a few centuries ago. | |
8. | Doubtless there exists in this world precisely the right woman for any given man to marry and vice versa; but when you consider that a human being has the opportunity of being acquainted with only a few hundred people, and out of the few hundred that there are but a dozen or less whom he knows intimately, and out of the dozen, one or two friends at most, it will easily be seen, when we remember the number of millions who inhabit this world, that probably, since the earth was created, the right man has never yet met the right woman. | |
9. | Inwardly the Second Men differed from the earlier species in that they had shed most of those primitive relics which had hampered the First Men more than was realized. Not only were they free of appendix, tonsils and other useless excrescences, but also their whole structure was more firmly knit into unity. Their chemical organization was such that their tissues were kept in better repair. Their teeth, though proportionately small and few, were almost completely immune from caries. Such was their glandular equipment that puberty did not begin till twenty; and not till they were fifty did they reach maturity. At about one hundred and ninety their powers began to fail, and after a few years of contemplative retirement they almost invariably died before true senility could begin. | |
10. | Tatoeba is not a language school, nor a forum for academic discussions, nor, much less, a vehicle for propaganda of any kind. It's far above all that. Its true significance will only be perceived, I believe, in a few years or a few decades, when its beneficial influence will have radiated to the most distant corners of the planet. |