Example sentences of "have been few and " in BNC.
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| 1 | Third Class golfers must have been few and far between as my ticket example is only number 16 ! |
| 2 | Letters from the States had been few and far between of late , although money from Sean still came from time to time . |
| 3 | You may have made progress , you may have known times of happiness and fulfilment , but they have been few and far between . |
| 4 | Now I suppose for most of us because of the very fact were here this morning they have been few and far between such experiences , perhaps what is more common is that we may have spent time with someone who was dying , their last few hours , their last few minutes , and if they were not unconscious I wonder what sort of conversation would be going on between us and them , what sort of things would we , would we of been saying , what would we be asking us , well in this passage that we have been reading we have just such a conversation , two men who are on the verge of death , death can only be hours away for both of them , and here they have this conversation , it was in that sense it was one of the strangest interviews any body ever had with Jesus not only is the , the account here of er a death bed conversion , but the one who is saving is also in the process of dying . |
| 5 | In a strife-torn country where terrorist hijacking and hostage taking is a common occurrence , full-blown sieges have been few and far between . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | His movies since the early 1970s have been few and far between . |
| 8 | Now , I suppose for most of us , bu bu because of the very fact we 're here this morning they have been few and far between , such experiences . |