11 sentences with 'few'
Example sentences and phrases with the word few and other words derived from it.
• « A few days earlier, my internist had telephoned me after my medical examination to notify me that my prostate-specific antigen (PSA) blood concentration had risen from 15 to 22 nanograms per milliliter in one year. »
• « I sat there for a few moments, staring at the sheet of paper in front of me, on which I had scribbled the names of doctors whose expertise I never imagined I would ever need, and on whom, it seemed, my life now depended. »
• « Extralimitation. There are more than a few exceptional intelligences who miss something very simple: that brilliance in one area does not guarantee success in another. »
• « Over the next few years I visited him wherever he was living, and many times in airports in the course of his trips to the Far East and the South Pacific. »
• « Although he died a few days later, he never stopped opening up about life, and once again offered his help. »
• « The doctor had thought that with a few blows he could drive the wedge into the sternum and open it cleanly in half. »
• « If it had been possible to stop the heartbeat for a few minutes, the surgeon's task would have been much easier. But that would have required a heart-lung bypass machine. »
• « "A few years ago, only in Hong Kong and Singapore was there middle class. That's no longer the case." »
• « Fred Epstein was one of the few doctors in the country who would be willing to perform the risky brain surgery the boy needed. »