His exploits soon gained notice in the American Alpine Journal, where one diarist wrote that "his extraordinary free-climbing talent, coupled with an awesome physique, polished by the mental discipline of years of experience, place him at a level few attain".
The data reveal that the pipeline is leaky, hemorrhaging women from the time they enter as college undergraduates until the time a select few attain full professorship.
Few attain such proportions, however, and even the largest are eventually broken down by boring organisms such as algae, worms, sponges, and barnacles, as well as by physical processes.
"He had a special rapport and respect from judges that the rest of us sought and few attained".
Few attained his scale of success, but many, like Mustafa Zahid, managed to get a foot in the door.
Kunichika had many students but few attained recognition as print artists.
In the present study population, participants had been on insulin for at least 2 years, and their mean HbA1c level was 8.5% at enrolment and 7.9% at randomization, so that relatively few attained the <7.0% goal.
Mount Fuji in Japan is the archetype of this image, but in reality only a few volcanoes attain this ideal shape.
But even under the most optimistic calculations, making a profit on the sale of the book will require that well over a million copies be sold in the United States, a level only a few books attain each year.
For the publisher to make a profit, the book will most likely need to sell more than 1.5 million hardcover copies, a level only a few books attain each year.
Mr. Kirshbaum estimates that breaking even after paying that huge advance, which Mr. Welch is giving to charity, will require selling at least 700,000 hard-cover copies -- something only a few books attain each year.
