Sentence examples for a substantial few from inspiring English sources

A substantial few of these persons have earned tenure and promotions, several to the rank of Professor, while several have even been appointed to endowed professorships.

Which brings us to Theresa May's substantial (few speeches here deserve that adjective) immigration speech on Tuesday, unless we prefer to call it her leadership bid or her "no to Europe" speech.

Meanwhile, although Tyson still owes a substantial amount —"a few million" is how Kiki puts it — in back taxes, he is adhering to a payment plan.

But it said the property market was clearly in the grip of "a substantial downturn, with few indications that we have reached the bottom yet".

The combined EU-IMF package is a substantial one but few imagine that it will be a one-off: on Sunday Reuters news agency quoted a Greek official as saying the country is likely to need a total €80 billion of loans over three years.

It's a substantial niche with few if any competitors.

It's a big drama with a substantial cast, and a few longeurs that the later Bleasdale may not have tolerated.

Either figure would seem to reflect a substantial increase from a few years ago, though it is hard to be certain.

As far as the delegates go, for anyone who has a proper job (and life) it's a substantial chunk of the few days a year most employees have to call their own.

Now Grace can hardly even see the lake, because a substantial house one of the few regular suburban houses here, with a two-car garage has been built across that very route.

This is also true for the developing of injection side effects, such as a worsening of headache conditions, which in almost half the cases showed to revert to a substantial improvement after a few days.