Sentence examples for alas few from inspiring English sources

He may even be keen for Mr Simon to bring up power, since the Republican thinks deregulation was not to blame a view that (alas) few Californians share.

There are extensive liner notes — though, alas, few hints of what the lyrics mean — to be studied or ignored.

Even an E-911 system would not have saved many lives last week -- there were, alas, few survivors to locate, and short-lived cellphone batteries would have precluded such efforts after a few days anyway.

Alas, few choose the old-fashioned way voluntarily.

Alas, few of us take that hope seriously.

Alas, few have multi-lingual Web sites, listings on international booking sites or English-speaking staff members to answer the phones.

But those moments, alas, were few and far between.

The parliament does a terrifically important job, went one argument: alas, too few voters know this.

Rather than making the case for democracy unassailable, plenty of countries, including, alas, a few of the old Warsaw Pact members, most of the Arab world and China, have been able to run shamelessly repressive authoritarian regimes.

A recent World Bank report pointed out that Africa could produce enough food to feed itself; alas, too few subsistence farmers get a chance to sell their produce (and usually get less than 20% of the market price).

(Also — and this is what interests me most about Bitcoin and its ilk — a network that serves as an example of a powerful and viable fully decentralized system; a notion which is by no means limited to electronic money, but which, alas, has few other successes to cite to date).