Sentence examples for being few and far between from inspiring English sources
Meanwhile, the movie and TV industry has been generally silent on this subject, with films exploring female feticide and infanticide being few and far between.
What with the cost being that high – and the number of free seats being few and far between – it is hardly surprising that just six tourists had followed in his zero-gravity footsteps by the end of the decade.
To substantiate this claim -- hunter-gatherers being few and far between these days -- the author extrapolates from the behavior of people who were studied by the first wave of anthropologists: Australian aborigines observed by Darwin himself, the population of the Andaman Islands and the !Kung tribe of the Kalahari desert.
Most infamous is the collapse and nonrecovery of the northern cod off Newfoundland (e.g., Haedrich and Hamilton 2000; Shelton et al. 2006), but also the southern Gulf of St Lawrence cod and North Sea cod are at historical lows, with good news being few and far between.
