Sentence examples for few commodities from inspiring English sources

Few commodities have a darker history than sugarcane.

Few commodities have been more volatile this year than oil, which has surged nearly 80percentt since January.

All the same, the task for black America is not to get its symbols in shape: symbolism is one of the few commodities we have in abundance.

While China's exports to the region span a wide range of manufactured goods, its imports are highly concentrated in a few commodities (see chart 2).

FEW commodities are impervious to the "China effect"—the upward pressure on prices from rampant demand in the world's bounciest big economy.

The economies of the region are marked by dependence on the export of a few commodities, commonly agricultural, and consequently are extremely vulnerable to external economic events.

Indeed, Australia is one of the few commodity-based economies that has not suffered from the natural resource curse.

I can't ignore who is actually paying the price for this and I don't like the fact that a few commodity traders make billions while the people in the producing countries remain bitterly poor".

It's gone because the grass was overturned and the bison were chased off the land and the riot of biodiversity that had evolved over 10,000 years was replaced by a few commodity crops to feed us.

With the annual production of millions of tons the few commodity polymers that dominate the market cannot satisfy all the expectations.

A recent Multi-Strategy portfolio shows large positions in three bond index funds, smaller positions in two stock index funds and a few commodity and foreign currency plays.