But in modern science, few discoveries are born in final form from so few parents.
A few discoveries have been especially striking: 500-year-old pitch pines near Saratoga Springs and 1,700-year-old 1,700-year-old 1,700-year-oldagara.
As a student, Davies was told that fieldwork would yield few discoveries compared with lab-based work such as DNA profiling.
Mr. Kuby in turn hired a private detective, Jay Salpeter, who within a few months' time — and "with very little effort," as Judge Spatt noted — made a few discoveries that upended the case.
But the news articles about her first few discoveries have already broadened public awareness of the extent to which the United States depended on slaves to build the national as well as the Southern economy.
He follows up with a few discoveries about their two families made after he became an adult, like the way Arkady's mother, Faya, did not starve to death during the war.
Aside from the work of masters like Pissarro, and a few discoveries like the German Lesser Ury (1861-1931), whose voluptuous "Reclining Nude" (1889) is symbolic of the radical departure from Jewish religious traditions brought about by the 19th century, the issues highlighted in this show are more historical and cultural than aesthetic.
They, too, are making a few discoveries: that the promising Jade Dernbach needs more than a variety of cunning slower balls to prosper in 50-over cricket at this level; that Ravi Bopara is maturing; that Ben Stokes can hit the ball a long way.
There were few discoveries to be made on the wine list -- in Champagne or elsewhere -- but the Rodez Cuvee An 2000 ($36) is an easy-drinking Champagne with some nuance, and the ample Bollinger Special Cuvee ($45) always goes down well.
Few discoveries before or since have inspired more hype (they regrow spines!) or rancor (its murder of unborn babies!).
