Sentence examples for few returns from inspiring English sources

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"few returns" is a completely correct and usable phrase in written English.
It can be used to refer to the little financial or emotional reward received in exchange for effort. For example, "After several years of hard work in a difficult profession, Jack felt disappointed in the few returns he was seeing for his effort."

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A few returns suggested that no one had voted.

Too many operators carrying too many channels and chasing too few returns: something has to give.

That I meet with so few returns is a circumstance that lies heavy at my Heart".

When Amazon emerged, publishers in New York suddenly had a new buyer that paid quickly, sold their backlist as well as new titles, and, unlike traditional bookstores, made very few returns.

But there will be few returns unless ethnic Albanians can be dissuaded more forcefully from taking revenge.As power struggles among the Serbs in Belgrade, Pristina (Kosovo's capital) and elsewhere become more desperate, the outcome will be influenced not only by western pressure but by Russia's new administration, which has sent mixed messages to its traditional Balkan friends.

The fact that the iPhone 4 went on to sell tens of millions of units — record numbers for Apple at the time — bringing in billions of dollars for the company with very few returns, sure seems to suggest Consumer Reports blew the situation way out of proportion.

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Few returned.

Statistics show that few returned.

He said few returned.

Few return to regular duty.

After two weeks, a few returned.

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