But a relative few did much better than everyone else.
The entire population, give or take a relative few, has killed itself off.
Bobby Valentine, the Red Sox manager, was one of the relative few who predicted Suzuki's greatness.
As a result, the number of characters required can be held to a relative few.
Only a relative few can now read its poetry and tease out its meanings.
A relative few have orbits that bring them into Earth's atmosphere and down to the surface as meteorites.
Only a relative few of these are upright and in original placement, but many of the rest can be seen and visited, half buried or prone.
Only a relative few species — ants, honeybees, termites — have evolved social systems where you have a few reproductive individuals and hundreds or millions of nonreproductive nest mates.
Safety experts said that because only a relative few vehicles had been tested so far, more testing would be needed to understand the results fully.
We cannot allow the actions of a relative few to tarnish all who serve, or more significantly, to discourage future generations from answering their call to service.
To be sure, some fighting did take place in clear detail on television, some of it late at night when a relative few were watching.
