1.  A Decade ago this was Checkpoint Charlie, one of the few gaps in an otherwise impenetrable barrier a hundred miles long.

2.  A few days later the few uneven patches were shaped up with a second mowing, with the greatest of ease.

3.  A knife-point poked into his back every few seconds, so he knew that the mestizo was close behind him.

4.  A large section of the roadway apparently disintegrated after the first few cars passed over it.

5.  A leading fashion editor suggests that in fact we have too many, rather than too few, clothes.

6.  A long time ago, when they opposed him, he put out the hand and moved the few steps to them.

7.  A lot of teachers expect the situation to worsen over the next few years.

8.  A lower temperature brings deeper sleep with fewer awakenings.

9.  A mitigating circumstance is the fact that few library users restrict themselves to one source alone for obtaining books.

10.  A network is a distributed thing without a center of control, and with few clear boundaries.