The news also leaves drivers Jenson Button and Rubens Barrichello facing an uncertain future, with spare places in rival teams few and far between.

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Setbacks have proved few and far between, going through 2010 unbeaten with her Commonwealth gold in India a particular highlight.

CNN: Supreme fitness

With boundaries few and far between, the Black Caps were forced to trades in ones and twos as Afridi and Gul produced spells which were tailor-made for Twenty20 cricket.

BBC: Gul heroics inspire Pakistan win

The gear change never happened and although chances were few and far between in the second half it looked like below-par Arsenal would escape the DW Stadium with three points - especially when N'Zogbia was sent off with 12 minutes to play.

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"The prospects are few and far between, " says Louis Gagliardi, an oil analyst with John S. Herold Inc. in Norwalk, Conn.

FORBES: The Big Plunge

"The prospects are few and far between, " says Louis Gagliardi, an oil analyst with John S. Herold Inc. in Norwalk, Connecticut.

FORBES: The Big Plunge

Gone from inches to millimeters in thickness so far, and will get thinner with Haswell 4th generation Intel core processors in a few months.

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Despite Prior's enthusiasm, the scheme had few supporters in the British cabinet and was firmly rejected by the SDLP as falling far short of power-sharing with a meaningful Irish dimension.

BBC: Northern Ireland

Although pressing ahead with reforms started by his right-wing predecessor (revamping the health service, streamlining the armed forces, promoting morality in public life, and so on), he has so far come up with few of his own.

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