Theirs were tests of real seamanship, and there were few disasters.

They are associated with many successes and with few disasters.

Hence have arisen not a few disasters.

This is the celebrated battle at the Trasimenus, and recorded among the few disasters of the Roman people.

Do you think that our ancestors learned to wayfind on the oceans without experiencing a few disasters along the way?

There are few disasters greater for husband or wife than the marriage of a boy of twenty to a woman a dozen years his senior.

Few disasters are more complete and unpredictable than the wreck of a modern supertanker.

Few disasters can destroy them all, and in the loss of one or more the soul is kept afloat by the others.