Meaning of FEW AND FAR BETWEEN - A Really Short English Lesson with Subtitles

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In English if you're talking about things and you refer to them as being few and far
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between it means that there aren't very many of them.
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Maybe in your city good restaurants are few and far between.
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That would mean that your city doesn't have a lot of good restaurants.
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Maybe in your city restaurants that make good food and charge a reasonable amount of money
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are few and far between.
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Again, that would mean that there aren't very many of them.
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Some people say that honest people are few and far between in this world and I hope that
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that's not true.
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I hope that there are a lot of honest people in this world and I hope that dishonest people
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are actually few and far between.
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So, again, if you are referring to things that are few and far between it means that
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there aren't very many of them.
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There's a few other words that you can use to talk about this.
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You can say that things are scarce.
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So you could say that restaurants that make good food are scarce in my city, or you could
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say that they are rare, that would also mean that there are not very many of them.
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Or you could say that restaurants that make good food and charge a reasonable amount of
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money are uncommon in my city.
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So all of these words, scarce, rare, and uncommon mean the same thing as few and far between.
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I hope that honest people in your country aren't uncommon.
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I hope that they aren't rare.
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I hope that there are lots of them and I hope that you are one of them.
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