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ˈfar-beˈtween, a.
Occurring at long intervals; infrequent. (Chiefly in predicative use, after Campbell's echo of Blair's phrase.)
1743R. Blair Grave 589 Its Visits Like those of Angels' short, and far between. 1797Campbell Pleas. Hope II. 372 Like angel-visits, few and far between. 1836–9Dickens Sk. Boz, Elect. Beadle i. 37 Occasions for their coming into direct collision are neither few nor far between. 1861F. W. Robinson No Church I. 48 Travellers being so few and far between. 1873Symonds Grk. Poets x. 312 These pines are few and far between; growing alone or in pairs they stand like monuments upon the hills. |