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What does few and far between mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word few and far between? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. (idiomatic) Rare and scarce; hard to find.
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He arrived in Whitby at a time when rural Methodist chapels were closing one by one and believers were few and far between.
Some tipsters do have good long-term records, largely because they study form every day, but they are few and far between.
Indeed, when communism constituted one of the two poles in the previous bipolar world order, terrorist acts were few and far between.
England's qualification will rely on some gritty away performances and I feel they may be few and far between.
But the cases where physical evidence exists to prove their innocence are few and far between.
Details remain few and far between, and as yet no background studies have been prepared.

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