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Daily Easy English Expression Podcast

124 Daily Easy English Expression PODCAST—few and far between

Daily Easy English Expression Podcast

Shane Peterson

Language Learning, Education, Self-improvement

4.7756 Ratings

🗓️ 2 September 2014

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

Today’s expression and dialog: (to be) few and far between The food here is really good. Nice restaurants like this are few and far between. I agree. How’d you find it? Online.     Please subscribe on iTunes and get this podcast EVERY DAY! Support Coach Shane by giving $1 a month! www.patreon.com/coachshane Our sponsors: www.letsmasterenglish.com/tryddm (Get 8 FREE DDM lessons!) www.audibletrial.com/lme (Get a free AUDIO BOOK!) (Join DDM and get 1 lesson every week!) Our YouTube channel:   www.youtube.com/DailyEasyEnglish

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0:00.0

Hello everybody, my name is Coach Shane and welcome to easy English expressions.

0:11.0

You and me every day, come on, let's master English.

0:31.0

Hello everybody, welcome back to Daily Easy English Expression, the podcast.

0:35.9

Today's podcast is brought to you by you.

0:40.9

Yesterday I introduced a bunch of people on iTunes.

0:47.9

Today, I will introduce more people and the people from the Android app pages, people who left a comment about our show.

0:51.2

So that's coming up after today's lesson. Today, a very good expression for all of you.

0:57.6

It is to be few and far between. Oh, it is few and far between. F-E-W, few and far, F-A-R, B-E-T-W-E-E-E-E-E-E-N. What does it mean to be few and far between?

1:25.6

Well, basically that means something is very exceptional. It's rather rare, but very, very good.

1:37.6

Few and far between. There are not many. And if you find one, it will take you a long time to find another one of similar value, of similar quality.

1:54.0

There are not many.

1:55.7

Okay.

1:56.2

Let's talk about, for example, English classes on YouTube.

2:03.5

Oh, there are many English classes.

2:12.7

There are many YouTube channels and different teachers and different styles. But how many do you like? If you've been watching YouTube for three or four or five years,

2:20.3

you've probably seen many, many, many, many different English teachers.

2:25.3

But probably there's just a few that you like.

2:30.3

And every month, is there a new one you like?

2:33.3

No, it takes a long time before there's a new channel that you like.

2:38.9

So you can say good English channels on YouTube are few and far between.

2:47.0

Now, once again, on YouTube, there are many English classes.

2:50.5

What about for podcasts?

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