很少人活到100岁。

Few people live to be 100 years old.

Very few people live to be 100.

Source: Tatoeba

Sentence Composition

1 很少 hěnshǎo seldom; rarely
2 人 rén person; people

classifiers: 個, 位
3 活 huó
  1. to live
  2. alive
  3. living
  4. work
  5. workmanship
4 到 dào
  1. to reach; to arrive
  2. to leave for; to go to
  3. to (a place); until (a time); up to (a point)
  4. (verb complement indicating arriving at a place or reaching a point)
  5. considerate; thoughtful; thorough
=5 岁 suì
  1. variant of 岁 suì, year
  2. years old
=5 岁 suì
  1. classifier for years (of age)
  2. year
  3. year (of crop harvests)