many vs few vs some
Definitions
adjective
- a quantifier that can be used with count nouns and is often preceded by `as' or `too' or `so' or `that'; amounting to a large but indefinite number
Examples
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It might as well be closed, because in many American hospitals you're simply shooed from the windowsill after you've been nursed back to health (usually in 72 hours or less), and you're expected to "fly" on your own.
We had a gam one day, on this voyage, with a Yankee whale-ship, and a first-rate gam it was, for, as the Yankee had gammed three days before with another English ship, we got a lot of news second-hand; and, as we had not seen a new face for many months, we felt towards those Yankees like brothers, and swallowed all they had to tell us like men starving for news.
Definitions
adjective
- a quantifier that can be used with count nouns and is often preceded by `a'; a small but indefinite number
noun
- a small elite group
Examples
Mix together with as few stirs as possible - mixing too much will make the muffins too dense and heavy.
By the time harmony was a few centuries old, it began to shiver and shake from them.
The warden of prisons was contacted for information on the convict's behavior on the chain gang, or in a few cases on the State Farm.
