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a few

ADJECTIVE
  1. more than one but indefinitely small in number
    a couple of roses
    a few roses

How To Use a few In A Sentence

  • By the time harmony was a few centuries old, it began to shiver and shake from them.
  • Sometime in the early eighteen hundreds, they trekked to the flat plain between the Ohio River and Lake Erie and settled in Mount Vernon, which was then a few small buildings in a forest of tall trees. A Renegade History of the United States
  • This is not good for anybody, except for a few curmudgeons and people who are embittered by nothing more than their own embitteredness.
  • Some of my remarks here are directed toward conventional scientists, who generally refrain from commenting critically on the wild ideas of a few of their colleagues because it is bad manners.
  • A few talented writers en dowed with originality and exceptional animation, a few brilliant efforts, isolated, without following, interrupted and recommenced, did not suffice to endow a nation with a solid and imposing basis of literary wealth. Literary and Philosophical Essays: French, German and Italian
  • 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.
  • Although a few years old already, this possibly mistitled book is a good read for anyone interested in relationships.
  • You can't expect to learn a foreign language in a few months.
  • Everyone's at it - apart from a few notable and honourable exceptions. The Sun
  • What do a few lives matter now if we can find new, unpolluted territories and new ways to survive? THE ANCIENT AND SOLITARY REIGN
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