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.
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
A few fields have the remains of small sunken stone dwellings, intimate as those at Skara Brae.
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
There were a few cows dotted around in the field.
Anybody who has ever been on a North Queensland pastoral lease knows that you can go 20, 30, 40 miles day after day and all you will see is a few brumbies and some wild pigs; you will not see any cattle anywhere.
Moreover some parts of gain will devolute to Italian Red Cross seriously employed in the disastrous earthquake land that hit the middle lands of Italia few weeks ago. MacMegasite
Divide half the mixture between 4 glass bowls, then sprinkle with a few fresh raspberries and a bit more crushed honeycomb. The Sun
The blame for this month's wet weather lies with the jet stream winds a few miles high. Times, Sunday Times
I have been very busy lately and the ongoing project will take up about a few more weeks.
There are a few formalities to be gone through before you enter a foreign country.
I have no great picture of her to link because I am out of town in San Francisco and all the pictures I have are the naked librarian Playboy centerfolds I got in email a few days back.
A spokesman said: ‘Snow will continue through the day with a few dry interludes and it will slowly improve by the afternoon with snow turning more showery.’
We cannot support all the shops we have already, so a few more very expensive units can only remain empty and unused.
A few years ago she was the victim of a con man.
It's that last part Buckley is singing about, but he probably should have considered penning a few lines to himself regarding the "musician gone too soon" part.
He slapped away a few dryads, but they still surrounded him.
Dance the coxswain was the first affected in that way, but after a few moments Mark felt that the poor fellow had been suffering in The Black Bar
Butterflies enjoy the daisy family too, and there are a few that they especially love. Times, Sunday Times
The baby was born with a heart problem and only survived for a few hours.
Let's find out what's coming up in a few minutes on "PAULA ZAHN NOW" -- Paula. CNN Transcript Feb 2, 2006
The doctor has said that I can start stepping down my medication in a few days' time.
A few uncounted votes or a few thousand voters turned away can be the difference between a national victory or not.
A few billion of that new economic rescue plan will go to weatherize one million homes a year.
Just before serving, prepare a few small cheese ravioli and place them in each bowl before you add the soup.
In many places, glittering among the clothes, were gold and silver coins, a few silver ornaments such as buckles, and watches -- things not missed by the pirates in the transport of their flight. The Frozen Pirate
Once the coals are covered in a fur of white ash, start by barbecuing a few vegetables.
Only a few minutes had gone when the Welshman flung in an inviting right-foot cross to the back post.
I could be wrong but as I recall in Batman Begins Batman 'growled' his lines just a few times but to very strong effect. All of The Dark Knight's Broken Records - Box Office Dominance! « FirstShowing.net
Leaving London they went to Paris, where they passed a few days, but soon grew weary of the place; and Lord Chetwynde, feeling a kind of languor, which seemed to him like a premonition of disease, he decided to go to Germany. The Cryptogram A Novel
This was just a few years after Lord Byron woke to find Child Harold's Pilgrimage in the bookshops and himself famous, as it were, overnight.
Suffice to say there are a few bruised knees. Times, Sunday Times
For instance, a few weeks ago in my sports statistics class, I envisioned a type of graph that’s a combination boxplot and lineplot — instead of turning towards Excel, I coded a Mathematica module to create this type of graph and then automate the creation of many of these. Wolfram Blog : Get Your Game On for Mathematics Awareness Month!
Prior to the 19th century, the region's social structure - outside of a few major cities, including Baghdad - was organized primarily around relatively isolated tribal confederations.
For except it be treacle and mithridatum, and of late diascordium, and a few more, they tie themselves to no receipts severely and religiously. The Advancement of Learning
Deefer took others off to see if there might not be a few plump wherries in the hills; they would make a nice change from the tough herdbeast meat, the supply of which was now virtually ex - hausted. Nerilka's Story
A few years ago it was suggested that auroral phenomena could exist on Mars too.
For a very long time I loved the idea of writing but did very little - I published a few stories, and workshopped myself into submission.
This facility is intended to help a few hundred families living in public housing by training them to be grocery store clerks.
I have seen far too many people give up too quickly on their programs after a few short weeks.
Last night, a steady stream of people arrived at the evacuation centre in Brisbane's showground, only a few minutes' drive from the swollen river. Brisbane residents flee homes as floodwaters rise
They conquered the southern part of the country in a few months.
Revenge is a by-the-book sequel, crowbarring in all of the memorable features of the first movie, spicing them up with even more ludicrous ultra violence and adding a few new twists to the tale.
Only a few people close to me have had anything happen. Everyday Violence
A few people were crying, and one girl was very sick and puking, but most people tried to stay calm.
There are a few plotlines and characters - Sophie's mother in particular - that are somewhat redundant and unnecessary.
And, yes, the otherwise companionless apartment smelled like love for a few weeks each spring. The Orangery
We're going to work freehand as well as with a few stencils - we might try the idea in the book of using chalk dust, or we may just use the chalks as-is.
At any rate, she rolled up the cuffs of her camouflage cargo pants a few times so she didn't trip if today's class required running.
Not that I'm denigrating the effort - I'm good for a few quid once I've got a few beers in me later tonight - but the enforced jollity does occasionally grate.
For a few weeks in the summer, visitors are able to go round Buckingham Palace.
maybe god wants us to meet a few wrong people before meeting the right one, so that when we finally meet the person, we will know how to be grateful.
We're currently shrinking the size of technology by a factor of 5.6 per linear dimension per decade, so it is conservative to say that this scenario will be feasible in a few decades.
A few days after, they brought the intelligence that Barbarina had returned; and the councillor dwelt with her in her new house; and the servants were commanded to call the signora Madame Cocceji. as she was his well-beloved and trusted wife. Berlin and Sans-Souci; or Frederick the Great and his friends
And those involved are pretty small: a few degrees between cooler land and warmer ocean at night, a few tens of degrees between tropics and poles. Eating the Sun: How Plants Power the Planet
I looking forward to seeing Mark as we've been apart for a few days.
The dozen pictures she had shot during a recent bath time -- including a few of Nora rinsing with a handheld shower sprayer -- were, for Cynthia, simply part of the vast photographic record she was keeping of her family's life. Lynn Powell: Pornographer or Soccer Mom?
The total sales of the company didn't amount to more than a few million dollars.
There was a deal of shouting from Jamie's direction, and general hubbub, as a few people came out of the pothouse, staring. A Breath of Snow and Ashes
A few alpha particles were deflected from their straight course.
If you unzip our sample document and load content.xml into a text editor, you should notice a few things.
I have a patient who had major abdominal surgery a few years ago for a fulminant illness.
A few plum accents can bring in a note of elegance to any room; try a throw pillow or two, or a plum lampshade with a fringe?
In this regard, I offer a few guesses about some general directions in which statistical physics may change.
At the last minute I decided to go, so I flung a few clothes together and left.
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is like an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty. Mahatma Gandhi
There were only a few rapids and they were extremely tame.
We lapped the track a few times at a walk, trot and canter and the horse went through it pretty smoothly.
Halpern kept his arms crossed and eyes forward, while Ren was grinning and tucking a few stray hairs up under a mesh caul.
I usually sqirt a drop or two on the front and back of my boots, and a few drops on a wick around the stand. i never used the buck pee though. i have used a couple of tarsal glands from a buck that my friend killed. had small buck circle the tree i hung it from a couple times. When to use What deer pee?
It's different now, there are a few more pundits and a lot of faceless people out there on social media who all have an opinion. The Sun
Close beside me stood my excellent friend Griffiths, the jolly hosteler, of whom I take the present opportunity of saying a few words, though I dare say he has been frequently described before, and by far better pens. The Bible in Spain
Next follows the cella, and beyond that, the adytum; there are a few sculptures on the walls of the adytum; on those of the pronaos Travels in Nubia
Human relations do not always rely on meeting each other in person every day. When we talk about relationships between people on either side of the border, just a few thousand miles can’t keep love from growing and blooming into a beautiful bonding. Gulzar
A few weeks before the vote on November 7, the buzz goes, Cheney will announce his resignation, ostensibly because of signs of new trouble with his ticker.
Lift your feet a few inches off the floor and slowly rock backwards and forwards. Healthy By Nature
As a postscript to the story, my great grandfather died a few weeks after this conversation, proving, as his wife pointed out to her daughter, that she had been correct in her surmise.
Said hi also to a few of the guys from Aereogramme after they'd finished up, but wasn't actually sure of who was there from Chemikal Underground or what they look like, so I was basically floating around and looking glaikit until Mags pointed out the Newsnight crew, and the nice interviewer man figured out who I was. Archive 2007-02-01
Our interneuronal connections in our brain, for example, process information at chemical signaling speeds of a few hundred feet per second, compared to a billion feet per second for electronics - electronics is a million times faster.
As for leisure activities, a few old weights and a sledgehammer is the gym. CNN Transcript Sep 10, 2009
The coulpe or peccavi, is made for a very small matter — a broken glass, a torn veil, an involuntary delay of a few seconds at an office, a false note in church, etc.; this suffices, and the coulpe is made. Les Miserables
While on the elimination diet, try to avoid hanging on to a few favourite foods and eating only those. The Allergy Handbook
He made a few conventional remarks about the weather.
Maybe your parents are right about waiting a few more years until you decide.
A few nights ago, after viewing one of these, I was quaffing beer in Bombay Peggy's and learned that every one of the four women at the table happened to live on the other side of a river, either the Yukon or the Klondike.
There were a few awkward social situations. Times, Sunday Times
This being Los Angeles, and me being a hick from the sticks, I was only a few feet away from asking the shorter guy for an autograph, when I chickened out.
Those morning glories are grown every year along the south face of the historic, well-preserved post-and-beam barn that is the center of Heritage Farm; the 890-acre spread a few miles north of Decorah that Seed Savers Exchange now calls home. Kurt Michael Friese: Memories of a Life Spent Saving Seeds
Every large town will have quite a few horologers and jewelers with a vast selection of fancy watches displayed their windows, with huge price tags to go with them.
She was in her sixties and wore her thinning gray hair pulled back in a loose bun with all but a few strands secured by bobby pins.
The beak is smoth, black, convex and cultrated; one and 1/8 inches from the point to the opening of the chaps and 3/4 only uncovered with feathers; the upper chap exceeds the other a little in length. a few small black hairs garnish the sides of the base of the upper chap. the eye is of a uniform deep sea green or black, moderately large. it's legs feet and tallons are white; the legs are an inch and a 1/4 in length and smoth; four toes on each foot, of which that in front is the same length with the leg including the length of the tallon, which is 4 lines; the three remaining toes are The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806
Other procedures available are otoplasty (ear correction), rhinoplasty, liposculpture, penile enhancement and face, neck and brow lifts to name but a few.
They'd moved to their cottage a few years ago and ran an electrical business in Didcot.
Though Jane tells herself stories, listens to stories told by others, and reads, she never writes anything other than a few letters-misaddressed and undelivered letters, at that.
Listen to our astronomers talk about the magnitudes and disunites and composition of the stars, and compare with their story that which was written in the astronomy of a few centuries ago. The World's Great Sermons, Volume 10 Drummond to Jowett, and General Index
In 100 days we saw two pods of dolphins, a pod of blue whales and a few marine birds. Times, Sunday Times
Yea, we see in that wailing infant of a week, the outspringing of an immortal spirit which may soon hover on cherub-pinion around the throne of God, or perhaps, in a few years, sink to the regions of untold anguish. The Christian Home
The lymphatic vessels of the tongue may be divided into four groups: (1) apical, from the tip of the tongue to the suprahyoid glands and principal gland of the tongue; (2) lateral, from the margin of the tonguesome of these pierce the Mylohyoideus to end in the submaxillary glands, others pass down on the Hyoglossus to the superior deep cervical glands; (3) basal, from the region of the vallate papillæ to the superior deep cervical glands; and (4) median, a few of which perforate the Mylohyoideus to reach the submaxillary glands, while the majority turn around the posterior border of the muscle to enter the superior deep cervical glands. VIII. The Lymphatic System. 3. The Lymphatics of the Head, Face, and Neck
Well, the good news is a few weeks ago they were talking about it being the main source of law, so there has been some concession there, which the Iraqi women leaders have been fighting for.
One afternoon, I grew bored and actually fell asleep for a few minutes.
For a few odd and unsettling moments, the song hovers on its own, left virtually untouched except for the subtle fuzz of static in the background.
I ` d like to see it minus bodywork to see if it ` s got smaller wheels than the big old hoops normal for the period, cos i reckon even tho the bodywork is quite wide, full lock would find large dia. wheels causing a few problems. 1930 Art Deco Henderson
McCarthy remains dismissive of the allegations and defensive of the former sergeant, saying he was "brutalized" by his colleagues, in particular, by a few senior officers "exerting locker room peer pressure" in the department ranks. MPNnow Home RSS
Within a few days of its unveiling Achilles was modestly kitted out with a fig leaf.
I won't go into detail over the phone, but I've been having a few health problems recently.
Letters from my family are sort of depressing, though sometimes my cousins write a few words that makes me laugh.
We had another good touristy day today, visiting a few galleries, beaches and the like.
And if you can develop a machine to look for the needle in the haystack and what you come out with from having the machine sift through the haystack is a box of straw, where maybe the needle's in there and maybe a few bonus needles, then that's a whole lot better than having humans try to sift through a haystack. Wired Top Stories
A few weeks later I was fired from my job at Hunter College.
A few minutes with the heron book cleared up the mystery; they were tricolored herons, the first I had ever seen.10 By the end of the month American goldfinches were shooting around like tossed gold pieces despite another cold spell. Bird Cloud
We came here with a few players making their debuts and they have done great. The Sun
The group had cobbled together a few decent songs.
There were a few awkward social situations. Times, Sunday Times
Save for a worktable placed almost exactly in the center of the floor, I see only a few benches, some unlit rush lamps, a large set of scales, and a wooden crate, which I discover upon examination contains small crystal vials waiting to be filled. Secret History of Elizabeth Tudor, Vampire Slayer
They establish a colony on Ragol but this perfect planet soon unleashes a few surprises and all hell breaks loose.
While a video screen adds a few visual puns, it seems almost an afterthought. Times, Sunday Times
In a second or three, take one high stakes football match, throw in that controversial miscall, stir it up with loads of angry fans, whisk in a few politicians, let it bake overnight and what you end up with is a tasty football ferrora (ph). CNN Transcript Nov 20, 2009
One can hardly believe that this paper mill was started from scratch only a few years ago.
Isn't there quite a few "rotund" people in the Obama administration??? Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local
Perhaps it comes straight out of that party line dictionary that was written in a smoke-filled room in Sevastapol Street by the same faceless Provo apparatchik who a few years back advocated the practically endless use of the term 'securocrat'. Archive 2009-01-01
A few farms were dotted about in the valley.
In the absence of actual selfie evidence, let me provide a few snapshots. Times, Sunday Times
Based on the number of coffee cans I found in his garbage a few weeks ago, I'd say he drinks 8-9 pots of coffee every day, or about 30 shots of espresso.
In a field where biological material is limited, experimental cytogenetic techniques often require only a few cells.
He is a bit upset by that, that anybody thought he was wanting to leave just for one half-time where I was more direct with the players than I have been for a few months.
With a few turns of tape, I fastened the plastic cup to the end of the pole.
The committee will publish their report on the health service in a few weeks.
There are a few ridges and ranges in the distance.
Striking that balance between old and new will always be difficult, but after a few numbers here, memories of their old bandmaster begin to fade.
Canadians were unhappy with so-called intrusive questions, the aggravation of filling it out and even a few were convinced the census was part of a government plot, according to Thestar.com - Home Page
It was a beautiful wooden skiff, with a little outboard motor, perfect for his part-time second occupation of working a few pots to catch crustacea to sell to local pubs and restaurants.
If we got into Ceram (and got out again), the doctor would reduce the whole affair to a few tables of anthropological measurements, a few more hampers of birds, beasts, and native rubbish in the hold, and a score of paragraphs couched in the evaporated, millimetric terms of science. The Spinner's Book of Fiction
There are, true, a few tonal changes: the jokes are jokier, the touches of malice heavier, and she revels more obviously than before in the playfulness she brings to her performances. What Sarah Palin Doesn't Know
He began placing some of the medicines back into the first-aid kit ‘Wait here, I'll be back in a few sec.’
I just wanted to make a few comments about the sand trap that I'll call perspectival relativism.
So much so that when he tried out a few of his character's screen tricks on his family, they put him firmly in his place. The Sun
The band finished with a few slow dances.
A few years ago Rod and I were being lobbied by a group of officials from a large corporation.
Large numbers of vestal moths and a few crimson speckled moths, both normally resident in the Mediterranean, have been seen on the south-west and south-east coasts and in Gwynedd.
I said a few colorful words in our language, making him laugh.
He had made that long trek here for a few measly minutes of conversation.
Of course there's nothing wrong with necking a few beers and getting caught up in the buzz of the World Cup.
Immerse the plant for a few minutes.
* A few of the women flipped through photos of Manou's bastide, * observing its before and after transformation. French Word-A-Day:
BigshoeBazaar is an online cash and carry wholesaler for hundreds of small shoe stores across the country and is using a single 25,000 square feet warehouse, which will be enhanced to 100,000 square feet in a few months, to service shoe stores as far away as Dimapur in Nagaland and Katihar in Bihar. 'Hyper Growth' Returns To India's E-Commerce Sector
Kids sneaking into and R-rated film and having to be kicked out after a few minutes by n usher is one thing, but when the parents are taking them is another. R-Rated Movies: How Young Is Too Young? « FirstShowing.net
Every time I can scrape a few quid together, I smack 'em straight into the premium bonds.
The cash raising was not unexpected and allows a few more shareholders on board. Times, Sunday Times
I'll just summarize the main points of the argument in a few words if I may.
The plotters were arrested in September 2006, just a few months after the country broke away from Serbia.
As soon as everyone stopped laughing, they noticed a few baby cradles at the other side of the room.
A blonde girl, hmmm, with big boobs, that's not so easy to pinpoint, there have been a quite a few of them on the show.
After only a few minutes my normally florid complexion had begun to resemble Florida. Times, Sunday Times
Both names are unobjectionable, but as the term Caddo has priority by a few pages preference is given to it. Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1885-1886, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891
Lost in nostalgic souvenirs I ambled past les belles, snapping a few more photos along the way. Kindness of strangers
But there is bad news for dorks like me and, I suspect, quite a few people in this room: journalism has changed forever.
In the event, only a few of these reports were completed and circularized to the committee.
Thus, developing a vaccine directed against one or a few capsular polysaccharides may not be widely effective.
While she brings experience and sagacity, such a slim volume on such large topic demands a few leaps of faith, notwithstanding the appended 56 pages of interesting notes and comments.
The intricate, filigree footwork - very occasionally embellished with a few ballet steps such as an entrechat - is, on its own terms, both fascinating and exciting.
Just getting a teen to stop racing from activity to activity for a few minutes of quiet reading can be difficult.
And he leaped into the air while he was still quite a few feet away from his opponent. The Sun
Before she could announce me, I retrieved the coat, muttered a few feeble excuses, and ran.
The attachment of the new engine to the car only took a few minutes.
The feast begins with a few hunks of soft onion bread and a thimbleful of an intensely rich roasted-eggplant garlic spread.
At the May state dinner for Mexican President Felipe Calderón, prickly pear cactus showed up in vermeil wine coolers, and Dowling also tucked a few among the in the centerpieces of fuchsia roses and Cattleya orchids. White House florist shows Obamas' relaxed style
Sand volcanoes range in diameter from a few centimetres to several metres.
Everyone should own the original movie, but we've rounded up a few clips that only the most devoted fans will have seen before. Times, Sunday Times
I furiously scratched out what I had just written in the notebook, and replaced it with more than just a few malicious thoughts.
I need to buy a few basic things like bread and milk.
There have been a few teething problems, sorted out by a computer whiz-kid friend of my husband and - embarrassingly - my eight-year-old daughter.
Some are herbivores, grazing on the filamentous algae covering coral reefs, and a few eat seagrasses and algae on reef flats.
He's made some bad ones, to be sure - he was notably burned by telecom companies during the dotcom bust - but over the course of a few decades of investing, Gilder has become known as a prescient technophile. Forbes.com: News
With a sigh, I take a few steps around the deck and look homeward, towards the town.
Likewise, a few citation errors in the IPCC report were trumpeted as the final nails in the coffin for the climate movement, despite the fact that not a single investigation even those in which climate skeptics have participated has found any evidence thatscientists "fudged,""manipulated" or "manufactured" data, and the fundamental conclusions of the IPCC still stand. Kelly Rigg: The Movement with a Thousand Faces
I found myself a few minutes ago, by mistake, on a lolcats website. The lolcat is the essential representation of the malaise of contemporary life: people with too much time on their hands and no idea how to use it.
So a few weeks ago, way, way behind the bandwagon, I discovered the Norah Jones album.
On the path a few solitary scraps of withered white and blue police tape were a solemn reminder of the crime scene.
The CBE is a very prestigious honor, only a few journalists have ever received it. CNN Transcript Jun 18, 2007
While hibernation during the winter is found in a few arctic mammals such as the Arctic ground squirrel (Spermophilus parryii), most homeothermic animals are active throughout the year. General characteristics of arctic species and their adaptations in the context of changes in climate and ultraviolet-B radiation levels
A few appeared at the same time on both legs and were slightly raised but not 'knobbly', and not bad enough for her to want to stop wearing skirts. Home | Mail Online
The big detached houses a few streets inland on Victoria Road go for about a million. Times, Sunday Times
In a few short but intense years we began to atone for centuries of environmental degradation.
The submitted essays range in length from a few terse words to a screenful of close type.
I'll start with some generalities and then examine a few specific examples.
He pulled him off of her and, dodging a few punches, landed a few jabs and then a roundhouse punch.
At a giveaway price, it went to a development company who created what is now the Broadgate centre, a fairly ghastly set of offices with a few shops thrown in.
Aside from a few bemused looks from passers-by and a few words with the police, nothing untoward happened.
She does have a few fears, but they are unknown by most everyone because of her toughness.
It's been going on for a few months now and until recently I dismissed it as the call of a mimicking fork-tailed drongo.
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Her house is a shack made of sticks, black plastic and a few sheets of tin.
As it was a seafood evening, we paid particular attention to that side of the buffet, and there were again more than just a few choices, with many items presented in different ways, to suit all palates.

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