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How To Use few In A Sentence

• Mix together with as few stirs as possible - mixing too much will make the muffins too dense and heavy. The Sun
• By the time harmony was a few centuries old, it began to shiver and shake from them.
• It also seems to carry the well-tempered glow of late Woody Allen with a well-satisfied view of late life and with few illusions. The Unshine Boys
• 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.
• Everyone's at it - apart from a few notable and honourable exceptions. The Sun