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Idioms and Phrases

A small number of persons or things. This phrase can differ slightly from few used alone, which means “not many.” For example, The party was to end at eight, but a few stayed on indicates that a small number of guests remained, whereas The party began at eight, and few attended means that hardly any guests came. [Late 1200s] Also see quite a bit (few) .

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I’d either go to the side area where there are a few chairs and sit and read or go to one of the benches that overlook the Japanese garden.

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I didn’t understand any of it until a few years ago when “Oppenheimer” came out.

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“Can you say them?” says Badgley, asking for a gentle reminder when we meet a few days before the episodes are released.

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Eubank Jr took his seat 15 minutes after the scheduled start time, leaving Benn and a few hundred of the boxing media waiting in a conference room overlooking the pitch at the fight night venue.

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That all changed a few months ago, when I visited a Fishwife pop-up in Manhattan shortly after moving to the city.

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