a few  

Definition of a few in English Dictionary

• Pronom
  1. A small number of things.
     1. Regrets, I've had a few, but then again too few to mention.
• Déterminant
  1. A small number of. Not zero but more than two.
• Plus d'exemples
  1. Utilisé au milieu de la phrase
     • Not a few — maybe most — hold its eating contests, roller coaster and skeeball in high regard.
     • The sidewalk runs next to the street for a few miles, then diverges from it and turns north.
     • I try to put a few dollars aside each week, just in case I need money in an emergency.
  2. Utilisé au début de la phrase
     • A few triaperturate pollen grains possibly belonging to Normapolles complex indicate that the vegetation from the Velaux region was probably composed of both gymnosperms (Coniferales) and angiosperms.
     • A few days after Bailey's success, on June 16, in Boston, Dr. Dwight Harken successfully performed his first valvulotomy for mitral stenosis.
     • A few iconoclasts insist that bulbs can reflower, and you may be proving them right, but it is more likely that you started with at least two bulbs similar in size.
  3. Utilisé dans la fin de la phrase
     • The area was plagued by all sorts of vermin: fleas, lice, mice, and rats to name a few.
     • The name "Appalachia" evokes a host of popular images and stereotypes: feuds, individualism, moonshine, subsistence farming, quilting bees, illiteracy, and dueling banjos, to name just a few.

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  1. Déterminants
  2. Pronoms

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