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ADJECTIVE few COMPARATIVE fewer SUPERLATIVE fewest

few English

Meaning few meaning

What does few mean?

Definitions in simple English

few Determiner

— Few things are not many things.. very few problems are as big as this. There are so few good books. I can't believe how few people are here. There are so many problems and few are easy.

few

— adjective a quantifier that can be used with count nouns and is often preceded by 'a'; a small but indefinite number a few weeks ago a few more wagons than usual an invalid's pleasures are few and far between few roses were still blooming few women have led troops in battle — noun a small elite group it was designed for the discriminating few

Synonyms few synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as few?

few English » English

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Topics few topics

What do people use few to talk about?

States Quantity Plural

Few, little

What words indicate that there are a small number of things or people?

few a small number of one or two a handful of sparse not many a couple of
What words indicate that there are a very small number of things or people?

very few

States Time Aspectual time Past

Examples few examples

How do I use few in a sentence?

Simple sentences

You have only to read a few pages of this book.

I want a few empty glasses.

Few people think so.

Quite a few people came to the party.

Few people live to be ninety years old.

A few years ago, our room had little furniture in it.

Very few fat men have long noses.

Tom is one of the few people I can trust.

Tom solved the puzzle after Mary gave him a few hints.

Few people have a typewriter.

Few people realize it, but it's true.

I only know a few words.

I have a few ideas.

Tom lived in Boston for a few years.

If I wanted to scare you, I would tell you what I dreamt about a few weeks ago.

It took me more than two hours to translate a few pages of English.

Will you listen to me for a few minutes?

You'll be able to drive a car in a few days.

Your composition is perfect except for a few mistakes.

There are few mistakes in your composition.

There are few high-ranking positions left open for you.

Air quality has deteriorated these past few years.

Little money, few friends.

Few people visit me these days.

There were few students remaining in the classroom.

Can you extend your holiday by a few days?

Can you spare me a few minutes of your valuable time?

You must keep quiet for a few days.

Your composition is very good, and it has few mistakes.

Your composition has a few mistakes.

Bridges are burning and chances are few.

There were few students left in the classroom.

It took him only a few minutes to realize his mistakes.

Movie subtitles

Within just a few years, China turned in on itself.

Well we only became best friends a few days ago.

Over the next hour, we'll show you how the hunt for alien life has dramatically changed over the past few decades.

We found a few rocky planets with hard surfaces, but they're many times more massive than Earth and contain the most hostile environments you could ever imagine.

Kepler will simply do one thing unbelievably well - measure the brightnesses of 1 00,000 stars over and over and over, looking for a few of those 1 00,000 stars that dim.

If you can check out a few million star systems, you have a really good chance of finding a signal from ET.

Here's a few yuan to tide you over.

So, everything that you'll need to get you through the next few hours.

Four harvest and three transplants in the next few hours before the final kidney goes to St. Donald's children's hospital.

You're flying off to Paris with a poet that you met a few hours ago.

They can be wonky. Few people know this, but bald eagles aren't bald at all.

You know, for the last few months I thought Rebecca Bunch was our problem.

Well, I just want to tell you a few things.

Maybe you'll lose a few pounds, huh?

Henk received an invitation from Prof. Oort, the director of the Leiden Observatory, to come and work with him for a few months.

Henk came back after a few months with a very intriguing story.

We do see the old main building of the radio station and a few other buildings.

We hadn't come to Algeria for this, but to unite the East and the West like we'd sworn to do a few months earlier in Paris.

I know, I know, but I just need to change a few lines.

What? Admin clearly thinks that a few carnival games will stop everyone's depression.

A few, at least.

In a few seconds he collapses dead on the floor.

Would you have a few marks for me?

Just because a few fathers wring their hands and a few mothers cry heart-rendingly!

In the arc of a few centuries, over 8 million women, men and children were burned as witches.

I want to stage a few Bolshevik atrocities for the American idiot.

Your answer. quick - they can survive but a few moments!

There's only a few of them.

Fortunately for you...we're not actually interested in what you did over the last few days.

She starts developing this little mini-relationship with this guy and having a few encounters with him, only to find out that that is also a figment of her imagination.

I got about 100 bones that need a few hours to heal. Hmm?

Their intelligence information level is really high. No, only a few people knew about that place.

Who are those who knew about that place? Our family, the Chief Secretary, Eun Si Gyeong, the safety inspection team and only a few guards.

I-I'D LIKE A FEW MINUTES WITH YOU NOW, PLEASE.

I-I WAS DOING SOME WORK EARLIER WITH KAREN, AND JUST WONDERING IF I COULD TALK TO HER FOR A FEW MINUTES.

I-I'LL SEE YOU IN A FEW MINUTES.

Few people know this, but bald eagles aren't bald at all.

News and current affairs

But if the human capacity for destruction knows few limits, the ability to start over again is just as remarkable.

Few people can muster great enthusiasm for the UN.

A few years ago, however, I started paying attention to space again.

For everyone else, a kind of state of emergency was proclaimed that has allowed state interference in essential civil rights. Controls at borders have become an ordeal for many, and police persecution now burdens quite a few.

Since he first appeared at the side of Dr. Chaim Weizmann in the late 1940's during the struggle for Jewish statehood and sovereignty, few people could articulate the Zionist and later the Israeli case with comparable eloquence and conviction.

When the idea was first floated some 10 years ago, expansion into the Baltics was taken seriously by few people.

Indeed, enlargement of NATO comes only a few days after a deal was struck between Russia and the EU on the tricky question of access to the Russian enclave of Kaliningrad.

Only a few years ago EU and NATO enlargement were regarded as wild dreams.

Even today, the Bomb divides the world into two classes: the few states have it, and the many that do not.

After all, it hesitated little a few years ago to put a current member state, Austria, on notice that it was watching out for the welfare of that country's democracy.

But few saw, for instance, the Artic ice cap melting as rapidly as now seems to be the case.

North Korea may also have a few bombs.

NEW HAVEN - Few economists predicted the current economic crisis, and there is little agreement among them about its ultimate causes.

At the Millennium Assembly in 2000, the US promised to pursue reduction of global poverty, yet it has taken few steps in that direction.

Controls at borders have become an ordeal for many, and police persecution now burdens quite a few.

From here, then, all that is required to become a nuclear power are a few small technical steps and political leaders' decision to take them.

By building up savings over a few years, the farmers eventually become creditworthy, or have enough cash to purchase vitally necessary inputs on their own.

The good news is that economic research does have a few things to say about whether Europe should have a single currency.

Or they can treat the crisis as a wake-up call to fix what debt has papered over in the last few decades.

Nobel laureates such as Martin Luther King, Lech Walesa, and Aung San Suu Kyi are but a few of the many examples that the Nobel Committee has recognized in previous years.

Health problems will be negligible for all but a few nations.