a few
pron1
A small number of things.
- Regrets, I've had a few, but then again too few to mention.
- Did everyone go home? ―No, a few (of them) are still chatting.
- Derived terms
- quite a few
a few
det/ə ˈfjuː/
1
A small number of (a set of countable items); more than one but not very many; especially, more than two but not very many (explained in usage note at several).
- She loves to sing karaoke, but there are a few songs that she refuses to cover.
- After a dismal few months my life at long last changed for the better.
2 more examples
- Only a few miles separates the villages.
- "I don't want to spoil any comparison you are going to make," said Jim, "but I was at Winchester and New College." ¶ "That will do," said Mackenzie. "I was dragged up at the workhouse school till I was twelve. Then I ran away and sold papers in the streets, and anything else that I could pick up a few coppers by—except steal.[…]"1909 September 9, Archibald Marshall [pseudonym; Arthur Hammond Marshall], chapter II, in The Squire’s Daughter, London: Methuen & Co. […], →OCLC: