LekhoriLekhoriAn indefinite, but usually small, number of.
There are a few cars (=some, but a relatively small number) in the street.
Not many; a small (in comparison with another number stated or implied) but somewhat indefinite number of.
Very few did she have not to go there, did she?
Obscuring one to two oktas (eighths) of the sky.
Tonight: A few clouds. Increasing cloudiness overnight.
Few people, few things.
Many are called, but few are chosen.
The pilots who fought in the Battle of Britain.
A surname.
From Middle English fewe, from Old English fēaw (“few”), from Proto-West Germanic *fau, from Proto-Germanic *fawaz (“few”), from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂w- (“few, small”). Cognate with Old Saxon fā (...
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