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The meaning of few is not many persons or things. How to use few in a sentence. (a) little and (a) few are quantifiers meaning ‘some’.

Little and few have negative meanings. Few and a few are both used in front of nouns, but they do not have the same meaning. You use a few simply to show that you are talking about a small number of people or things.

Although indefinite in nature, a few is usually more than two (two often being. The few means a small set of people considered as separate from the majority, especially because they share a particular opportunity or quality that the others do not have. Few is a word for a small, non-specific number.

A few is somewhere between a couple and a whole bunch. When you say you're going to have a few fries, you'd better not eat the whole order — a few. When few is used with a noun, the noun is plural:

Note also the slight difference in meaning between few and a few. See examples of few used in a sentence. The phrases quite a few and, less commonly, not a few or (chiefly brit) a good few all mean “fairly many.”