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The first known suggestion that fewer should be used in place of less, in Robert Baker's 1770 Remarks on the English Language [1]. Fewer versus less is a debate in English grammar about the appropriate use of these two determiners.
Few: 3 Small number of something Quartet: 4 Referring to people working or collaborating especially in musical performance Great gross: 1,728 A dozen gross (12x144) Hat-trick: 3 The achievement of, a generally positive feat, three times in a game, or another achievement based on the number three [6] Several: 3+ Three or more but not many. Small ...
few; little; many; much; Degree determiners mark a noun phrase as indefinite. They also convey imprecise quantification, with many and much expressing a large quantity and few and little expressing a small quantity. Degree determiners are unusual in that they inflect for grade, a feature typical of adjectives and adverbs but not determiners.
Robyn Few (1958–2012), an American rights activist William Few (1748–1828), an American founding father from Georgia William Preston Few (1867–1940), the first president of Duke University
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A few languages have specific parts of speech that distinguish between two number categories: one or two, and more than two. The former category can be thought of as a single conflated singular-dual number. [257] For example, in the nouns of Kalaw Lagaw Ya: [258] [259] ùmay - "dog(s)" (one or two) ùmayl - "dogs" (plural, three or more)
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Aside from the ever-present threat of poachers, Javan rhinos face other threats. Because there are so few left, there is a lack of genetic diversity in the herd, and only about two males for every ...