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few

/fjuː/ pronoun B1
  1. Few people, few things. · Many are called, but few are chosen.
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I’m to see her alone to-morrow evening for a few minutes.
Six stories from The Four Million, p. 11 · C1
But don’t forget to burn a few punk sticks in the joss house to the great god Mazuma from time to time.
Six stories from The Four Million, p. 11 · C1
For there's very few children possess such a thing;
A Child's Garden of Verses, p. 16 · C1
I think I could, if I only knew how to begin.” For, you see, so many out-of-the-way things had happened lately, that Alice had begun to think that very few things indeed were really impossible.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, p. 5 · B2

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