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The phrase "a few acquire" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the limited number of individuals or entities that gain or obtain something.
Example: "In this competitive market, a few acquire the necessary skills to succeed while others struggle."
Alternatives: "some obtain" or "a handful gain".
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We were miles past a locked gate, standing in a landscape so spare that only a few acquire a taste for it.
Most viral particles are nonenveloped, but a few acquire an envelope structure during passage through the endoplasmic reticulum (8, 15 ).
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Important roles have been identified in a few acquired conditions.
But he continued: "It is a fact that anybody in this room could in a matter of a few weeks acquire the qualifications to supervise an Underground train.
Accordingly, the ARP cannot become dominant and only a few cells acquire it for a finite time (Fig. S4).
Unpublished observations by Poulsen and coworkers and by our group have shown that major workers emerge without any visible bacterial growth on their cuticle but within a few days acquire an extensive covering, which reaches a peak 10-25 10-25 eclosion.
The classical model for the metastatic process suggests that most cells of a given primary tumour have low metastatic potential and only a few cells acquire enough somatic mutations to become metastatic (Bernards and Weinberg, 2002).
We don't even need to burn a few calories acquiring the next one.
There have been a few "locally acquired" confirmed cases along the Texas-Mexico border since 1980, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Russia then turned to the east, and within the space of a few generations acquired a territory larger than the Roman Empire.
This HSC formation, in the aorta gonad mesonephros (AGM) region of each organism, marks the beginning of the definitive wave of hematopoiesis, with the majority of these cells functioning as progenitors and a few others acquiring self-renewal ability.
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