The phrase "a few candidate" is not correct in written English.
It should be "a few candidates" to refer to multiple individuals being considered for a position or role.
Example: "We have a few candidates for the job who will be interviewed next week."
Alternatives: "several candidates" or "a handful of candidates."
A few candidate brown dwarfs have been sighted orbiting other stars, like an outsized Jupiter.
When they searched for what coded that protein in calditol-producing archaeal genomes, they found just a few candidate genes.
One of the more exciting announcements is that AMS has observed a few candidate events for anti-helium particles.
Although a few candidate genes and genomic domains for have been reported for MRKH, the genetic underpinnings remain largely unknown.
TOAR selects a few candidate nodes and prioritizes them by using a tree structure.
Contrarily, a very small motion search range contains a few candidate points for matching so that the best MV can be checked out within a short time.
The mechanisms of visceral pain and RAP are not fully understood, a heritable component has been demonstrated, and a few candidate genes proposed.
In its wireless communication range, there are a few candidate vehicles that have similar contact duration with R denoted as (N1,N2,…,Nm).
She's found a few candidate viruses that can link methane and oxygen to form ethylene, a building block of plastics, fertilizers and tires.
Only a few candidate MAPs have been proposed as potential linkers between the plasma membrane and microtubules (e.g., PLD [Gardiner et al., 2001]) and Arabidopsis membrane-integrated formin (AtFH4 [Deeks et al., 2010]).
As we will discuss later, research focused on identifying genetic associations with outcomes of interest to economists has moved from using data collected on a few candidate genotypes to those measuring variation across the full genome.
