The phrase "a few checks" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a small number of checks, often in the context of verifying or confirming something.
Example: "Before finalizing the report, I need to complete a few checks to ensure all the data is accurate."
Alternatives: "several checks" or "a couple of checks".
In the late 1980s, when a few check cashers started to accept postdated personal checks and advance cash for a fee, Nix thought it was a sleazy scheme.
Re "Too Much Medicine, and Too Few Checks" (Personal Health, April 17): Jane E. Brody provides a compelling example of the harms that medications can cause in older adults.
At Morgan, internal compliance personnel performed few checks until July 1998, the firm said in a submission to the N.A.S.D., because compliance officials could not get the information electronically.
If you have a few minutes today, check out MAPH '08 alum Kristin Fitzsimmons' webseries What Did You Look Up on Wikipedia?
A few hours earlier, Skinner had checked on a schizophrenic man who calls the police multiple times each night, reporting paranoid hallucinations; the department can never ignore a call, because he is the legal owner of a.357 Magnum revolver, and officers told me that he once tried to execute an intruder in his front yard.
Feel free to click through and check out a few other Thanksgiving themed cartoons I found.
To that end Microsoft announced a few partnerships today too including Check Point, Cisco, Fortinet and Imperva.
I checked out a few events on Feb 11th that took place for Today We Fight Back, and overall it was very quiet and peaceful – maybe even too quiet and peaceful.
On tour this summer, Orleans Avenue has spent a few sound checks jamming on riffs by industrial-rock band Ministry.
She was 66. Miss Vaughan, who had checked out of Cedars Sinai Hospital a few hours earlier, died at 9 20 p.m. Tuesday at her home in Hidden Hills, according to her attorney and manager, Harold Levy.
Yesterday, he said that at least a few more checks had come in.
