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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a few guards" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a small number of guards in a specific context, such as security or protection.
Example: "The castle was protected by a few guards stationed at the entrance."
Alternatives: "several guards" or "a handful of guards".
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But a few guards, reached by phone, agreed to speak.
Quite a few guards were out sick that day.
I also interviewed quite a few guards and consulted various documents in the archives.
A few guards waved their arms and screamed things in Arabic that I couldn't understand.
A few guards rebelled at the new orders and resigned in protest.
A few guards were present, but they spoke only among themselves.
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Beyond a stretch of rocks and a dirt road, there's a dense grove of olive trees, and beyond that a long, low building with a few guard towers: a prison.
(Gioia does take a few guarded stands: in his scene-setting emphasis on the black American work song over the West African griot song, and in his defense of Alan Lomax against recent blues scholars who claimed that Lomax had obscured the contributions of the black researchers he collaborated with in the 1940s).
A high wall, a fence and a few guard posts, surrounded the palace grounds.
Twenty or thirty barracks, some brick, some wood, an electric fence and a few guard towers.
But then a few women guards came over to assist.
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