The phrase "a few institutes" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a small number of institutes, typically in an academic or organizational context.
Example: "There are a few institutes in the city that specialize in environmental research."
Alternatives: "several institutes" or "a handful of institutes".
Although the study of our ageing society is a new science, with just a few institutes set up in recent years in universities across the country, a consensus is already being forged: it isn't something we should be frightened of.
The numerical weather prediction (NWP) forecast of meteorological variables could be used as input to the PV model for PV power prediction, but numerical weather prediction methods are computationally expensive and only a few institutes have this facility.
However to date, this concept of a new academic discipline called futurology or futures science has only been implemented in the form of a few institutes at individual universities.
I've also been in discussion with a few other institutes, such as Leeds Met'st Innovation North school, so there's a growing call from academia for collaboration with industry.
Can India not help Pakistan set up a few such institutes?
Only a few research institutes dedicate research efforts to studying MCH inequities.
IRB was one of few institutes in Barcelona that was interested in hiring a statistician not just to help researchers crunch numbers, he says, but also to develop new techniques through original research -- a necessary condition for me to accept any position," Rossell says.
With little private funding going into research, currently few institutes or companies offer research posts in Italy.
"The major problem Portugal always had is that [there were] only very few institutes that were of international standards," says Silva-Santos.
The combination of a high-magnetic field lab with high-field NMR creates an extremely strong center for NMR research, and in fact, NSRIM is one of the few institutes worldwide for high-magnetic field studies.
In this regard, fine needle aspiration biopsy in the future may play a cardinal role for patients (those undergoing chemotherapy in particular), despite the fact that this procedure was performed at very few institutes until its nationwide approval in Japan in 2011.
