The phrase "a few masses" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a small number of mass events, gatherings, or quantities in a scientific context.
Example: "The researchers conducted a study on a few masses of different materials to compare their properties."
Alternatives: "several masses" or "a handful of masses".
A group of Roman Catholics on Long Island is criticizing their bishop for allowing a few Masses to be celebrated by a former high church official who was suspended from the ministry because of child-molestation complaints.
Analytical and numerical results are presented for cases involving a few masses, and some generalizations are made for systems with an arbitrary number of masses.
After attending a few masses and befriending a few Catholics, you will find this to be an unfair characterization.
The Grolier show includes a few mass-produced photos from magazines.
He is not, it seems, about to allow a few mass-murderers to destroy all that.
It includes 8 masses (e.g., The Western Wind), a few mass movements, 3 Magnificats, a Te Deum, and 28 motets.
For most elements, a change of one or of a few mass units is such a small percentage of the total mass that the chemical differences between isotopes are negligible.
Such knowledge makes this documentary gently gripping, as Chris Beardshaw celebrates the myriad varieties of British apple invented by Victorian horticulturalists, and laments how they've been usurped by a few mass-produced brands.
Even the official French marketing agency, Anivin, announced last week that the future for such wine may be in a few, mass-produced, reliable brands, not in the preservation of hundreds of relatively unknown châteaux names.
In this universe of proliferating choice, demand is said to be shifting from a few mass products (at the head of the distribution curve) towards a great many niche interests (at the tail end), as argued by Chris Anderson in "The Long Tail .It turns out, however, that despite the availability of all the extra stuff the hits are as important as ever.
