The phrase "a few orders from" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to receiving or processing a small number of requests or purchases from a source, such as a customer or supplier.
Example: "We have received a few orders from our new client this week, and we are excited to start working on them."
Alternatives: "several requests from" or "a handful of orders from".
A few orders have come in from Germany, the U.S., and the U.K. as well — countries that have historically exported literature to Africa, instead of the other way around.
In all cases, we find a reduction of a few orders of magnitude of n going from K to (chi(K)).
The atmospheric depositions of 90Sr and 137Cs in 2013 observed at the MRI were a few orders of magnitude higher than those from 2005 to 2011 before the FDNPP accident.
Optimism in the latest turnaround plan melted away after a pre-Christmas profit warning blamed on fewer orders from supermarket customers and warehouse problems.
"Because of the subprime crisis in the U.S., the U.S. economy is not as big as in years before — a lot of Chinese textile companies are getting fewer and fewer orders from the U.S.," said Cao Xinyu, the deputy director of the China Chamber of Commerce for the Import and Export of Textiles.
Manufacturers in emerging markets are getting fewer orders from multinationals which are shocked by many suppliers' bankruptcy.
Weaker smartphone sales and fewer orders from data-centred companies such as Amazon and Google have led to a glut of memory chips and sent prices sliding.
Once they are established as preferred suppliers, the big equipment makers that lose out in consolidation are more likely to get fewer orders from the surviving customers than to be completely shut out of new business, according to industry analysts.
All was not well at navigation device-maker TomTom on Wednesday, as the company's first-quarter performance suffered from the double trouble of price cuts and fewer orders from retailers.
Its creators expected to receive no more than a few thousand orders from customers.
