The phrase "a few quantities" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a small number of measurable amounts or values in various contexts, such as mathematics, science, or everyday situations.
Example: "In the experiment, we measured a few quantities to determine the overall effect of the variable."
Alternatives: "several amounts" or "a small number of values."
Unfortunately, it is difficult to study and little is known about it beyond a few quantities that are protected by supersymmetry.
We compute the parent offspring covariance in disease, WD, by summing over all possible ways that parent and offspring can both be diseased and then subtracting off the square of the disease prevalence K. Before we write out the full equation for covariance, we define a few quantities to make notation simpler.
If we wish to normalize using data from the same sample hybridized from multiple quantities of starting RNA, then clearly we must stratify samples into a few starting quantities.
I don't care if they're actors or not.' " There are a few known quantities among the characters Mr. Linklater has recruited, including Ms. Delpy and Mr. Hawke, who reprise their roles from "Before Sunrise," and Timothy (Speed) Levitch, the tour bus conductor who became a celebrity with the 1998 documentary "The Cruise".
The first comprehensive survey of Afghanistan's underground treasures found gold, coppper, cobalt and lithium, to name a few, in quantities which have the world's industrial powers drooling in anticipation.
Let us start describing our method by defining a few basic quantities.
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.09123.006 Although the statistics of natural images are complicated, the mean squared error between the HRC's output and the velocity of motion depends only on a few statistical quantities.
Few quantity of each portion was stirred with 5 mL of 1% aqueous HCl on water bath and then filtered.
Few quantity of the each portion was dissolved in water and filtered; to this 2 mL of the 10% aqueous sodium hydroxide was later added to produce a yellow colouration.
Cecil newcomer Native Ruler comes here with a tall reputation, but inexperience could get him beaten and he is best watched against a few other unknown quantities.
Only a few occur in quantities large enough for sustained exploitation, notably iron in Pennsylvania's Blue Ridge and Piedmont and the famous granites, marbles, and slates of northern New England.
