The phrase "a few rates" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a small number of rates, such as prices, interest rates, or statistics.
Example: "After reviewing a few rates from different providers, I decided to go with the one that offered the best value."
Alternatives: "several rates" or "a handful of rates".
With this in mind, a few rating tools have emerged in recent years that attempt to capture country-specific nuances.
Recent improvements in experimental techniques and advances in our understanding of pore-scale heterogeneity demonstrate that two (or even a few) rate coefficients are insufficient in many cases.
In January 2001, when the U.S. Federal Reserve began a series of short-term rate reductions, this column cited a few "rate-cut winners," among them consumer stocks, regional banks and home builders.
But a few rate hikes over the next year will be enough to trigger a reversal in credit growth, because the level of private debt is substantially higher than it was when the last big boom began in the mid-1990s.
For other situations where there is change of only a few, rate-controlling genes, such approaches may not be as informative.
NER is a complex process involving at least 17 different proteins; however, upregulation of only a few rate limiting components of the NER system is necessary to increase a cell's capacity for NER [ 180].
In other words, the ECF model is highly applicable to the metabolic models whose flux distribution would be determined by the effects of multiple enzyme activities rather than by a few rate-limiting reactions.
For total unemployment, most peripheral countries approximately doubled their rates, and for a few the rates tripled.
SBMLsqueezer covers all special cases of this type of equation defined in the SBO besides a few irreversible rates for discrete simulation.
Pulling on the monetary string by tightening credit can be effective, but try pushing on that string with a few small rate cuts, or even big rate cuts.
