The phrase "a few settlements" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a small number of settlements, typically in discussions about geography, history, or social issues.
Example: "The archaeologists discovered a few settlements that date back to ancient times."
Alternatives: "several settlements" or "a handful of settlements".
The newspaper paid a few settlements, parliamentary committees held hearings and Prime Minister David Cameron's communications director, Andy Coulson, a former editor of News of the World, resigned.
However, their intention was less territorial occupation and more establishing a de facto overlordship which allowed them to establish commercial networks as well as a few settlements.
Although stone tools have been found at many archaeological sites, little is known about the UAE's early inhabitants as only a few settlements have been found.
Current board member Lance Maerov said he'd been told about a few settlements but "assumed they were used to cover up consensual affairs," the Times reports.
By now the Ottomans had essentially won the war; Byzantium was reduced to a few settlements other than Constantinople and was forced to recognize its vassal status to the Ottoman Sultan.
Oh, sure, there have been a few settlements, but not a single individual Wall Street banker has been held accountable and even the settlements look like nothing more than sweetheart deals.
A few settlement houses, however, because of the great number of addicts who come to them seeking help, have set up their own outpatient narco tics clinics.
The more densely populated southwest is pockmarked with pine forests, beaches and coves, while the northeast is a windswept region with few settlements, high cliffs and a barren look.
Mr Sharon has also hinted that he may evacuate a few Jewish settlements.
And aside from a few larger settlements, not much blame for the economic crisis has been attached to the industry and even less to the people in it.
