The phrase "a few stringent" is not correct in standard English usage.
The word "few" typically refers to a small number, while "stringent" describes something strict or demanding, which may not logically pair with "few."
Example: "The committee imposed a few stringent regulations on the new policy."
Alternatives: "a couple of strict" or "some rigorous".
But he added that few stringent sanctions remained, beyond a ban on air travel in and out of the country.
The majority of states have no requirements other than a Concealed Handgun License, a few have very stringent training requirements and the rest have appallingly low training requirements that meet no professionally recognized minimum training standards.
In a patient with type 2 diabetes, for example, improved or normal glycemia that occurs after only a few days of a stringent diet should certainly not be considered remission.
Your Oct. 6 editorial "Cover-Up on Clean Air" does not mention a few key facts about the increasingly stringent air quality requirements faced by electric power companies.
We identified a few loci for each phenotype using stringent significance thresholds based on permutation.
Owing to stringent security requirements, only a few of these systems are authorized by Congress, and many members use one called Intranet Quorum, made by Leidos, a Virginia-based defense contractor and technology company.
In Great Britain, more than nine million people drink "more than they are supposed to," and that figure will have gone up dramatically since the government issued new stringent alcohol consumption guidelines a few weeks ago.
However, a few BDTPs were not detected, possibly due to stringent tissue-specific expression patterns that did not include the embryo.
These programs are several orders of magnitude times faster than BLAST, but they can only identify very stringent similarities that tolerate only a few mismatches and gaps.
