The phrase "a few tandem" is not correct in English.
Did you mean "a few tandems"? If this is the case, you can use it when referring to multiple tandem bicycles or situations involving pairs working together.
Example: "We rented a few tandems for our cycling trip along the coast."
Alternatives: "a couple of tandems" or "several tandems".
For a final test run before the pair formally committed to racing together, the pair simply had a few tandem sprints around the track.
An important feature of gene-family evolution highlighted in this study is that, in Drosophila, gene turnover and/or gene conversion are primarily concentrated in a few tandem arrays of CPR genes.
The C. elegans genome contains only a few tandem repeats (Hillier et al. 2007).
The recently reported whole-genome duplication event was absent and only a few tandem and segmental duplications have been shown to exist in the cucumber genome [ 5].
The results indicated that olive genome structure is peculiar among plant genomes, with a very large percentage of satellite DNA, related to a few tandem repeat families.
We also found a few tandem duplications: 9 in C. watsonii WH8501 and 5 in G. violaceus PCC7421, 5 in Nostoc sp. PCC6803, 2 in N. punctiforme PCC73102, 2 in A. variabilis ATCC 29413, 2 in Synechocystis sp. PCC6803, 2 in T. thermophilus HB27, 1 in T. erythraeum IMS101 and 1 in M. magnetotatcticum MS-1.
This is not the case for the genome of M. infernorum V4 as only a few short tandem and larger repeats were found (Additional file 1: Figures S7 and S8).
It was also found that there were few tandem duplicates in these recent duplicates, implying that the duplications might have resulted from large-scale chromosome reconstruction.
However, seven pairs were genetically linked to each other on their corresponding chromosomal locations, which indicated that there were very few tandem duplications among the WRKY III genes.
No large gene clusters or hot spots for B. rapa MADS-box genes were identified, possibly due to the very few tandem duplications.
A few dozen tandems were identified in the Nakaseomyces genomes (HD, TG and CF, ms in preparation).
