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The phrase "a few visiting" is not correct in standard written English as it lacks a noun to complete the thought.
It could be used in a context where you are referring to a few people who are visiting, but it needs to be rephrased for clarity.
Example: "I have a few visiting friends this weekend."
Alternatives: "a few guests" or "a few people visiting".
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The silence, wretchedly broken by a few visiting West Brom fans, gave way to the collective roar of a packed house of more than 20,000 home supporters.
Today, Gjoa Haven (the name has been Anglicized) is a hamlet of about twelve hundred Inuit and a few visiting government and medical workers from the Canadian mainland.
When he is hospitalized with a stroke, his second wife is constantly by his side, but Belinda's mother, no legal kin, has a few visiting rights.
He regarded poetry as a full-time occupation and, save for a few visiting university lectureships, never had anything resembling a full-time job.
And I remembered Roberto Clemente inviting a few visiting reporters into the tiny training room in San Juan, P.R., in 1967 before a Yankees-Pirates exhibition while his trainer friend zapped his aching back with a Buck Rogers ray gun.
Ideas I had left over from before: "Persephone's Mom," about a runaway teenager; "Jacob and the Angel," about that particular wrestling match from The Bible; "The Ballad of Lynndie England," although a quick Wikipedia read shows me that there have been a few visiting that subject before me; "The Children in the Trees," about the tsunami of several years ago.
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A few visited a herbal practitioner to obtain their herbal medicines (see Table 1).
And a few visits are needed.
Save for a few visits home, he never returned.
For an office or residence, a few visits may be sufficient.
Despite the rule, Ms. Macdonald has become smitten after just a few visits.
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