The phrase "a group of few" is not correct in standard English usage.
It is typically used incorrectly as it suggests a contradiction; "few" implies a small number, making "a group" redundant.
Example: "A group of few people attended the meeting."
Alternatives: "a small group" or "a handful of".
Until 2006, Taranto Sociale, a group of few environmentalists, repeatedly denounced the increasing pollution of local ecosystems produced by the steel plant.
In this work, I tested the premise that the distribution of a group of few common bird species can be used to predict bird species hotspots in Central Italy.
These ensembles exhibit a wide range of spatial and temporal scales of internal motions; localized protein motions involving bond vibrations and fluctuations within a group of few atoms are fast (femtosecond-picosecond time-scale) where as large-scale concerted, collective fluctuations involving sub-domains or entire protein are typically slow (millisecond time-scale and beyond) [1] [3].
Every year or two, FedEx grants options to its executives, a group of fewer than 1,000 people.
If you are in a group of fewer than four, there is a daily surcharge of $40 each for one person, $30 for two people and $25 for three people.
The origins of Al Qaeda can be found in a group of fewer than 300 Islamic extremists, the original jihadists, who swore allegiance to their sheikh, Osama bin Laden, one or two decades ago.
"We could end up in five years with 190 categories," he said, noting that some Grammy winners emerge from a pool of 700 records, while others compete in a group of fewer than 40.
At a recent event in Jersey City, near a site contaminated by chromium, a cancer-causing agent, Mr. Vas stood before a group of fewer than 12 in the parking lot of a shuttered bowling alley, and accepted the endorsement from the Sierra Club.
As recounted in "Suddenly, Tomorrow Came: A History of the Johnson Space Center," Mr. Gilruth gathered a group of fewer than 10 engineers and, working night and day, came up with all the basic principles of what would become Project Mercury, the first American human spaceflight program, begun in 1959.
The administration's problems are our problems, and vice-versa, because our administrators are our teachers and our friends, and our 'culture of rape' encompasses a group of fewer than 2,000 people, of which we are all members.
