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The phrase "a single or few" is not correct in standard written English.
It can be used when referring to a quantity that is either one or a small number of items.
Example: "The survey revealed that a single or few participants preferred the new design over the old one."
Alternatives: "one or a couple" or "one or a small number".
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A general appraisal of cultural complexity reveals a trend from a single or few early cultural phases of uniform composition covering the entire New World, to the extremely diversified cultures of the last two millennia of the prehistoric period.
Southern blot analysis suggested that Mi-ser1 is encoded by a single or few gene copies.
Graphene is two-dimensional, with a single or few layers of carbon atoms in a honeycomb structure [13 15].
In those analyses the full containment building is usually modeled with a single or few computational cells.
Although we did perform a comprehensive search, we acknowledge it is possible to miss a single or few RCT, especially non-English RCT.
Those charged with regulating economic activity also face problems created by monopolies and oligopolies: the concentration of commerce in a single or few firms (Rhoades 1993).
- modulators produce a single, or few bits output resulting in hardware saving and thus making them suitable for implementation in very large scale integration (VLSI) circuits.
Phylogeny inference has moved in recent years from the analysis of a single or few proteins to that of whole proteomes.
The turbulence driven and highly nonlinear profiles of momentum, air temperature, and vapor densities require complex resistance expressions applied to simple gradients deduced from a single or few height measurements.
Hence, in cancer therapy, drugs with a single or few targets can be doomed to failure, since resistances are more easily to arise than if pressure is exerted on more targets [12].
2D nanomaterials, due to being only a single, or few atoms thick, are mechanically resistant to in-plane stretching, but can easily be induced to deform out of the 2D plane due to their small bending modulus [35, 36].
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