The phrase "and a few commodity" is not correct in written English.
It seems to be an incomplete expression, possibly intended to refer to "a few commodities" instead.
Example: "The market offers a variety of products, including electronics, clothing, and a few commodities that are essential for daily living."
Alternatives: "and a few goods" or "and several products".
Nuclear capability and a few commodities, however strategic, does not build roads, it does not turn scientific results into world class products, it will not make the country competitive in the global market place and does not increase the longevity of its people.
For the past 35 years, U.S. farm policy has incentivized the production of a few commodity crops (like corn and soybeans), and the calories that come from them.
I can't ignore who is actually paying the price for this and I don't like the fact that a few commodity traders make billions while the people in the producing countries remain bitterly poor".
It's gone because the grass was overturned and the bison were chased off the land and the riot of biodiversity that had evolved over 10,000 years was replaced by a few commodity crops to feed us.
Fitbit's marketing personnel were perhaps a bit too optimistic in their copywriting, but the idea that a wristband sensor ought to discern reality in thoroughly unpredictable environments with only a few commodity sensors is ludicrous.
Bad US Policy Boosts Climate Change on US Megafarms, says policy expert Mark Hertgaard at the New York Times, by skewing subsidies towards a few commodity crops that use vast amounts of fossil fuel.
The economies of the region are marked by dependence on the export of a few commodities, commonly agricultural, and consequently are extremely vulnerable to external economic events.
There were only a few commodities where applied and bound rates were approximately equal.
Clear-cut gains exist only for a few commodities, such as cotton and sugar, which are not consumed in large quantities by poor households.
While China's exports to the region span a wide range of manufactured goods, its imports are highly concentrated in a few commodities (see chart 2).
