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Anonymous Posted 13 years ago
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Few or a few

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We had (few/a few) problems finding seats in the railroad cars. We never had to stand up.
  

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We had few problems finding seats in the railroad cars. We never had to stand up. Compare with this: We had no problems finding seats in the railroad cars.

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  • We had few problems finding seats in the railroad cars.
  • We never had to stand up.
  • Compare with this: We had no problems finding seats in the railroad cars.
  • We never had to stand up.
  • We had a few problems finding seats in the railroad cars.
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We had few problems finding seats in the railroad cars. We never had to stand up.

Compare with this:
We had no problems finding seats in the railroad cars. We never had to stand up.

We had a few problems finding seats in the railroad cars. We never had to stand up. Sometimes we could not sit together, and sometimes one of us had to stand.
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