For me, instictively, a couple is two, a few is five, and several is seven. -ish. But I'm amazed there are people who don't know that "a couple" literally means "two". That's the key difference between "a couple" and the other two.
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A couple is two. Seems to me that a "few" would be three to six or seven, and several would be six to 11. After that you have a dozen, 13 or more is a lot, and a score is 20. "Many" is probably more than two dozen. These...
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A couple is literally two, although it is often misused to indicate "several." Several is more than two with no defined upper limit, although it connotes a relatively small amount, whatever that might be in context. If that seems ...
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What are the differences between few couple many plenty various and several - trivia question /questions answer / answers ... Few- not many but more than one; ... ; What is the difference between many and plenty? ; Of the several hundred popes who held power in the last couple millenia, how many were canonized?; If you shake...
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aisay nahi lagta jeisay clad women and the guy are taking classes from the couple ;p ... Difference b/w the both pics show that they got some effect :p...
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Few clouds ... » Difference between a muslim couple and a non muslim coupl ... The way Muslim couple is looking at non-muslim "Wish that was me". ...
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Few is used in the same way as many, with count nouns. ... Food Few foods are as rich as ice cream. Countable meaning ... A few and a few of the focus on the number of students, implying that some students did something (positive meaning). Few and few of the focus on the low percentage of students who did something...
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You see my dear that to deside how good a marriges is depends upon how much understanding exists between the couple, I think you will agree to this. At a young age ... Now about the difference in AGE, ... The female tends to look much older than the man after a few years of marriage,hence a female younger than the male is prefered...
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Subject: How Much of an Age Difference Should There Be Between a couple ... I know I might have the maturity for someone a few years older then me, but some age differences are just too dramatic. Some age gaps are smaller than others as far as levels of maturity. Eg: 18 and 23 are quite different, where-as 28 and 33 are not.
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. . And, this is a few years after marriage. Middle-Eastern married couple, few years after marriage, no longer one man with gazillion wives. European couple is one man and one woman, though the woman or man may not be same as the one at marriage time.
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