Troy introduced me to a few people, and those people introduced me to a few people.
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And we think of any kind of problem or phenomenon as naturally following the distribution where there's a few people at one end who have no problem, a few people at the other who have, you know, a kind of little bit of a problem, and then there's a big broad middle and the curve goes up.
The problem: it is easy to do a small study in a few animals or a few people, and reach some optimistic conclusion that can be spun into good marketing copy.
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Mr Howkins said Haatchi's story "brings a few tears to a few people" when his son tells it to strangers while out dog-walking.
And we have a few notable people -- many notable people, but a few that I will recognize specifically.
Because we've got a choice: We can settle for a country where a few people do really, really well, and everybody else struggles to get by.
We can either settle for a country where a few people are doing very well and everybody else is having to just struggle to get by, or we can build an economy where everybody gets a fair shot, and everybody is doing their fair share, and everybody is taking responsibility, and everybody is playing by the same set of rules.
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And we've got a choice right now: We can either settle for a country where a few people do really well, and everybody else is struggling, or we can restore an economy where everybody gets a fair shot, and everybody does their fair share, and everybody plays by the same set of rules, from Washington to Wall Street to Main Street.
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The approach worked so well that Steinhardt sent an e-mail to a few dozen friends: "If you think this is a good thing, forward it to a few people, " it said.
Yet, in a few weeks, very few people will give it a second thought.
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We shouldn't blame an entire group of people for the horrible acts of a few people who have distorted a great religion.
Many people, not just a few sick people, get old, have some decline in health and die from something.
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And, despite the tone of much of the coverage, this is not a medicine only taken by a few people.
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As a result, more than a few people who have built software for the iPad were among the hundreds of customers who lined up to buy an iPad in Palo Alto, California Saturday.
Before you deliver a message, whether it is to a large audience or just a few people, think through the strategy of how to make what you talking about a reality, and how you will get people excited about doing that.
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"Where a road or footpath meets the railway there will always be a risk - tragically, for a few people every year, this results in injury or loss of life, " said Tracey Young, Network Rail's community safety manager for Wales.
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This procedures requires a series of treatments using a fairly expensive piece of equipment to produce results that are of enormous value to a few people with extensive birthmarks, and of smaller value to many other people with smaller birthmarks.
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"The 90%" who supposedly support gun background checks is an even more evanescent construct--the result of a poll, which presumably questioned a few hundred randomly called people, few of whom likely had thought deeply about the subject.
And I fervently hope, that as the years go on, people stop cherry-picking science to bolster their belief that only a few people are.
When the idea of a directly elected commissioner was explained, a few people thought it sounded positive.
This should be sufficient to run a business that could be operated by a few people using a small computer system.
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Apple delivers a product that I, and more than a few people, like.
So far the system -- which uses a parent-set sunrise and moonset calculator, and also features a "Treasure Chest Music Selector" to pleasantly awaken your own little treasures -- doesn't seem to be commercially available, which is kind of a shame, because we know more than a few people who would love to trick their tiny terrors into bedtime at five o'clock on the daily.
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So what were these people calling for a few weeks ago when people were trying to figure out if there would be QE3 or not?
Some people object to an opt-out system on the basis that there will inevitably be a few people who fail to opt out and fail to inform their family of their wishes, even though they would not wish their organs to be used to help others - and these people may have their organs taken without consent.
Everyone in America has been promised affordable health insurance and the only people who are going to suffer are a few rich people (the top 1%).
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Some of the back-and-forth with the folks who were pro the public option or the Medicare extension seems to have cooled off a little bit, but there's still a few people who have some complaints.
Cumbria Police said a reception centre had opened at Millom High School for a few people who have been stranded in their cars in the local area.
Hopefully I've surprised a few people and I feel I've got a good few years left in me.
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