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by few researchers

112,300 results on the web

by a few researchers

1264,000 results on the web

More popular!

My partner's on a beekeeping message board with a few of their researchers.
The by
Judge opportunity by how few other students and researchers are on hand.
But in the past few months, researchers have also isolated several new broadly neutralizing antibodies from the blood of an HIV infected individual.
No researchers means no research, few researchers means little research, and many researchers means a great deal of research.
All speakers in this Parliament are entitled to speak in their mother tongue whether that language is spoken by many or by few.
product of an energy source, used by few species because it is harmful to living tissue.
This opinion seems to be shared by few in Parliament.

It doesn't look like this phrase is very popular! The search could not find any examples on the internet.