a fair few

The phrase "a fair few" is commonly used in British English to indicate a moderate to somewhat large number of items or instances.

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Definition

B2General

(informal, british)A moderate to somewhat large number of items or instances.

Example

  • We've got a fair few documents to process today.
  • There were a fair few people at the event.

Similar

Terms that have similar or relatively close meanings to "a fair few":

quite a fewa fewquite somea number ofa lotfair gofair enoughfair fucks