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the few

noun as in minority

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In the first of those cases, a trial judge determined that Melissa Lucio, one of the few women on death row in the United States, is, despite her 2008 conviction of murder in the death of her 2-year-old daughter, “actually innocent.”

From Slate

When Johnson rose from relative obscurity to the Speaker position, one of the few pieces of information that journalists dug up was that he had been in a documentary about "purity balls" in 2015.

From Salon

The strike was notable because it was the first attack in Beirut in about a month, but also because it was one of the few to target a senior Hezbollah official with no military role.

In the afternoon, a strike on a building in the densely populated Ras al-Nabaa neighbourhood killed Mohammed Afif, who acted as the Hezbollah spokesman and was one of the few remaining public faces of the group.

From BBC

Butler and Bass spoke about their shared experience of being among the few Black women to serve in Congress.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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