(superl.) Not many; small, limited, or confined in number; -- indicating a small portion of units or individuals constituing a whole; often, by ellipsis of a noun, a few people.
Example Sentences:
Tew
Definition:
(v.) To prepare by beating or working, as leather or hemp; to taw.
(v.) Hence, to beat; to scourge; also, to pull about; to maul; to tease; to vex.
(v. i.) To work hard; to strive; to fuse.
(v. t.) To tow along, as a vessel.
(n.) A rope or chain for towing a boat; also, a cord; a string.
Example Sentences:
(1) Other web youth sensations Alex Tew In 2005 Tew, 21, from Swindon, was looking for a way to pay his student loan from the University of Nottingham.
(2) Transepidermal water (TEW) loss of normal vulvar and flexor forearm skin was measured in 12 subjects.
(3) These experiments allow comparison of the properties of TEW lysozyme with those of the hen egg white (HEW) enzyme reported previously (Banerjee, S. K., Holler, E., Hess, G. P., and Rupley, J.
(4) Organizations take discipline – and he doesn’t strike me as the most disciplined candidate Paul Tewes, former Iowa state director for Barack Obama “From an outside point of view, he does seem to have a fairly passionate medium-sized following,” Tewes said of Trump’s support.
(5) Only two (one at 24 hours and one at 72 hours) of the dogs shocked with TEW showed microscopic foci of necrosis.
(6) "Species loss is not inevitable; we can do something about it," added Tew.
(7) The pH dependence of the binding of (GlcNAc)3 and higher oligomers to TEW lysozyme is like that for the binding of beta-methyl-N-acetylglucosaminide to TEW lysozyme.
(8) He definitely has stirred up the base and a very strong reflection of the American people are feeling.” Tewes, reflecting on his time working for Obama, insisted it was important to harness the natural instincts of voters and volunteers: “You don’t want to discourage people doing things on their own – that’s awesome.” So far, Trump campaign officials say they see no signs of disengagement from early volunteers and remain confident in their non-traditional model.
(9) The magnitude of the low pH difference spectrum is enhanced by binding of saccharide for HEW and Oxa-62-lysozymes but not for TEW lysozyme.
(10) The author describes the clinical outcome 10 years after unicompartmental knee arthroplasty according to a knee assessment system, developed by Tew and Waugh, that includes a detailed operational identification of the clinical examination.
(11) One had a damped sine wave (DSW), and the other a truncated exponential waveform (TEW).
(12) Tom Tew, Natural England's chief scientist, called for a "step change" in conservation, including more "targeted" schemes to protect individual species, better safeguarding of protected areas and better management of land outside the protected areas, especially farmland.
(13) Depsite subcutaneous administration of atropine in seven subjects to eliminate eccrine sweating, no alteration in the elevated TEW loss was found.
(14) Difference spectra associated with changes in pH and with binding of saccharides have been recorded for hen egg white (HEW) lysozyme, turkey egg white (TEW) lysozyme, and for the derivatives of the hen protein in which Tre-62 or Trp-108 had been oxidized specifically to oxindolealanine to give the Oxa-62 or Oxa-108-proteins.
(15) Identical pH difference spectra were obtained for HEW, TEW, and Oxa-62-lysozymes.
(16) Regeneration of skin damage was accompanied by a decrease of TEW values.
(17) The results on the subtests of the HAWIK-R were grouped by the categories recommended by Titze and Tewes.
(18) Tom Tew, the bank's chief executive told my colleague Damian Carrington in September: "I think FoE and others completely misunderstand how biodiversity offsetting works.
(19) Assessment was both clinical and radiological, using a modification of the British Orthopaedic Association knee function assessment chart, and analysis was by the survivorship method as advocated by Tew and Waugh.
(20) You have to make sure that people who are coming are also being communicated with afterwards, and I can’t tell if he’s doing it or not,” Tewes said.