Question

The bus was only ___ minutes late. Fill ( few or a few)

Answer 1

The bus was only a few minutes late

Answer 2

The bus was only a few minutes late.

• When we wish to discuss about the quantity of anything, we use the word 'few'. We usually use it when we're talking about a little amount of something.
• Consider the following scenario: Each year, only few members of the family return to their hometown.
• In the previous sentence, we used the term few to emphasize that just one or two members of the family leave town, while the others remain. However, if we added "a" to few, we'd get a different statement:

• For example, every year, a few members of the family leave their hometown.