Description

This is extremely common among Arabic speakers no matter how good their English is, but I'm pretty sure others make it too.

"Few" has the implication of "hardly any", insufficient, not enough, so tends negative.
"A few" on the other hand tends positive as in "better than nothing" or "not a lot but probably enough".

Resources

• https://www.grammarly.com/blog/commonly-confused-words/few-a-few/
• https://www.britannica.com/dictionary/eb/qa/The-Difference-Between-Few-and-A-Few-

Examples

• A teacher is in the process of generating few reports based ...
• After few minutes all kube-system pods begin crashing.
• Tomcat 9.0 server stop few minutes after start without any ...
• Fix few typos
  This is a pretty good example as to a native English speaker it looks like an instruction to fix some typos but not to fix all of them.
• After few seconds window turns white · Issue #11099
• It's great and now I am sharing few scripts.
  Implies that previous more scripts were shared.
• Few minutes after I posted this I found that unless I set the below explicitly in settings:
• can you tell me few specific problems with using rust for systems programming?

Potential False Positives

I imagine it will be quite difficult to design heuristics to detect this.