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Originally Posted by juiceme View Post
How come? it's still roughly 2.5 weeks of september left... that qualifies well for "a few weeks", doesn't it?
Nope. At least not in colloquial British English, where generally the terms are seen as:

One: 1
A couple: 2
A few: 3 or more, generally no more than about 5

But I was being tongue-in-cheek in any case.
 

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