How many years is a few years?

This is an age-related question. To a twenty-year-old, a few years would be about 3. To an eighty-year-old, a few years could be 20 or more.

How long are couple months?

Speaking precisely, “every couple of months” does mean “every two months”. However, some people are a little looser with the meaning of “couple”, which really should mean “two”. Your speaker might well have meant “every few months” or “every two or three months”.

Is a few 3?

While many would agree that few means three or more, the dictionary definition is, “not many but more than one.” So, a few cannot be one, but it can be as low as two.

Is couple more than few?

Couple is used when referring to two things, as in “a couple of days ago,” whereas few and several are less specific. Few means “not many but some,” as in “The train leaves in a few minutes,” and several denotes more than the words couple and few do but implies lesser than the word many does.

How long is a couple of minutes?

Literally speaking a couple of minutes is 2 minutes, and few minutes is anything more than one minute. (Back in a minute means one minute to be exact!). So “a minute” < “couple of minutes” <= “few minutes”. Hence we can say that few minutes will mostly be more than a few minutes!

What is a couple of years?

a couple of years is around two years, give or take a bit, but even though people use couple in much the same way as they would a handful or a few, most folks see a couple as meaning two, specifically.

Is it a couple years ago or a couple of years ago?

In formal and informal English, a couple of can be used with a plural noun, or with an adjective + plural noun, as in these examples: a couple of times (= approximately two times) a couple of years ago (= approximately two years ago)

How long is a couple of weeks?

The court had to determine the definition of “a couple of weeks.” NFC argued that “a couple” is two and each week has seven days, so “a couple of weeks” means exactly 14 days.

Does some mean 4?

Some said it meant three or four. Or maybe more. The answer is that there is no hard-and-fast answer. What “a few” means to me might be different than what “a few” means to you.