How many is a few?

Phew!

Probably none I would guess Ana

How many is too few to mention?

And what about 'too few'?

How many is a good few ?

and could you have a bad few or a little few?

No, I haven't had more than three already this morning (my ungrammatical post above)

It's is more than a two or three large glasses of wine Ana

About seven days is, about a week. A definite seven days wasn't mentioned anno

How many is a few too many?

Repeated is more than once or twice

I've always thought of 'a few' as three or four. Seven days is not 'about a week' - it is a week! I'd say a 'moment' is what you make it. People often say, 'wait a second' when they couldn't possibly do whatever it might be in so short a time.

I agree too that a few, in terms of days, is 3 or 4. I can't see why it would be an absolute number, e.g. 3, as one poster has said, because why on earth would the term have come about? That is manifestly absurd. A few, several, some, a goodly number, quite a number, quite a few... they're all ways of describing an unknown quantity.
Someone told me many years ago that originally a 'moment' was one and a half minutes, and not the unspecified period of time it implies today.
I've only just remembered this and googled it. I came up with this fascinating wiki article

You have me worried now Elegran !! I'm going to stay with a friend tomorrow for 6 days. Hope I don't start stinking.
I agree that a few is 3 or 4.

Never enough

What if it's chips you're talking about, though?

Three or four is what I think of as a few.One is just one, a couple is two, so it must mean between three and six otherwise it would be a week.

I'd have said 3 or 4.

Elegran oops.... we head off tomorrow to Carlisle for a week with our son, dil and 3 month old dgs. A few more that your recommended 3 days !!

3 or 4. 2 is a couple and 5 several. A week is a week.

What is that saying again? "Guests and fish stink after three days"

Re relatives roseq. I would say 3 days maintain good relations

If a few is three or four, how many is 'quite a few'?

Although I suppose if you said that the political rally was only attended by 'a few' it could mean 20 instead of hundreds

I'd have thought that a few days could be counted on one hand, several on two hands, and "a lot" would be more than that.

I believe a tribe was once discovered which had only three number words - one, two and many.

I would have called it a week, too!

Four days is a maximum I would have thought, depending on how you get on with the relative

The dictionary definition of 'several' is more than two but not very many, but that sounds more like my definition of 'a few'!

'Several', to me, indicates quite a lot - it's obviously a personal thing!