Many lost their jobs, too, and not a few of them are still out of work.
Massoud Barzani - maybe, you know, a few hundred Turkish troops went in, not a few hundred thousand.
If a pencil and notepad are up for disintermediation, why not a few folks on Sand Hill Road?
The tone of accusations against Wen has Chinese-Americans - and not a few other sorts of Americans - concerned.
Yet when these men earn so many millions, the buck should stop at the top, not a few rungs down.
And not a few Asians - Filipinos included - can quite rightfully ask what kind of liberation the region has achieved.
So there's not a few hundred horses being slaughtered in Ireland every year now - there's tens of thousands of them.
Now this is not a few barons deciding to contribute to the party, like a few rich people contribute to the Tories.
The true cost to the country is not a few bad debts but a reduction in long-term investment plans as confidence wanes.
It would be surprising if there were not a few inflationary pressures.
Along the way, the front office held a fire sale that sent the highest-priced talent packing and not a few fans following suit.
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For years, media leaders, editors and not a few reporters tried to ignore the coming digital storm, fiddling while technology transformed their world.
Scores of Indian words thus today lard the English of the sub-continent (and not a few khaki or dinghy, for instance the English of Britain).
But not a few jaws dropped this week with the results of a Quinnipiac Poll that showed Obama with just a 3-point lead: 48-45.
That is why market watchers and not a few German officials were paying very close attention to President Hollande's big press conference last Tuesday.
As eight years of war engulfed the continent, not a few of the rebels saw that the Revolution was a spiritual enterprise that would never really end.
"It was not a few bad apples going astray, decisions were taken at a very high level for interrogations to be carried out like this, " he said.
In fact, I had had a similar problem not a few weeks before where our server refused to load Windows after downloading and installing an update overnight.
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Democrats and not a few Republicans see him as in over his head, a Bush loyalist who is heading the DOJ simply because he is a Bush loyalist.
In the years since the Bell Rocket Belt, many have pursued the goal of a practical, wearable flying device, and not a few have set their pants on fire.
Not a few e-mails have suggested that if there was any year tailor-made for a Democratic victory, it's 2008, but if any party can fritter away potential success, it's the Democrats.
When I was a prison doctor, not a few prisoners would demand tranquillizers from me, claiming to be so agitated that they would soon kill someone if they were not calmed down.
Not a few people in legal and political circles believe the death penalty is out of step with the times, especially in a country with a democracy as robust as South Korea's.
Many young Americans (and not a few older ones) who find Obama attractive have a hard time connecting the dots and comprehending just how disastrous his policies have been for young Americans.
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Madonna grew up in the shanty area of Shanghai's Zhabei District, and wanted to be an artist from when she was young (and as a result took not a few artists as lovers).
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The preferred mode in Europe is to build not a few hugely expensive incineration behemoths but a larger number of smaller, community-based utilities that burn trash to provide electricity and heat through underground conduits.
But as the Omidyars drove their Volkswagen Cabriolet back to their home, furnished with budget brands from a Target store, they felt only more confused--like not a few of the accidental billionaires in the Valley.
But it has been thirty-six years of ever-present fear and not a few physical problems, along with an increasing sense of outrage, as the likely cause of my trauma has gradually been revealed to me.
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