#2 (permalink) Sat Oct 29, 2011 15:46 pm Quite a few employees? |
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That's because of the 'quite a' part of the sentence.
Without it, 'numerous' would work: Numerous (a number of) employees are not happy...
Once you add 'quite a' then we cannot say 'numerous' because 'numerous' stands for 'a number of', so it would be saying Quite a a number of... which doesn't make sense.
Quite a few... A number of... Numerous... would all work as sentence starters here, and they all mean more or less the same, but you have to change the whole phrase, not just a part of it. _________________ "Inside every old person is a young person wondering what happened."
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