>> First, no one bought a iPad Mini "a few years ago" because the first one was sold in October 2012.
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> Depends on how you define "few". Some areas of the country tend to use "few" to mean "couple". Here's something I found on the internet. :-)
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> "While many people would agree that "few" means three or more, the actual dictionary definition of "few" is, "not many but more than one." So, a "few" cannot be one, but it can be as low as two. This surprises a lot of people."
But the great majority of English-speaking Americans would use the term "a couple" when they meant "2".
I have found over the decades that dictionaries will tell you a lot of things that do not match normal usage or common practice…
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