C. Choose the right word.

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1. I had little/a little time to spare, so I browsed round a bookshop.

2. Help yourself to a biscuit. There are few/a few left in the tin.

3. My days are so busy that I have little/a little time for relaxation.

4. She is exceptionally generous. Few/a few people give more money to charity than she does.

5. There is little/a little butter left, but not much.

6. He keeps trying though he has little/a little chance of success.

7. ‘I'm afraid, you need few/ a few fillings', said the dentist.

8. He must have made a hundred clocks in his life, but few/a few of them ever worked properly.

9. She wasn't hungry. She just had few/a few spoonfuls of soup.

10.I can't play tennis today. I have few/a few jobs to do around the house.

11.Help yourself to a whisky. There is still little/a little left.

12.Nowadays few/a few people have servants in their house.

13.I had little/a little time to catch the train, but I just made it.

14.I have few/a few friends that I can trust, but not many.

15.Don't bother, little/a little depends on the outcome of the inquiry.

16.There are few/a few scholarships for students in this university.

17.If you don't hurry, we'll miss the train. There is little/a little time to spare.

18.It's a difficult text. I've had to look up quite few/a few words in the dictionary.

19.I can't spare any of these catalogues. There are only few/a few left.

20.I can't let you use much of this perfume. There's only little/a little in the bottle.

21.There are few/a few people who know about this, so keep it to yourself.

22.If what you say is true, there is little/a little we can do about it. We'd better give it up.

23.His ideas are difficult and few/a few people understand them.

24.His ideas are difficult but few/a few people understand them.

25.The average MP has little/a little real power.

26.We go to parties every weekend. We've got quite few/a few friends here.

27.She earns little/a little more than you because she does extra jobs at the office.

(from: Н.Н. Дианина. Дополнительные материалы к учебнику «New Headway Upper-intermediate». М., МГИМО, 2003.)