From: utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!CAD:tektronix!tekmdp!bronze!crimson!tomm
Newsgroups: net.jokes
Title: How many is quite a few
Article-I.D.: crimson.1450
Posted: Thu Jan 27 13:24:06 1983
Received: Sun Jan 30 09:10:23 1983


Seen in the Dec 6, 1982 issue of Infoworld:

	Table of Absolute values for Common
American Phrases Denoting Nonspecific Quantities
	(also called Ried's table)

Common Phrase				Absolute Value(s)

One					1
Only one				1
A couple				2 to 4
A few					3 to 5
Quite a few				3 to 6
Several					3 to 9
Many					3 to 8
Most (eg. "most authorities")		4 to 6
Half a dozen				5 to 7
About a half dozen			4 to 8
A lot					6 to 10
Quite a lot				7 to 11
A whole lot				8 to 17
Ten					9 to 11
Around ten				7 to 13
A dozen					11 to 13
About a dozen				9 to 15
A bunch					8 to 15
A whole bunch				9 to 19
Two dozen				22 to 26
About two dozen				21 to 27
A few hundred				75 to 125
A couple of hundred			99 to 139
Two or three hundred			140 to 175
Half a million (concert promoters 
	estimate of crowd size)		90,000 to 125,000
Most (expressed as a percentage)	10% to 20%
A majority				50% + 1
A clear majority			51%
A vast majority				52% to 60%
An overwhelming majority		61% to 70%
Almost all/everyone			71% to 75%
Practically all/everyone		76% to 80%
All/everyone				81% to 85%
Absolutely all/everyone			86% to 90%
100% of those surveyed			91% to 95%
Street value (narcotic agent's
	valuation)			Divide by 100 to find
						actual figure.