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   )\/(ark Lewis:   
      
   ML> there's  nothing  wrong  with that sentence... "several"   
   ML> specifically means "three or more but not too many more"   
   ML> ;)   
   ML>   
   ML> the  prepending  of "In this article" doesn't really add   
   ML> anything to the sentence...   
   ML>   
   ML> why did the chief of a computer-science laboratory think   
   ML> there was a problem with it?   
      
   My friend's account of it was so vague and incomplete that I   
   daredn't try retell it here. It  included,  for  example,  a   
   contrast  with  "a function of several arguments", which the   
   chief considered correct and which is in fact an interesting   
   example of `several' used in technical language with a mean-   
   ing that is wider than the general one: any naturual  number   
   greater than unity.   
      
   As to my friend's article, he has decided to replace `sever-   
   al' with `a number of' because he likes it better.   
      
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