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[Monte Davis]

I read it as a mildly humorous intensifier: his days were numbered and [just
in case you were wondering what range of number] few. But then, I grew up on
too much S.J. Perelman.

 

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p. 935 Coombs had known since quite early on the job that his days with the
War Office 

were numbered and few. 

 

Q: a Redundancy, a tidbit of lax writing? When one says one's days were
'numbered', isn't few

sorta implied?

 

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