I've been trying to find out the difference between 'few weeks' and ''a few weeks'. And here's a sentence written in my textbook.
A memorable incident happend during my first few weeks.
it is more like putting emphasis on how soon it happened.
A memorable incident happened during my first a few weeks.
But there's nothing emphasizing how soon the incident happened.
Am I right
Best Answer
In this case "my first" acts like a definitive article, clearly specifying a unique time frame. Using an additional indefinitive one would not work - a grammatical contradiction, you could say.
If you want to put more emphasis on the early time, you need to rewrite the sentence, e.g.: