Sentence:  If , however , the figure to be discerned were complicated , composed of <WSD>several</WSD> interlocking subfigures , and so on , even the tracing process failed him , and he could not focus even relatively simple shapes among its parts . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  (used with count nouns) of an indefinite number more than 2 or 3 but not many