Sentence:  `` Very <WSD>few</WSD> wives '' , says Dr. Calderone , `` who balance the checkbook , fix the car , choose where the family will live and deal with the tradesmen , are suddenly going to become submissive where sex is concerned . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  a quantifier that can be used with count nouns and is often preceded by `a'; a small but indefinite number