The phrase "a favored few" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a select group of individuals who are preferred or given special treatment.
Example: "In the exclusive club, only a favored few are granted access to the private events."
Alternatives: "a select few" or "an elite group".
The main beneficiaries won't be the American people, but a favored few unions and politically connected corporations.
Add to that, he said, the failure of privatization in many Latin American countries, where a favored few reaped fortunes while services declined.
In the energy sector, policy makers will have to guarantee that concessions involving foreign oil companies are awarded fairly and transparently and are not handed out to a favored few.
Even David Swensen, Yale's chief investment officer, who is widely viewed as the godfather of what has become known as the Yale model, has cautioned that few could expect to replicate Yale's results, because Yale had access to top managers whose doors were closed to all but a favored few.
The general spread of the light of science has already laid open to every view the palpable truth, that the mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few, booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately by the grace of God.
Indeed, "The general spread of the light of science has already laid open to every view, the palpable truth, that the mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately, by the grace of god".
Not the favored few!" he cried to a blue-collar crowd at a Beaufort youth center.
She was thrilled to be among the favored few.
The novelist Philip Roth was one of the favored few.
Investor response to those favored few has been schizoid.
In this case, a longer birth season favored fewer males in the group, as expected.
