The phrase "a few allocations" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a small number of distributions or assignments, often in contexts like finance, resources, or project management.
Example: "After reviewing the budget, we decided to make a few allocations to different departments to ensure they have the necessary resources."
Alternatives: "several distributions" or "a small number of assignments".
As discussed in [45] just a few different block allocations should be sufficient in a cell.
Why not remove the allocations portion, add in a few guiding principles for allocation, circumvent the lobbyists by delegating the specific allocation formula to an EPA Climate Allocations Board, and pass the rest of the bill?
When many centres enrol a few patients and allocation is unbalanced, the random intercept models can give more precise estimates of the treatment effect than the fixed intercept models, because they recover inter-centre information in unbalanced situations.
However, for smaller block sizes fewer allocations should be used to randomly select from (Table 1).
Although adequate estimation of surgery time for a specific procedure is frequently mentioned as an important factor, refinement of OR allocations a few months before the day of surgery as well as management decisions on the day of surgery appear to be more relevant in preventing over- or underutilization of operating rooms [7, 16].
Despite the tight allocation, a few activities were singled out for special treatment.
UNICEF has managed to complete the Project within the budget allocation, with only minor re-allocations among a few budget lines and without running into any budget over-run.
This could be a reaction to folks tethering their Kindles, resulting in a tragedy of the commons effect where some users are using a piddling amount of data while others are blowing out Amazon's allocations in a few hours.
When looking at the solutions available in the literature, it is evident that each experiment focuses on a few aspects of the resource allocation challenges faced in the area.
I know a few investors who got Amazon IPO allocations and still own those very shares 20 years later — it's been one of the absolute best return drivers for their funds.
