The phrase "a few continued" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to indicate that a small number of people or things persisted in an action or state.
Example: "While many left the meeting early, a few continued to discuss the project details."
Alternatives: "a handful persisted" or "some carried on".
The season starts and a few continued to play well, but others kind of slipped.
The students, most of them uniformed troops, repaired to a cramped bunker where a few continued discussing the book.
More than a few continued to sit silently.
The report found that 76 out of 108 top generals took such jobs from 2009 to 2011, and a few continued to advise the Department of Defense while on the payroll of contractors.
The Bundy style of spiritual defiance is now a fringe element, but it's part of a history that no Western Mormons have forgotten, and that a few continued to embrace long after the church moved into the American mainstream.
One-hundred subjects were entered into these studies between November , 1996and June, 2001 in the context of protocols approved by the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) Committee on Human Research (CHR); follow-up on a few continued until December 2004.
Quite a few continue to work with international issues, sometimes for N.G.O.s.
A few continue to smoke daily, while others, like Mr. Froberg, smoke now and then.
This prioritization shift comes at a crucial time, as the challenges of poverty, unemployment, a growing aging population and lack of adequate access to health care services, to name just a few, continue to impact all facets of the population.
A few continue beyond Pumamarka, passing by another archaeological site Marca Cocha to visit the Quechua speaking community of Huilloc.
Sprint, Comcast, Time Warner Cable, and Bright House Networks (to name a few) continue to bet big on Clearwire's WiMAX nationwide wireless network.
