The phrase "a few flimsy" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a small number of items or arguments that are weak or lacking in substance.
Example: "The report presented a few flimsy excuses for the project's failure, which did not convince the stakeholders."
Alternatives: "a couple of weak" or "some insubstantial".
His "modernism" was "based on a few flimsy enharmonic devices," so that "the most important tools of my art I had to discover for myself".
"I lived in a 24-foot trailer with a few flimsy built-ins, and then moved to a huge Victorian house where my mom had all uncomfortable antiques, and no couch".
"I can't be doing with Glass's music," admitted Philip Hensher in the Spectator – it "seems to me to rest on a few flimsy harmonic devices, such as the constant switch between minor and major third".
The test: 16.1 units (Seven craft IPAs) Mitigating factors: none Verdict: Things get off to a bad start when I Google Angela Dowden, the supposed "expert nutritionist" who has endorsed the claim that a miracle cure for hangovers lies within a few flimsy discs of chorizo flavoured with soap (the packet says chilli and ginger, but my tastebuds say otherwise).
A few flimsy structures and small watercraft also sustained damage.
I flipped through a few flimsy pages of stock photo smiles beaming encouragingly, iridescent.
Near Excelsior, a few hundred flimsy-looking huts formed a shanty at the roadside.
There are just a few houses, small and flimsy and mounted on makeshift blocks that look like wheels, as if the owners could let off their brakes and trundle them to a different spot.
Most notably, the owner of the only independent nationwide television station, Vladimir Gusinsky, was arrested earlier this month, and freed without charge a few days later, amid flimsy-sounding allegations of embezzlement.
A few tiny bulletholes mark the flimsy fibreboard walls; dried flowers lie strewn across the floor; a door leads to a row of toilet cubicles, where a number of survivors huddled together in safety.
Midway through their show, the acrobats clear the stage while a few of their peers pull flimsy costumes over their orange uniforms.
