The phrase "a few footsteps" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a small number of steps taken, often in a physical or metaphorical context.
Example: "After a few footsteps, she realized she had left her bag behind."
Alternatives: "several steps" or "a couple of steps".
Wherever he goes, a doctor, nurse or paramedic trails a few footsteps behind, ready for any medical need.
Well, the beach is only a few footsteps away; so festive fossil hunting will be a doddle.
In Bergamo Alta you're never more than a few footsteps from squares containing trattorias where the tablecloths on the terrace gently flap.
The British Museum is a similarly capacious place where you can wander from Africa to ancient Greece in a few footsteps.
On third down on the SF eight-yard line, Rodgers is on the move again but falls to the ground with a few footsteps in his pocket.
A few footsteps inside Palestinian territory, it was laid briefly on the open ground so that Palestinians who were unable to get the necessary permits to attend the burial in Israel could bid him farewell.
Is Dubai going to struggle in years to come, its vast towers echoing to a few faltering footsteps?
He and his partners, Christian Hillaire and Éliette Brunel, were aware of the irreparable damage that even a few indelicate footsteps can cause to an environment that has been sealed for eons — posterity has lost whatever precious relics and evidence that the carelessly trampled floors of Lascaux and Altamira, both now sealed to the public, might have yielded.
By breaking down this signal the cells were producing their own chemical gradient – put simply, this meant there was always be a bit more of the chemical a few microscopic "footsteps" away, tempting the cells to keep moving in that direction.
These people are the outliers now, sure, but soon they won't be: soon a few tepid footsteps will turn into a stampede.
It's these pleasant few footsteps that allowed complex societies to blossom.
