The phrase "a few specific issues" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a limited number of particular problems or topics that require attention or discussion.
Example: "During the meeting, we will address a few specific issues that have been affecting our project timeline."
Alternatives: "several particular concerns" or "a handful of distinct problems".
Because fads focus on the concerns of the moment, they tend to apply to a few specific issues rather than addressing the fundamental weakness or soundness of overall business practices.
Finally, we will attempt to apply what we have learned about foundations and theories in moral philosophy to a few specific issues that will move our discussion into the domain of the political.
On the whole, these patterns suggest an orientation toward the meeting as a source of general, rather than specific information, and an interest on the part of the in-depth users in what their peers had to say on a few specific issues.
Here are a few specific issues I like: Lyondell Chemical 9.875% senior secured notes due May 1, 2007, yield 9.4% at a price of $1,018 per $1,000 of principal.
Political analysts said Quinn has held closely to Bloomberg's policies, though she has carved out a few specific issues, including her support for a so-called living wage bill, which boosts the wages paid by employers who get city subsidies.
Indeed, patient age was found to affect the responses of the patients/parents in a few specific issues.
Sometimes--not often--a publisher may even permit his paper to express views different from his own, figuring that as long as the paper's editorials generally represent his views, he shouldn't overrule the editorial board on the few specific issues about which the board feels differently and, perhaps, more strongly.
Mr. Ford said they focused on a few specific, industrywide issues.
The work that summer interns received was largely confined to a few specific, minute issues within the department to which they were assigned.
Also writing in The Observer, former Downing Street strategist Matthew Taylor admits Labour is in a 'deep hole' and calls on Brown to focus on a few specific promises while delegating issues like prisoners' pay or plastic bag bans to his cabinet.
Since all of these studies and issues are discussed in this review, other than for a few specific mechanistic and risk assessment-related issues, the conclusions of the US EPA/IRIS assessment will not be further analyzed.
