The phrase "a few splendid" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a small number of impressive or excellent things, often in a positive context.
Example: "During our trip, we discovered a few splendid restaurants that we would love to visit again."
Alternatives: "a couple of magnificent" or "several remarkable".
In the Connecticut town where the writer lives, there are a few splendid machines still in daily operation.
There also were a few splendid chips, including one at 15, where he came out short from the bunker, and at 18, where he came out of a swale in front of the green to 2 feet.
There are a few splendid cartoon set pieces — including a funny, thrilling bee's-eye tour of New York, from Central Park flora to the surface of a tennis ball to the inside of a speeding car — that show off the latest computer animation techniques.
After a few months of splendid isolation, Byrd felt able to draw some conclusions.
He would never know about the breathtaking discovery that would be announced just a few years later a splendid confirmation of another prediction made several decades earlier.
A few more: Dennis Adams's splendid video, in which he hands out stills from a film about a girl being chased through an orphanage, mixes suspense and humor in a way even Hitchcock might envy.
He insists too often on being clever; he can go on too long and wreck what begins and continues for quite a few stanzas as a splendid poem written in ballad meter, "The Summer People," or he can choke a poem with detail, as he does in "Yánnina".
Yet over the course of a few decades developers created splendid neighborhoods all over the city: working-class apartments in Alphabet City, brownstones on Strivers' Row in Harlem and solid middle-class apartments on the Grand Concourse in the Bronx, along Eastern Parkway in Brooklyn and in Jackson Heights, Queens.
A few Slacks later, our splendid editor-in-chief Matthew Panzarino (thanks Matthew!) approved the expense and off to the chopper I went, picking up our social media and audience development analyst Anna Escher on the way.
But just a few blocks back from the splendid views of New York, the largely immigrant, working-class neighborhoods are much as they were before the boom, hardly affected by the big business being done nearby.
I eventually found out (after a sleepy graduate student I asked gave me a puzzled look and a lazy thumb) that the old library had been torn down a few years ago and a splendid new one built on the other side of campus.
