The phrase "a minimal staff" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a small number of employees or personnel required to perform a specific function or task.
Example: "Due to budget constraints, we will be operating with a minimal staff during the off-peak season."
Alternatives: "a small team" or "a lean workforce".
A bistro in Maplewood produces elegant meals with a minimal staff.
He has a minimal staff of experts and shuns formal meetings, preferring the telephone or one-on-one encounters.
The National Union of Journalists is supporting members on regional papers who are struggling to the best job they can, on low wages, with a minimal staff.
Donors have urged Ms. Thompson to expand the program, but she has demurred, citing a minimal staff and her nonprofit's dwindling bank balance.
Keep just a minimal staff to help organize the press conferences McCain and Palin should have at every stop and the TV interviews they should do at every location.
He had launched Morphoses on a minimal staff, with just him and his executive director, Lourdes Lopez, at the helm; he quickly found that, as well as artistic director and choreographer, he was having to act as administrator, fundraiser and teacher.
Such early transfer allowed for elective, early intubation to be done in a controlled environment by minimal staff, which resulted in a reduced risk for transmission.
As the president of a family foundation with minimal staff and just three board members beyond the Simonses, Marilyn has the kind of latitude that presidents of legacy foundations can only dream of.
By the end of the third-quarter 2007, Gravel had about $17,500 in cash on hand, had collected a total of about $380,000 so far during the 2008 election cycle, and was continuing to run a threadbare campaign with minimal staff.
A lot of the rural hospitals like mine would be similar small units, minimal staff and a big patient population.
Regarding that charge, USW in a Feb. 28, 2013 statement said OSHA had cited ExxonMobil Baton Rouge--following OSHA's inspection of the site on May 12, 2011--for not having the minimal staff to shut down a specific unit during an emergency.
