The phrase "a minimum of a few" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when indicating that the quantity being referred to is at least a small number, but not specifying an exact amount.
Example: "To ensure a successful event, we need a minimum of a few volunteers to help with the setup."
Alternatives: "at least a few" or "no less than a few".
No return date has been given, although Coach Mike McCarthy said it would probably be a minimum of a few weeks.
In practice, this limits the sub-region size to a minimum of a few microns.
Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and Vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus (VRE) have been shown to survive on inanimate surfaces for a minimum of a few weeks and in some cases months [ 1, 7- 11].
Continue the process as long as you see activity but do give a minimum of a few hours or a maybe a day's gap between repeat pourings.
And so that hosts and guests alike might enjoy these waning days of summer with a minimum of bloodshed, a few last-minute tips.
David Cameron will doubtless depart from his political career next month with the bare minimum of a few lucrative company directorships and a kiss-and-tell book deal, so long as that police horse, Raisa and the lamb he cuddled at Easter can be persuaded to ditch their own competing publications, both currently being ghostwritten from audiotapes by the Financial Times's Ben Thompson.
Experiments with highly photosensitive rod cells show that detectable responses occur at the minimum of a few tens of photons from a coherent source [ 33].
Intake of salt dropped by 15 per cent between 2001 and 2011, leading to a minimum of 6,000 fewer strokes and heart attack deaths per year, saving £1.5bn.
The laboratory's bottleneck-verification software has performed well on these networks, detecting attacks with a minimum of false alarms (fewer than 1 per week).
Changing the default to a minimum contribution of a few percent, as many companies have done, has had a dramatic impact on retirement savings: When one firm raised the default contribution from zero to 3%, for example, the percentage of new employees saving anything toward retirement rose from 37% to 86%.
Rangel proposed that "all persons in the United States between the ages of 18 and 25, if called upon by the president during a declaration of war, a national emergency, or a military contingency operation, to perform national service for a minimum of two years with few exceptions".
