The phrase "a select minority of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a specific, chosen group that is smaller in number compared to the larger population.
Example: "A select minority of the committee members voted in favor of the new policy."
Alternatives: "a chosen few" or "a specific subset of".
Education cannot be overhauled in this typically top-down manner, with a select minority of institutions running the show at the expense of the sector as a whole.
In 1955 the industrial colour bar was breached, and a select minority of African workers were encouraged to live out their working lives in the mining areas: "stabilized" labour began to replace oscillating migrant labour.
Combined with the higher AIC levels that we identified in those with earlier stages of CKD and that have also been shown to be independently associated with death in those with CKD [ 22], it is not surprising that only a select minority of people with diabetes live long enough to develop ESRD and that this survivorship particularly favours those with a younger age of diabetes onset.
Under the deal, which was completed in December 2007, Zell gained veto power over management decisions, the right to select a minority of board members, and an option to buy a remaining 40 percent share in the company, which was valued at $8.2 billion.
In the information age, a system that selects a minority of children betrays Britain's national interest.
Medical practitioners typically use individual approaches (such as medical knowledge, experience, threshold of uncertainty) to select the minority of patients requiring urgent attention from the majority who are likely to have self-limiting disorders.
Unlike remedial programs, which by their nature seek to remedy past wrongs and move beyond race-based preference, respondents' pursuit of a critical mass of selected minority students would justify such a policy in perpetuity.
This subjective withdrawal into the "solitude" of one's radical reality provides the necessary retreat of the select minorities whenever confronted with the constraints of the masses, a process which resembles Nietzsche's concept of the übermensch.
We rigorously evaluated strategies to improve the quality of care for racial/ethnic minority patients in a select group of studies.
In the second-line setting after first-line docetaxel (before abiraterone/enzalutamide/radium-223), 9% of the panel recommended cabazitaxel in a majority of patients, 57% in a minority of selected patients and 31% did not recommend it.
