The phrase "a small but select" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a group that is limited in size but carefully chosen or distinguished in some way.
Example: "The event attracted a small but select audience of art enthusiasts who appreciated the unique pieces on display."
Alternatives: "a limited yet distinguished" or "a few but notable".
IT started as a typical industry evening: a small but select dinner given by Sony Pictures at the Telluride Film Festival in Colorado this year.
As with heirloom vegetables and microbrews, their success depends on developing a small but select public for whom connoisseurship is as important as the wallet.
The LA quintet were similarly journeymen college rockers going nowhere before a small but select handful of whopping hits made them one of the world's biggest bands.
Morgan Library www.morganlibrary.org The site features a small but select assortment of products that relate to the museum's collections, which include Medieval and Renaissance manuscripts, music manuscripts, literary and historical manuscripts, drawings and ancient Near Eastern seals.
HIERONYMUS BOSCH and the painter formally known as Balthus -- a devilish duo if ever there was one -- head a small but select roster of one-artist surveys in Europe this fall.
In the model, employers choose either informal recruitment methods (which generate a small but select applicant pool from which the employer can hire quickly) or formal methods (which create a large but less select applicant pool which the employer must screen intensively, delaying hiring times).
Second, given the scale of assessing methylation at all promoters, we could only study a small but selected sample.
A small but carefully selected wine list, mostly from California, begins at $20.
We tried to select a small but representative group of examples that would be familiar to most readers.
By counting a small but statistically significant and randomly selected sample of paper ballots, the state can prove statistically that the vote has not been tampered with, without needing to go to the expense of initiating a full recount, and without losing the organisational benefits of digital voting machines.
See the FlexPepDockAbInitio protocol capture archive: scripts/clustering/cluster.sh pdb-id topXrms-radius scorefile reference-pdb models-silent-file score-type Since the FlexPepDock ab-initio simulations are time intensive, we selected a small but representative subset of complexes on which to assess the protocol.
