The phrase "a strict minimum" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to indicate the least amount or level required in a specific context, often emphasizing that it is non-negotiable.
Example: "To ensure safety, we must maintain a strict minimum of two staff members on duty at all times."
Alternatives: "a bare minimum" or "an absolute minimum".
Fillon has talked tough on newcomers, promising to reduce immigration to a "strict minimum".
The I.A.A.F., which said too much about Semenya and her private life in Berlin, is keeping its public pronouncements to a strict minimum at this awkward stage.
She said the central government allotted a strict minimum number of days to major urban centers that must be reported as "blue sky," pollution-free days.
Perhaps this year, one hopes, there could be an unofficial semi-ban on cameras panning on any diva-style "mugging" from current or former politicos, keeping their air time to a strict minimum.
But in the end the Cuban negotiators accepted the minimum of 18. Jo Becker, an official with Human Rights Watch, welcomed the agreement, though she expressed disappointment that the United States and other countries succeeded in weakening a strict minimum age of 18 for anyone in uniform, which Canada and the Scandinavian countries had advocated.
It will be a year with a Winter Olympics and the first youth Olympics; a year with a soccer World Cup and a Ryder Cup; a year that could produce its share of Ross Brawns and Usain Bolts and, one hopes, a strict minimum of tragedy and, in Woods's case, text messaging.
In addition, the grid adaptation reduces the amount of saved data to the strict minimum for a given a priori controlled accuracy of the solution.
There was an almost monastic air of strict minimum about the place.
Of course these expenditures and losses are not the strict minimum required to raise a child – not by a long shot.
In P. cinnabarinus, post-transcriptional glycosylation capabilities appear reduced to the strict minimum, making it a promising candidate for heterologous protein production in biotechnological applications.
Laylah Ali keeps figuration to a strict, cartoonish minimum.
