How to select a range of elements in jQuery

<div id="myDiv">
     <a>...</a>
     <a>...</a>
     <a>...</a>
     <a>...</a>
     <a>...</a>
     <a>...</a>
</div>

If you wanted to select the 2nd, 3rd and 4th a tags in the above example, how would you do that? The only thing I can think of is:

$("#myDiv a:eq(1), #myDiv a:eq(2), #myDiv a:eq(3)")

But that doesn't look to be very efficient or pretty. I guess you could also select ALL the as and then do run .each over them, but that could get very inefficient if there were a lot more as.