The phrase "a comparatively small amount" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when comparing quantities to indicate that the amount in question is smaller relative to another amount.
Example: "The budget for this project is a comparatively small amount when considering the overall funding available."
Alternatives: "a relatively small quantity" or "a modest amount".
The distribution of tremors along strike seems to coincide with the location of the KPR, which is a remnant arc that is considered to have undergone a comparatively small amount of dehydration during subduction compared with the surrounding oceanic plate.
But more than anything, one has to wonder why the oil companies are fighting so hard for a comparatively small amount of cash, at least for them.
So if you were to inject a comparatively small amount of sulphate into the stratosphere while phasing out all industrial emissions lower down, Dr Crutzen noted in a paper published five years ago, you could keep today's cooling levels while getting huge health benefits.The technical, environmental, political and moral pros and cons of such "geoengineering" have been widely discussed since.
Yet such labs could process a comparatively small amount of data.
But what is truly striking is how much is done in a comparatively small amount of space.
(The great thing about Italian lire is that there are so many zeros already that even a comparatively small amount still looks the GNP of Burkina Faso).
When you're trying to get people to put money into an idea, you're more likely to get one person who is willing to put a comparatively smaller amount of money into a daring idea then to get 20 people to agree on an idea they're going to spend a lot more on.
The DNA damage induced by MMS includes 3-methyladenine lesions, which inhibit replication, as well as a comparatively smaller amount of O 6 -methyl guanine lesions.
Exhibiting fewer degrees of freedom to be 'tuned' with experimental data, this method can consequently generate statistically significant classifiers with a comparatively smaller amount of microarray training data while generally avoiding problems of overfitting.
Of course the comparatively small amount of dissolved blue powder that you slosh around your terrace may not amount to much globally.
However, the comparatively small amount of both the 99mTc and the ICG agents used with the PCSN probes in this study depicted the sentinel lymph nodes successfully.
