The phrase "a distinctly smaller" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to emphasize a noticeable difference in size between two or more items or concepts.
Example: "The new model is a distinctly smaller version of the previous one, making it easier to handle."
Alternatives: "significantly smaller" or "noticeably smaller".
Macrococcus is evolutionarily closely related to the genus Staphylococcus, but possesses a distinctly smaller genome with a size of 2.1 Mb in the species M. caseolyticus1.
The volume parameters show that the RAF which is formed during crystallisation from the melt has a distinctly smaller specific free and total volume than the MAF.
To concentrate on this country alone, without the Situationists, there would have been no Sex Pistols, with all that entails, a distinctly smaller possibility of Iain Sinclair- or Will Self-ian psychogeographical dérives, and a whole tranche of associated cultural inspiration would have gone missing.
c Two months after the start with steroids, a distinctly smaller orbital mass is seen on fat suppression MRI scan with residual perineural thickening of the optic nerve without contrast enhancement.
This difference in CCP after varying the PaCO2 was in a distinctly smaller range than that observed in our septic patients.
As shown in Tables 4 and 5, the scoring of lung lesions according to the AVVLmH criteria [ 13] by AQAs improved dramatically and differed at a distinctly smaller degree compared with the assessments of the OV.
Until an arrest is made, the uneasiness is unlikely to subside in West Trenton, a middle-class suburb with a distinctly small-town feel.
While bringing some big-city professionalism to a distinctly small-time operation, he says he is making enough money to support himself, and he has been able to assign some freelance work to a few underemployed former colleagues.
Spain, for example, chose not to submit Pedro Almodovar's "Skin I Live In," and France, which last year passed over the highly praised "Of Gods and Men" and was widely criticized for doing so, submitted "Declaration of War," a drama about a young couple's battle to save their sick child that has a distinctly small-budget indie feel.
Compared to the soil temperature change at a depth of 1 m, the soil temperature at a depth of 15 m has a distinctly small amplitude in response to future climate change.
There is a distinctly small-town feel to Utila.
