The phrase "a little external" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to something that is slightly outside or beyond a certain boundary or context.
Example: "We need to consider a little external input to enhance our project."
Alternatives: "some outside" or "a bit of external".
The plot that holds this good looking film together is as thin as a supermodel, simply adding a little external drama to the central theme: that of a story of true love and desire between young lesbians.
Luckily, an included accessory is a little external battery pack, extending its life by a considerable amount.
Take five minutes and do a little external research on my company before you send over a note," said Mike Johnson (@YanceySlide), CISO at Lyft, in a post on LinkedIn.
Two years ago, researchers led by Bruce Logan, an environmental engineer from Pennsylvania State University in State College, showed that it was possible to get around this by giving the electrons generated by microbes a little external energy boost.
Marsden's goal is an awfully lofty one — he wants to see Dryft become the de facto mode of text input for tablets, though he concedes that the team can't do it without a little external help.
Well, not really, but there are some nice little upgrades (and a grip of phones) trickling out, so if you were in the market for a little external drive, better read this before you shell out.
... At still higher internal synaptic strength, the network corrupted the external information, producing a state where little external information came through.
"This study is important," says Myron M. Levine, director of the Center for Vaccine Development at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, "because it demonstrates that a developing country can design, produce, and evaluate a moderately effective vaccine in a large field trial with little external assistance".
Quatrina Hosain, a journalist, said some anchors need little external encouragement to launch defamatory attacks on public figures and commercial rivals.
But South Korea is better protected than most, with a big current-account surplus and little external debt.Still, Jun Sung-in of Hongik University says the latest rate cut will amount to little more than a "spring breeze" for the economy.
At a time when accountability is declining in both the U.S. government and corporate America, there is little external oversight of a company like McKinsey, and we are left asking the people at the firm to impose it on themselves.
