The phrase "a little helpful" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
Example: While I appreciate your advice, I only found it to be a little helpful in solving my problem.
We should try to be a little helpful.
It reminds a child that new worlds and ideas are right there for the asking, and it reminds adults that even dreams need a little helpful nudge now and then.
The dispute quickly caught the eye of the media – with, perhaps, a little helpful prodding – and the minute it was resolved, BrewDog launched a new beer called SpeedBall (the name for a combination of heroin and cocaine), gleefully labelling it a "class A strong ale" with "a vicious cocktail of active ingredients".
Second, the crowding distance is a little helpful for the convergence of populations of NSGA-II on 2-objective MOPs, but the population cannot converge to the Pareto fronts of MOPs without non-dominated sorting.
But one guy did offer Minaj a little helpful advice.
A message is like a little helpful fact you throw in for free about how people are, or how stuff is, so that people don't feel they just wasted 20 hours holidaying in someone else's paranoid psychosis.
I would have preferred the game interface to be a little more helpful, but no one ever said war was supposed to be easy.
But if sharpened and better focused, the message could have been at least a little more helpful to the Republican cause.
(Or, if you are Michael Steele, the Republican National Committee chairman, you could tell CNN that the stimulus "had nothing to do with how pigs, why pigs stink," which seems a little less helpful).
