The phrase "a minimal contribution to" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the extent or significance of someone's input or effort in a particular context or project.
Example: "Her research made a minimal contribution to the overall findings of the study."
Alternatives: "a slight input to" or "a small addition to".
And because they are modest to begin with, they can make only a minimal contribution to America's long-term energy needs.
Automobile company executives have said that the program would make only a minimal contribution to cleaning California's air and that it would be difficult to sell even a few thousand electric vehicles.
"It is time for the transport industry to do more to tackle climate change, instead of claiming that it makes a minimal contribution to global warming, or simply blaming other industry sectors".
The UN's largest contributors have a caustic view of the committee, regarding it as run by countries who make a minimal contribution to the cost of the UN but decide both the secretariat and peacekeeping budgets.
The MgO support itself has been shown to make a minimal contribution to n-octane activation [44].
The exact number and strength of concurrent synapses is not a key parameter since these make a minimal contribution to relief of magnesium ion blockade in NMDARs at the synapse of interest.
The rest of the characters seem to have a very minimal contribution to variability.
But this is a special landscape, and does this minimal contribution to the grid outweigh the degradation these lines impose?" Her group wants power companies to use smaller towers, employ routes that parallel highways rather than cut across pasture and better compensate landowners.
Our finding that SLN content was reduced in human CNM reveals a potential species difference and suggests that this SERCA regulator may have minimal contribution to the SERCA dysfunction and overall CNM pathology.
But this claim was dismissed by the judge who perceived the journals as offering "minimal" contribution to public debate.
The goal, the students say, is to protest what they see as Google's minimal contribution to the British treasury.
