The phrase "a minimal extent" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a very small degree or amount of something.
Example: "The changes made to the project had a minimal extent on the overall outcome."
Alternatives: "a slight degree" or "a limited amount".
It is evident that film thickness is predominantly influenced by the heating duration at or above the melting point of zinc and, to a minimal extent, by changes in the resident time at the peak temperature.
Vande Kopple (1985) states that without recourse to metadiscourse, we would be able to write lists of sentences, but not cohesive texts and we would only be able to express our ideas to a minimal extent.
Serums will only moisturize to a minimal extent.
It is considered that the mother's integrity has been affected to a minimal extent.
Therefore, passive rise in blood glucose increases NAc glucose levels, but only to a minimal extent.
A serological overlap between autoimmune and HCV-related chronic hepatitis may occur, although to a minimal extent.
She has experienced sexism, she says, "to a really minimal extent.
We adopted a cluster-level thresholding with p < 0.05 after FWE correction, or uncorrected threshold with p < 0.001 and a minimal cluster extent of 10 voxels.
Significant activations (for cluster-level thresholding with p < 0.05 after FWE correction, or uncorrected threshold with p < 0.001 and a minimal cluster extent of 10 voxels, for exploratory purposes) in the temporal lobe comprised the right inferior temporal and fusiform gyri extending to the posterior parahippocampal gyrus and the left middle temporal gyrus (see Table 1).
Two control parameters are given: a minimal spatial extent of set to 4 cm and an amplitude threshold Thr set at 0.1 (−20 dB).
Group differences, masked with the appropriate main task effect (mask thresholded at P < 0.05, uncorrected), are reported at an uncorrected individual voxel threshold of P < 0.005 with a minimal cluster extent of five voxels.
