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The phrase "a minimal less" is not correct in written English.
It seems to be an attempt to express a reduction or decrease, but it is not a standard expression.
Example: "We need a minimal less impact on the environment."
Alternatives: "a slight reduction" or "a minimal decrease."
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Following the experimental design illustrated in Figure 1 (see Methods), plaque numbers for phage treated at 50°C, regardless of the time of exposure, were unchanged relative to control phage lysates; dilution series were carried out confirming a minimal (less than one order of magnitude) decline in phage survival (results not shown).
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It seems that way: after days of Russian officials darkly hinting — at times shouting outright hysterically — that U.S. missile strikes in Syria would be met with an escalatory counterattack, the American military seems to have hit a more minimal, less provocative selection of targets.
We next performed advanced image analyses from these microscopy images and show that the distance a metabolite needs to cross to reach a consuming auxotroph from a supplying prototroph is minimal (less than two yeast cell diameters).
However they found a minimal variation (less than 1%) when comparing the methylation patterns among plants of the same ecotype.
The purified suspension presented a homogenous population of acinar cells with a minimal presence (less than 5%) of mononuclear immune cells as revealed by flow cytometry analysis.
Our single-molecule fluorescence approach two-color coincidence detection (TCCD) can overcome such limitations as it requires a minimal quantity (less than femtomoles) of labeled components.
It is expected that through the use of a minimal or less restrictive set of selection criteria, we will increase the heterogeneity of our sample.
This is particularly relevant, for example, for miRNAs whose list is continuously growing (known mature human miRNAs are at present 2588, but they were only 313 about ten years ago), and the number of miRNA targets experimentally validated is only a minimal fraction (less than 2%%) of those numerically predicted.
A small amount of blood does flow through the catheter itself, but this is minimal (less than 5 µL).
Indeed the crowd for what was the biggest match of the English league season matched that of the World Cup final in Rome two months later (there was a minimal difference of less than a thousand between the two).
On average, overall feedback inhibition decreases the stability margins by a minimal amount (typically less than 5%).
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