The phrase "a minimal stretch" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a small or slight extension or deviation from a norm or expectation.
Example: "In this context, making a connection between the two theories is a minimal stretch, given their similarities."
Alternatives: "a slight stretch" or "a small leap".
Btw I'm a mother with minimal stretch marks".
> -wrap-foot> According to the definition of Butler and Kadonaga, a core promoter is the minimal stretch of contiguous DNA sequences that is sufficient to direct the accurate initiation of transcription by the RNA polymerase II machinery, and, in particular, its physical length is about ±40 bp around the TSS.
Dressed in a minimal black stretch garment, gesturing with languid arms and surrounded by campy dancers -- the men wore silver hot pants or, in a quasi-Latin number, flouncy black skirts -- she projected an android cool that was decidedly out of place.
It helps because when you wake up, your legs will be nice and loose, and will only require minimal stretching.
(This may seem weird as the problem is with your knee, but the reason is, if your quad muscles were always worked hard with minimal stretching all your life they get tight and hard.
They steadily rejected conventional designs - a suspension bridge's towers, for example, would have obscured St Paul's - for a flat, minimal platform "stretched as tightly as possible between the two banks", as Wise put it later.
A good constitutive model should represent the three-dimensional nature of stress-stretch behavior using a minimal number of parameters to represent physically the deformation process.
Stage effects were minimal: a stretch of sailcloth or shifts of lighting.
A leaflet describing the stretching exercises from the hip school was used as a minimal intervention control.
