The phrase "a minimum extent" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe the least amount or degree to which something is applicable or relevant.
Example: "The changes will affect the project only to a minimum extent, ensuring that the original goals remain intact."
Alternatives: "a slight degree" or "a minimal level".
A political system is based on trust that everyone will abide by the rules to at least a minimum extent; without that, stability will be short-lived.
The same can be stated-though to a minimum extent – for the inclination angle while channel length (or channel to diameter ratio) effect was clear and consistent.
The ice, which is now expanding as the sun dips toward the horizon for the winter, hit a minimum extent of about 1.74 million square miles on Sept. 12, said Walter Meier, a research scientist at the center.
The peneplain is developed in Cretaceous granitoids and Jurassic metasediments of the northern Lhasa block (90°E, 31°N) and originally had a minimum extent of ~ 150 km east west and ~ 75 km north south.
The latter should be designed with the aim to keep carry over at a minimum extent.
The DS procedures for the last two fields are presented in a minimum extent and thus, we did not involve them into next analyses.
2012 shattered the previous record low sea ice extent; hence 'regression towards the mean' told us that 2013 would likely have a higher minimum extent.
Now it's official: as of September 16, according to the National Snow and Ice Data Center, the sea ice covering the Arctic Ocean reached a record low minimum extent.
Summer 2012 saw a spectacular fall in sea ice extent: "The Arctic sea ice September minimum extent reached a new record low in 2012 of 3.41 million square kilometers, 44percentt below the 1981-2010 andrage, and 16percentt below the previous record in 2007".
In the case of membrane interfacial proteins whose extents do not cover the lipid bilayer, a minimum protein extent is set to Z = 20 Å and Z = −20 Å.
The analysis produced a summer Arctic sea-ice minimum extent of 6.9 million sq km.
