The phrase "a minor branch" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a less significant or smaller division of a larger organization, field, or subject area.
Example: "The research focused on a minor branch of environmental science that studies urban ecosystems."
Alternatives: "a small division" or "a lesser category".
Publishing forms a minor branch of the entertainment industry, and book design is increasingly a matter of fashion — that is, of attention-getting.
She belonged to a minor branch of the powerful Fujiwara clan, but her given name (like those of other women) was omitted from genealogies.
Lady Murasaki — not her real name; her sobriquet was the name of Genji's great love — was born into a minor branch of the Fujiwara clan.
That mythology, with a powerful boost from the Internet, which magically transforms rumors into facts, has developed ramifications so baroque that it might today be called a minor branch of Brazilian literature.
Raine, a leading exponent of so-called Martianism – a minor branch of British poetry in the 1970s and 1980s – has links to another of the movement's protagonists, Martin Amis, another target of Eagleton's ire.
Born in 1700 as Mary Granville into a minor branch of an aristocratic family, she spent parts of her childhood with an aunt, diligently preparing for a position at court.
MT4-MMP null mice had minimal renal developmental abnormalities, with a minor branching morphogenesis defect in early embryonic kidney development and slightly dysmorphic collecting ducts in adult mice.
Although hexosamine pathway is a relatively minor branch of glycolytic pathway (about 3% of total glucose utilization) [ 16, 17], several studies have reported that the flux through hexosamine pathway may play a major role in the development of IR and other complications accompanying diabetes [ 16- 22].
However HS2 objector Dr Paul Thornton said: "This is not simply a minor correction, or a small branch line into the city centre.
Few readers would interpret Fig. 10b as implying that a main line exists with perch as the endpoint and humans and other mammals as a minor, early branching offshoot, even given the fact that teleost fishes make up roughly 50% of all vertebrate diversity, whereas mammals represent about 10%.
Although 90Y is predominantly a β− emitter, coincidence imaging of 90Y is possible because of a minor decay branch to the 0+ first excited state of zirconium-90 followed by β−β+ internal pair production at a very low branching ratio of 31.86 ± 0.47 × 10−6 [210−6].
