The phrase "a minor but consistent" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something that is small in scale but occurs regularly or persistently.
Example: "There is a minor but consistent issue with the software that needs to be addressed."
Alternatives: "a small yet steady" or "a slight but ongoing".
Bacteroidetes were a minor, but consistent component of the clone libraries from all individuals and also on both body parts (Table 1 and Figure 1).
It should be noted a minor but consistent population of endogenous Bves molecules, identified positive staining with anti-Bves antibodies (Figure 5A) and negative staining with anti-Flag (arrows, Figure 5B).
A minor but consistent positive effect was observed (Fig. 2b), suggesting that storing stock protein samples in a glycerol-based buffer is appropriate for the purposes of electroporation, and will not compromise cell loading.
Besides the four major differences, we identified a prioritized list of 24 OCDs with minor but consistent differences between S19 and the two virulent strains, which included eight OCDs with frameshifts (priority 1 and 2), 12 OCDs with aa changes that cause a change in the net charge of the protein (priority 3) and nine OCDs with aa changes without change in the net charge (priority 4).
If such a variety is caused by ionic substitutions that are minor but consistent, they are called polytypoids.
The subsistence base included minor but consistent amounts of freshwater and terrestrial resources throughout the Archaic.
Differences in the molecular architecture of the cerebellum among phylogenetic groups of mammals are minor, but consistent, such as the pattern of zebrin II expression in the anterior vermis of ferrets resembles that of cats.
This inhibitory effect was found to be independent of the genetic background or tissue and was accompanied by minor but consistent increases in n-alkanes and C24 primary alcohols [ 24].
Additionally, a minor yet consistent activity on tyrosine and to a lesser extent histidine in P1 was observed.
Also, although additional rare CNVs overlapping exons may play a minor role, consistent with previous results (Bassett et al. 2008; Williams et al. 2013), methods for studying small CNVs require refining.
The ashes from bagasse BA, BRP, BI and BS present SiO2 in the form of quartz as the mainly crystalline phase, while the primary phase for the ash from BAL is potassium chloride, followed by potassium sulfate and silica appears as a minor crystalline phase, consistent with the chemical composition showed in Table 2.
