The phrase "a minor group" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a smaller or less significant group within a larger context, often in discussions about demographics, social structures, or categories.
Example: "In the study, we focused on a minor group of participants who had unique characteristics that set them apart from the majority."
Alternatives: "a small group" or "a lesser group".
"They are a minor group crying all the time.
A minor group of corals, the Cothoniida, is known from the Middle Cambrian.
The third class of bryophytes comprises the hornworts, a minor group numbering fewer than 100 species.
Abu Sayyaf is a minor group in a long-running Muslim separatist war in the south of the Philippines, an overwhelmingly Roman Catholic nation.
It was that extinction possibly caused by massive volcanic eruptions, or another meteorite that cleared the way for the dominance of dinosaurs, who were up until then only a minor group.
Ludic, a minor group of dialects spoken to the southeast of Karelia, is considered to be a blend of Karelian and Veps, a related Finno-Ugric language spoken to the south of Karelia.
The planetary nebula NGC 5189, actually the aftermath of a stellar explosion, lies about 3000 years away in the Southern Hemisphere constellation Musca (Latin for "fly"), a minor grouping of stars near the Southern Cross.
The sole group 2 G3 HEV was from a pig from Scotland and falls outside the dominant human clade, sitting among a minor grouping.
Based on phylogeny, more than 150 HRV types are classified as species A, B, and C [8]. Twelve HRV-A (the minor group) bind members of the low-density lipoprotein receptor (LDLR) family whereas the remaining A and B types (the major group) bind intercellular adhesion molecule-1 (ICAM-1) [9, 10]; for HRV-C, the recently identified CDHR3 might serve as a receptor [11].
Phil Robertson, the deputy Asia director for Human Rights Watch, says they are a very minor group of peaceful dissidents.
Thus, our study indicates that prostate tumors truly without altered ETS gene expression (NoETS) represent a relatively minor group.
