The phrase "a minor step" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a small or insignificant action or progress in a particular context.
Example: "Implementing this new feature is just a minor step towards improving the overall user experience."
Alternatives: "a small step" or "a slight advancement."
The question of denying social service benefits to friends of terrorism is a minor step.
But where some think Dr. Singer crosses the line is in his argument that it is only a "minor step" -- and equally ethical -- to end the infant's life by lethal injection.
Although gathering more data may seem like a minor step, over time it can have a big impact — on policy making and on the phenomenon that is being tracked.
And because the Europeans — in contrast to outraged Israelis — view the new guidelines as a minor step reflecting longstanding policy, they do not see themselves as "owing Israel one".
The settlement is "one less thing to be negative on BP about and a minor step in the right direction toward the rehabilitation of BP," said Iain Armstrong, an equity analyst at the investment manager Brewin Dolphin in London.
The Ledbetter act is certainly legislation to be celebrated by feminists and equal rights advocates everywhere, but in many ways the legislation is just one remedy in a long list of injustices done in the last eight years and a minor step up in the battle for equal pay.
The deal is nonetheless heartening news, given the stasis into which negotations on the president's proposed trade deals seemed to have fallen.Those deals would not be any minor step forward for trade.
"Continuing to install large numbers of new centrifuges is significant" since filling them with raw uranium "is a relatively minor step," the Institute for Science and International Security, a private group in Washington, said in an analysis of the report.
"The number of scenarios that are automatable will increase over time, and one fine day, the vehicle is able to control itself completely, but that last step will be a minor, incremental step and one will barely notice this actually happened," Rajkumar told the 99% Invisible podcast.
Earlier in the afternoon, the Mets announced the signing of the right-hander Claudio Vargas to a minor league contract, a small step toward filling the void in their ailing pitching staff.
On the basis of the comparison of wild-type LacY with two symport impaired mutants, E325A and C154G, it was suggested (17) that turnover of LacY involves two electrogenic steps at pH 7.6: (i) a minor electrogenic step triggered by sugar binding (representing only 6% of the charge translocated by wild-type LacY) and (ii) a major electrogenic step due probably to cytoplasmic H+ release.
