The phrase "a minute portion of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a very small or insignificant part of something.
Example: "The study revealed that a minute portion of the population was affected by the rare condition."
Alternatives: "a tiny fraction of" or "a small segment of".
"A cell," she wrote, "is a minute portion of living substance".
Yes, those shoppers represent a minute portion of the population, but their devotion has helped build the brand.
Additionally, the microFLOQ® system subsamples only a minute portion of a stain and preserves the vast majority of the sample for subsequent testing or re-analysis, if desired.
Mark DeHaan, senior vice president for National Heritage Academies, said creationism would occupy a "minute" portion of the time spent on evolution.
He appears in a minute portion of two stereoscopic photographs that were meant to be looked at in a special 3-D viewer.
Although P.& G. would not comment on its relationship with Redox or the specifics of the deal, it said in a prepared statement that Oxydol, which represented a minute portion of company sales, "no longer provided a strategic fit".
More often than not Sightings authors have had to reckon with moments in the literal sense: "a minute portion or point of time" or "a comparatively brief period of time"—the events of a day, a week, maybe a month.
Few studies report tool using time budgets, but even habitual tool users such as orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus abelii) [28] and chimpanzees [29] devote a minute portion (<3%) of their overall activity (and foraging) budget to tool use; on the avian extreme is one population of woodpecker finches (Cactospiza pallida) that use tools for approximately 10% of the time [calculated from 30].
Why do people in Trinidad live in an amazing warm climate yet eat blueberries and raspberries imported from California? Agriculture is a shockingly minute portion of the economy.
"The money I spent on Sparkles the Clown is a very, very minute portion of the forfeited money that I spend in fighting the war on drugs," he told The Post.
The whole story is worth reading, and it includes a defensive Ohio police chief who told the paper, "The money I spent on Sparkles the Clown is a very, very minute portion of the forfeited money that I spend in fighting the war on drugs".
