The phrase "a much smaller difference" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when comparing two or more items, indicating that the difference between them is significantly less than another difference being discussed.
Example: "When comparing the two products, there is a much smaller difference in price than in quality."
Alternatives: "a significantly lesser difference" or "a notably reduced difference".
There was a much smaller difference in the brainwaves of babies who developed autism.
By contrast, Figure 2 depicts a much smaller difference in the proportion of migrants who send remittances and marry a German spouse rather than a non-German.
Where the mantle of Chun's specimen (Velodona togata togata) was significantly wider than it is long, the mantles of Robson's specimens had a much smaller difference between width and length, with one specimen having a mantle with identical width and length.
Therefore, we are powered to detect a much smaller difference.
However, there was a much smaller difference between the two genders in relation to reactive aggression.
Our data show a much smaller difference between the Lactate Plus and the YSI bench top analyzers (fixed bias=−0.056 mM/l).
While smoking is much less common in female than in male adults in Seychelles (respectively 4%and31%1% in 2004 [ 30]), the much smaller difference by gender among youth may predict a marked increase in the prevalence of smoking in future generations of adult women [ 17, 31].
The much smaller difference in the two FRET efficiencies seen in the FLIM analysis may be due to the over-simplification of multiple FRET processes by the two-component fit used in the FLIM analysis.
We found the much smaller difference of MM enrichment scores in colon cancer (0.34) and breast cancer (0.46), both of which had same pathological settings, although different microarray platform were utilized in breast cancer.
Using predicted-to-expected readmission ratios instead of observed-to-expected ratios yielded similar although much smaller differences (appendix A). *Hospitals divided by quintiles based on hospital's number of index discharges in 2010; group A is lowest volume fifth, group E is highest volume fifth.
