The phrase "a rather limited effect" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe the impact or influence of something that is not significant or extensive.
Example: "The new policy had a rather limited effect on employee productivity, as most workers continued with their usual routines."
Alternatives: "a somewhat restricted impact" or "a fairly minor effect".
The test results indicated that vertical FRP U-jackets have a rather limited effect on IC debonding failure.
On the other hand, recurring temporal modulations during long-lasting interocular conflict have a rather limited effect.
56 Overall, a marginal positive effect of sulfasalazine with a rather limited effect size in AS cannot be excluded.
While 62% of the QTLs had a rather limited effect (percent of phenotypic variance, PEV < 10%), 38% displayed an effect ≥ 10%.
Neither lowered production of cortisol nor dysautonomia appears to be a causative factor in most CFS patients because cortisol injections and various therapeutic approaches to autonomic nervous system abnormalities have so far shown a rather limited effect on CFS symptoms [ 17, 19, 20].
Our results showed that, while lovastatin-induced massive changes in gene expression, docetaxel had rather limited effects.
The present results also indicate that utilization of F tags may be an efficient means of reducing proteolytic stability of the AMP in a controlled way, of potential interest in situations where a rather limited and time-dependent antimicrobial effect is preferred, leading to inactivation of the administered AMP and generation of the completely endogenous template sequence in a prodrug context.
This result was observed in a rather limited population of patients; however, the effect was strong and consistent, since IRA increase was statistically significant in each and every patient.
However, mentor effects probably have a rather limited impact on the genetic population structure of diploid sexuals.
