The phrase "a relatively minor influence" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the impact or effect of something that is not significant in comparison to other factors.
Example: "While the new policy was implemented, it had a relatively minor influence on the overall performance of the team."
Alternatives: "a somewhat insignificant impact" or "a fairly small effect."
The pH value of the emulsion exerted a relatively minor influence on the polymerization, with a somewhat narrower particle size distribution being obtained at pH = 3.2 relative to pH = 2.4 and 5.2.
In a study billed as the "first systematic mapping" of an ideology sometimes called jihadism, the Combating Terrorism Center at West Point has found that Mr. bin Laden and his deputy, Ayman al-Zawahri, have had a relatively minor influence on the movement's intellectual foundation.
And, even if carbon dioxide emissions are causing global warming, and even if global warming is a bad thing (both of which are questionable), U.S. gasoline consumption exerts a relatively minor influence on CO2 levels in the atmosphere.
Land designation had a relatively minor influence, with mining and public areas (without clear tenure or administrative designation) demonstrating a positive correlation with deforestation risk, and indigenous reservations and protected areas demonstrating a comparatively minor positive correlation (Additional file 1 and Additional file 2).
As Kressel and Kressel indicate, "when the evidence is strong, nothing else matters much" and even when the evidence is ambiguous, demographic characteristics of jurors are a relatively minor influence.
Edge effects had a relatively minor influence on the probability of population extinction.
Due to the relatively minor influence of in silico PRL depletion on the overall network (except, most notably, its negative regulation of the immediate downstream hubs IL-13 and MCP-1), further perturbations were performed in order to explore the relative importance of other network elements.> -wrap-foot> Conditional probabilities are given to each of three bins (low, medium and high).
There are multiple published examples that have assessed the importance of rate-smoothing trees for phylogenetic diversity estimates, and they show relatively minor influences of subtle branch length transformations (Cadotte et al., 2008, 2009).
Familiarity with mealworms and individual traits played a relatively minor role, and influenced the willingness to try more than the other acceptability measures.
4) A relatively minor consideration that however influences how people approach the paper: the title promises more than the paper delivers and sets it up for criticism.
A decade ago, a relatively minor investment could yield huge competitive advantage.
