The phrase "a relatively modest impact" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the effects or consequences of an action, event, or phenomenon that are not significant or large in scale.
Example: "The new policy resulted in a relatively modest impact on employee productivity, with only slight improvements observed."
Alternatives: "a somewhat limited effect" or "a fairly minor influence."
The findings suggest that research design has a relatively modest impact on assessing the relative betweenness of nodes, and that a betweenness measure based on egocentric network data could be a reliable substitute for Freeman's betweenness measure when it is not practical to collect complete network data.
"There are a lot of states doing all types of tax increases, and we think this one has a relatively modest impact".
He estimated the new first-class fares would have a "relatively modest" impact on revenue, because full-fare first-class domestic passengers made up less than 1percentt of the carrier's total passengers.
The crisis also had a relatively modest impact on the Austrian labor market.
Even if financial incentives were found to significantly improve adherence to process measures, recent work suggests that adherence to "best practices" has only a relatively modest impact on risk-adjusted 30-day mortality rates for patients with acute myocardial infarctions (0.6%), heart failure (0.1%) and pneumonia (0.1%) [ 43].
As an example, consider our relatively modest impact, as an organization, on the international trials-based debate about the extent of nodal dissection for gastric cancer that has occurred over the past 20 years.
As opposed to the relatively modest impact of hormonal and lifestyle risk factors, a mutation in one of these two genes confers a four- to eightfold increase in the lifetime risk of breast cancer [ 2, 3].
Cholesteryl ester transfer protein (CETP), which is detectable at Taq1, was noted to have relatively modest impact on HDL-concentrations among Saudis [12].
The relatively modest impact of cancer on psychological distress and general QOL is notable, given the attention that has been focused on these issues in cancer patients [39].
One explanation for the relatively modest impact of most TF deletions on the yeast transcriptome is that the assays were not performed under conditions that activate the TF.
