The phrase "a relatively small branch" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a part of a larger organization or system that is not significant in size or influence compared to others.
Example: "The company has a relatively small branch in the city, focusing on local clients."
Alternatives: "a minor division" or "a modest segment".
Take a look at the 94 directors invited to join what was a relatively small branch of 394 members, a branch that was, according to a 2016 Times analysis, 91% male and 89% white.
Phylogenies of all components showed a relatively small branch for these evolutionarily distant organisms [see Additional file 5 and Additional files 8, 9, 10, 11] although each component belonged to a large Ni-related group.
Compared to other Protostomes used in this study, the annelids A. pompejana and Lumbricus rubellus and the mollusc Argopecten irradians show relatively small branch lengths.
The only deviation from this proportionality would come from the relatively small branching regions of the network.
In each of the un-treated and IM-treated data sets, a relatively small group of transcripts with high maximum branch height and high -log2 p were identified.
Therefore, one should not conclude that mutation rate is low because of a relatively small number of mutations in the internal branches [ 27].
They would have passed the most significant change to the welfare state in decades, Mr. Obama's health care law, and paid a relatively small price for it (the loss of one branch of Congress for two years).
The examples that we have investigated suggest that large sequence datasets may only require a relatively small number of local molecular clocks to reconcile their branch lengths with a time scale.
In this RGC_CA analysis, a relatively small but statistically significant (P < 10-9) excess of reversals in the "old" branch was observed (Table 2).
Although the NES exhibits excellent performance when the sandwich plate is under an excitation with a relatively small amplitude, the efficiency is gradually diminished with the emergence of a stable higher branch and the merging of higher and lower branches.
Whilst our study provides evidence for a phylogenetically and genetically distinct branch of human C. pneumoniae, these inferences are made on a relatively small sample size, taken from two individuals from remote communities in the same state, over two decades ago.
