The phrase "a relatively small degree" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the extent or level of something that is not significant or large in comparison to other factors.
Example: "The changes in temperature had a relatively small degree of impact on the overall results of the experiment."
Alternatives: "a minor extent" or "a limited degree".
Even a relatively small degree of systemic BP reduction could cause a significant risk of hypoperfusion and ischemia [12].
Optimisation results for the membrane column indicate the benefits of a relatively small degree of retentate reflux, but negligible benefit of any retentate recycle to the feed line.
Comparatively, the LSMO on the sapphire substrate experienced a relatively small degree of contrast changes, which cause the film structure to be more homogeneous than that on the In2O3 epitaxy.
One is a relatively smooth pattern of generally high elemental abundances (green lines in Figure 3) that reflects a relatively small degree of DMM melting without much affect from the elements derived by fluid in the region (A) of Figure 2b.
Ho636 and Hv648 show evidence for a relatively small degree of recombination.
The VN1203-PB1F2del strain condition had the smallest degree of overlap at the transcriptomic (69.41%) level, and a relatively small degree at the proteomic (87.95%) levels.
Longer alkyl groups at the terminus of the EO were found to promote the solubility compared to the hydroxyl terminated material, but to a relatively smaller degree compared with the methyl group.
Consistent with the relatively small degree of overlap between the microarray platforms (< = 8%, see the Data Processing section in the Text S1 for details), the representative models developed from the two independent datasets have no genes in common.
We performed artificial selection for the outward phenotype for ten generations, and yet we were unable to obtain the severe outward type despite obtaining the outward type with relatively small degree of modifications.
Unfortunately the relatively small degree of legitimate biological differential expression between the pre-and post-treatment tumour biopsies provided little opportunity to assess the relative performance of UHRR and pooled batch calibrators on the consistency of reported differentially expressed probes.
In cases where this aspect has been ignored, leading to relatively small degrees of utilization, it can be understood as an engineering mismatch between installed power, converted energy, and the fundamental physics of the renewable energy sources.
