The phrase "a result of smaller" is not correct and lacks clarity in written English.
It may be intended to describe something that is caused by smaller factors or elements, but it needs additional context to be meaningful.
Example: "The changes in the ecosystem were a result of smaller environmental factors that had been overlooked."
Alternatives: "due to lesser" or "as a consequence of smaller".
But as it has grown wealthier, Hastings has shrunk, mostly as a result of smaller families.
Specialist species face higher extinction risks as a result of smaller, isolated populations with reduced gene flow.
Pop music has been a valuable part of film for years, but television, as a result of smaller budgets and the repetitious nature of a series mentality, tended to make its own music theme songs, composed scores.
Those longer-term adjustments are mostly a result of smaller projected outlays for the entitlement programs of Social Security, Medicaid and Medicare, as well as smaller interest payments on the debt.
(It also found a much larger boost from the debates as a whole than Gallup -- an average net favorability increase of 5.9percentt from before Debate No. 1 to after Debate No. 3). The bigger shifts could be a result of smaller sample size, as Quinnipiac's surveys included several hundred independents, while Gallup surveyed more than 1,800 at each time period for almost all candidates.
The other three entities have been fined half the maximum — as a result of smaller roles in the violation, the DPPS said.
Ferroelectric materials have spontaneous polarization as a result of small shifts of negative and positive charges within the material.
The challenge is especially great when risk characteristics can change dramatically as a result of small changes in the determinants of the securities' price.
Since then, the virus has occasionally shown up in wild animals, but these were considered a result of small-scale spillovers from dog populations.
