The phrase "a small abrupt" is not correct in written English.
It seems to be a combination of two adjectives that do not work together in this context. An example could be: "There was a small abrupt change in the weather."
Alternatives: "a slight sudden" or "a minor abrupt".
— The movement is small, abrupt and oddly graceful for an act of clumsiness.
People would go to the reading room just to have a glimpse of the famous man at his ordinary weekday duties: beaky-faced, making small, abrupt, nervous movements.
There were exceptions: the remorseless brightness and hard geometry of Boulez's "Incise," and "The Art of Touching the Keyboard" by Judith Weir with its small, abrupt gestures and active silences.
It is possible that the rate of current is influenced by the small, abrupt decrease in diameter just proximal to the inferred band of channels (Fig. 5).
With contraception control, the population declines continuously, whereas with lethal control it reaches a small size after abrupt decreasing and increasing repeatedly.
Furthermore, at such a small length scale, the abrupt interface between two materials is unrealistic and the non-locality of the dielectric function has to be considered [117].
Because FIR places a smaller penalty on abrupt rate changes than do previous models, it can confine an abrupt change close to where it occurred on the tree.
In [3], by dynamically changing its model to adapt to the target concept, M_ID4 algorithm has a good performance of accuracy and adaptability in a small number of training samples abrupt concept drift.
Beaugrand et al. [64] suggest the existence of a critical thermal boundary, around 10°C, where a small increase in temperature triggers abrupt ecosystem shifts seen across multiple trophic levels.
