The phrase "a small bit about" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when introducing a brief overview or summary of a topic or subject matter.
Example: "In this article, I will share a small bit about the history of renewable energy sources."
Alternatives: "a brief overview of" or "a little information on".
They had mostly bootstrapped the project over the last year-and-a-half, taking a small bit of funding (about $120,000) through a German/EU stipend program called "EXIST Gründerstipendium".
"This event puts over 50.5 million in the economy of Ireland and is an important part of the country's financial well-being," she told me as we sipped tea in the upper room of the Museum, Irish Press and International Press circling about, a small bit of calm in the upcoming storm.
About seven days after hatching, the flies are ready to lay and the eggs are most readily collected on a small bit of raw beef, measuring about one-half by one by one inches, which is placed in the cage on a bit of waxed paper.
1 30 p.m. | Updated A small bit of good news about food prices from the Food and Agriculture Organization, a United Nations agency in Rome: The price spiral seen earlier this summer as markets reacted to droughts and other bad news has leveled off, with the agency's closely watched index of global food prices essentially unchanged in August compared with July.
When the Max Planck scientists compared the bonobo genome directly with that of chimps and humans, however, they found that a small bit of our DNA, about 1.6%, is shared with only the bonobo, but not chimpanzees.
Too often, video publishers pick a thumbnail that is misleading or only shows a small bit of what their content is about.
Sony revealed a few small bits about its virtual reality headset and Oculus competitor project Morpheus at E3.
