The phrase "a small but enduring" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something that may be minor in size or impact but has lasting significance or presence.
Example: "The project received a small but enduring amount of support from the community, which helped it thrive over the years."
Alternatives: "a modest yet lasting" or "a slight but persistent".
Halley's conception of the subterranean realm spawned a recurring theme in science fiction (Jules Verne, Edgar Rice Burroughs, and L. Frank Baum all set novels inside the earth), as well as a small but enduring strain of true believers.
"Not infrequently, I'd pick up the phone," he told me, "and someone would say, 'I'd like to tell the Speaker to go straight to hell.' And I'd say, 'Well, I'll be sure to get him the message.' ") Regardless of how they choose to do so, most people who contact Congress have legitimate concerns — but, as any staffer can tell you, there is a small but enduring subgroup of wiseacres and crackpots.
There was however a small but enduring effect on school achievement.
By the simple expedient of only emerging in public once a decade, Mike Scott has managed to chisel himself a small but enduring niche in the cobwebby vault of the rock biz.
The outcome of the fighting in Mali carries major implications not only for France, but also for the Obama administration, which is worried that Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb and other militant groups could retain a smaller but enduring haven in remote mountain redoubts in the Malian desert.
One more strike from Rodriguez, and the Mets would have expunged several small but enduring annoyances regarding their inept road record.
Buttoned-up Americans and more laissez-faire Europeans alike find that odd.At once familial and national, the panto also appeals to the regional identities that have proved strikingly enduring on a small, but crowded, island.
The Andalusian, a high-stepping spirited horse, and the small but enduring Barb produced the Lipizzaner, which was named after the stud farm founded near Trieste, Italy, in 1580.
Kids spend much of their day in front of television and computer screens, too often losing sight of the small but enduring pleasures found in nature and in their interactions with other people.
As it happened, not quite 18 months later, he would be dead, having created a small but memorable body of work that has made him an enduring icon.
But the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, one of the world's most brutal and enduring separatist groups, had a small but effective navy it used in suicide missions and to supply weapons to its fighters.
