The phrase "a small but sizeable" is not correct in standard English usage due to the contradictory nature of "small" and "sizeable." It could be used in a context where you want to emphasize that something is small in one aspect but significant in another, though it may confuse readers.
Example: "The donation was a small but sizeable contribution to the charity's overall fundraising efforts."
Alternatives: "a modest yet significant" or "a minor but substantial".
In this study, ABC + Lactate classification identified a large group of patients with good long-term prognosis, and a smaller but sizeable group of patients with almost universally poor outcome (Fig. 4).
Three further retailers – Waitrose, Somerfield (formerly Gateway), and the Co-operative, also known regionally as Anglia Regional Co-op – had a smaller but sizeable combined market share of 11.9% (Defra, 2008).
The model produced a similar range of estimates (27 54%) for the number of occupants exposed to HCHO levels exceeding an acute standard and a smaller but sizeable fraction (4 9%) exposed to CO concentrations that exceed acute CO standards.
From an administration perspective, some patients might prefer infrequent steroid injections with a sizeable risk of cataract, and a small, but existent, risk of glaucoma, to frequent anti-VEGF injections, even if the potential gain may not be fully comparable.
Cotransfection of MC2R resulted in a small but significant BRET signal in the case of the parallel homodimeric form of MRAP, but a sizeable increase in BRET signal in the case of the antiparallel form.
Large numbers in some Jewish communities Trier, Metz, and Regensburg, for example—evidently were baptized, as were smaller but sizeable numbers of the Jews of Mainz and elsewhere, and the shock of these conversions haunted the self-consciousness of Ashkenazic Jewry throughout the decades that followed.
Each has involved combining regions with small populations, but sizeable indigenous groups, such as Koryaks, Komi-Permyaks, Evenks, and Buryats into majority-Russian territories.
There is half a small lobster and a sizeable crab claw, a couple of fat scallops still clinging to the shell, and a brace of langoustine.
The countrys largest bank, Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, and its third largest, China Construction Bank, made smaller but still sizeable bets on U.S. securities last year: $25.6 billion and $39.3 billion, respectively.
The multichild families data set used for the sibling-fixed effects estimations is smaller, but still sizeable, containing about 12,000 pupils.
