The phrase "a small colonisation" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a minor or limited act of colonization, whether in a historical, biological, or metaphorical context.
Example: "The researchers observed a small colonisation of bacteria in the petri dish, indicating the beginning of microbial growth."
Alternatives: "a minor colonization" or "a limited colonization."
For Mangakāhia and for other Māori in the movement, I think suffrage was just a small part of removing colonisation from their lives and returning to us the democratic power that we always had.
The low allelic diversity across loci and population bottleneck in P. downsi is further evidence for a small effective population size upon initial colonisation.
This sustained shrinking of the earnings pool, and its counterpart, the colonisation of the proceeds of growth by a small financial and business elite, has been in part the result of the rise in the supply of global labour.
In four other invasive insect species, the dates of colonisation on each island suggest a wind-mediated southeast to northwest direction of colonisation across the islands [ 57].
It was in the early 1950s that a small number of Algerian writers decided that one of the effects of colonisation was that the French language belonged to them as much as it belonged to France.
Evans et al [ 159] found a small benefit from prolonged antibiotic use to interrupt the cycle of bacterial colonisation, inflammatory change and progressive lung damage, but also advocated further, more powerful trials.
Multivariate analysis of risk factors for MRSA colonisation in residents showed that the intervention was associated with a small but significant increase in prevalence of MRSA (p=0.02, logistic regression) (table 3).
A small paediatric randomised control trial did not find any significant differences in rates of colonisation, pneumonia or sepsis [ 66].
Taiwan may be a small island, but its eating habits have been shaped by a fascinating history of settlement, colonisation and immigration.
Introduction: Candida sp. colonisation in respiratory tract is frequent after lung transplantation (LT), but only a small proportion of lung recipients develop an invasive candida infection (1).
