The phrase "a small excerpt" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a brief portion or passage taken from a larger text or document.
Example: "In her essay, she included a small excerpt from a famous novel to illustrate her point."
Alternatives: "a brief passage" or "a short extract."
Below is a small excerpt.
Herewith, a small excerpt from her book "Strange Relation: A Memoir of Dementia, Caregiving, and Poetry," published last year.
A small excerpt of that story appears in the pages that follow, and I hope you will find it as charming and disarming as we do.
The difference is that, in this feature, we'll spotlight just a small excerpt to help learners take a close-up look at how various kinds of informational text "work".
As it turns out, that footage was just a small excerpt from a film that wouldn't be completed until 2011, fitting for an epic that begins at the dawn of creation, ends with man's last gasp and includes stopovers in ancient Greece, 17th-century Prague, Dickensian London and outer space, among others.
"Dr Lander shared only a small excerpt of his article with me before publication, and declined to say where the piece would be published or to provide the complete draft of the text," Professor Doudna wrote in an email to The Independent.
Here is a small selection of what he saw, with excerpts from our interview.
Even in that small excerpt of the play, it explains our conflicts today very well I think.
In 2011, the Ecuadorians obtained a few pages from the playbook and tried to enter them into evidence during Chevron's "fraud" trial, but Federal Judge Lewis Kaplan refused to allow any evidence of contamination into the record, including the small excerpt from Chevron's playbook.
Small excerpts have also been recovered on 8mm cine film taken by a fan in Australia, who filmed certain scenes directly from a television screen during repeat showings of various episodes (including some that are intact); the clips from missing episodes range from Episode 4 of The Reign of Terror to Episode 2 of The Faceless Ones.
She played the song two more times, and by the end she had added "Small excerpts!," "Range!," "Your decision/impulse," and "Make it make sense".
