The phrase "a small extent and" is not correct and does not form a complete thought in written English.
It may be used in contexts where you are discussing the degree or level of something, but it needs to be part of a complete sentence.
Example: "The changes made to the project were effective to a small extent and did not fully address the issues."
Alternatives: "to a limited degree" or "to a minor extent."
At recall, Mahalik et al. reported that in both populations, overbite increased to a small extent and overjet increased in the surgical group by 10 20%[19]].
Consequently, adding high amounts of residues, such as straw, may increase SOM to only a small extent, and an alternative use of the residues may be justified.
However, recent research shows that in a deep and saline environment, density effects induced by both temperature (to a small extent) and particularly salt concentration can play a major role in the predicted groundwater flow pathways.
The survival was only affected to a small extent and only at the early stage of phagocytosis.
Some used other drugs as well, but only to a small extent and not regularly.
Consequently, direct costs are only considered to a small extent and indirect costs of older ages remain completely excluded.
Occurrence of two or more nt mismatches within the probe may decrease hybridization efficiency, but to a smaller extent, and this effect varied widely among the probes.
Three previous studies [ 20, 33, 34] suggested that crossbred populations show a smaller extent and rapider decay of LD by distance as well as smaller haplotype block size than pure lines.
With a lower concentration of penicillin G (0.1 mM), the fluorescence signal of the labelled V216C mutant also increases instantaneously (but to a smaller extent) and then decreases gradually.
In CD measurements, oxyC4 reduced the BSA α-helix content to a smaller extent and the low-α-helicity state lasted over a shorter range of surfactant concentration (Table 3).
Strength of motivation appears to be a dynamic entity, changing primarily with age and maturity and to a small extent with gender and experience.
