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The phrase "a small inkling of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when you want to express a slight or vague idea or understanding of something.
Example: "After the meeting, I had a small inkling of what the project might entail, but I still needed more information."
Alternatives: "a faint idea of" or "a slight sense of".
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He explained the episode, and countless others in his novels, as theology and sacrament, something that gave a small inkling of what the love of God was like.
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That is a significant change and one that the first IPCC assessment report in 1990 had little inkling of.
Winton recalls swimming as a boy in "a shoal of salmon beneath a halo of diving birds", noting that it was "hard for even the most dull-witted boy to ignore the inkling that you're a small part of a larger process".
It was Planck himself who first had an inkling of a smallest possible size.
It's too large a flaw, and a little imagination can recover an inkling of the original effect.
The Guggenheim show gives us an inkling of af Klint's parallel lives, following "The Ten Largest" bombshell with a small display of conventional but solid portraits, watercolors of plants and one landscape painting, primarily from the 1890s.
IT IS not quite a trend, more an inkling of change.
"It is just a feel, just an inkling of where he is at in his life," said the Reds boss.
Most people by now may recall a moment of clarity, an inkling of doom.
"By then, I had a strong inkling of why I would want to go there," he said with a laugh.
Was this a first inkling of moderation or merely his legendary pragmatism in action?
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