The phrase "a small potential for" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the likelihood or possibility of something occurring, typically in a context where the potential is limited or minimal.
Example: "There is a small potential for rain tomorrow, so you might want to carry an umbrella just in case."
Alternatives: "a slight chance of" or "a limited possibility for".
In Badenweiler and Bürchau, low mineralisation and maximum sulphate equilibrium temperatures of about 60 80 °C indicate a small potential for water rock interaction only (Rolker et al. 2015).
Irbesartan is an ARB, characterized by a high bioavailability, a long duration of action, and a small potential for pharmacological interactions [ 23].
Visual inspection showed very little individual admixture within each self-identified ethnic group, indicating a small potential for confounding because of population stratification.
Approximately one of six clinically recognised pregnancies result in spontaneous abortion 5 6 and identification of even a small potential for prevention may have significant impact for public health.
14 15 It is possible that boys did not change their physical activity level as much as girls because of higher baseline values and, consequently, had a smaller potential for change.
However, it is not a given that the results would be better today, as medical innovations sometimes prove harmful 29 and as reducing risk factor thresholds means treating people at lower risk who have a smaller potential for benefit but the same risk of harm.
A small potential glimmer for the techies: If the House does manage to pass smaller, bite-sized immigration fixes, high-skill immigration reform could find itself decoupled from larger immigration reform.
This thus results in a very small potential for bias in the aggregated measures.
Second, we should strive to emphasize what Streat and coworkers [ 15] termed, 'the large risk of unacceptable badness', rather than a vanishingly small potential for benefit.
The aim to prevent a treatable condition was also unlike other 'preventive' studies, for example, vaccine trials, in that those are normally long-term population studies engaging large numbers of participants with a quite small potential for detectable failure overall.
The results demonstrate that there is a net but small potential for CO2 emissions reduction; assuming that such CCU plants are constructed in Europe to meet the MeOH demand growth and the quantities that are currently imported, the net CO2 emissions reduction could be of 2.71 MtCO2.71.
