The phrase "a small spread" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where you are referring to a minor difference or variation, often in statistics, finance, or food.
Example: "The analysis showed a small spread in the data, indicating minimal variation among the results."
Alternatives: "a narrow range" or "a slight difference."
Begin by thinking of a small spread.
You need only assemble a small spread and call a few friends.
Both Jack and Ennis claimed to be saving money for a small spread; in Ennis's case that meant a tobacco can with two five-dollar bills inside.
The pack headed to a $3.3 million bachelor loft at 132 Duane Street, where they were greeted by another Elliman broker, Francine Hunter McGivern, and a small spread.
Previously published results for the Cu crystal orientation reveal that Copper-oriented crystals, 1̄, exhibit a net rotation, but only a small spread of orientations develops during rolling; these results are readily rationalized using the equivalent slip system method.
The conclusions in each case are the same: a spread in phase has a simple weakening effect, while a small spread in frequency affects the response in the same way as light damping.
"The free market is the best system by which to solve the air service situation," said Senator Charles Grassley, who then demanded to know what the industry intended to do for Iowa, a state with a small, spread-out population that's not showing any signs of getting larger.
The bush, or Sierra evergreen, chinquapin (Castanopsis sempervirens) is a small, spreading mountain shrub of western North America.
But it's still there, a worthy adversary, having already escaped its destiny as a hedge and grown into a small, spreading tree.
While Figure7b with Δ ULA = 2 Δ max ULA shows an identical reconstruction result compared to Figure7a, increasing the undersampling by factor three causes a small spreading of the point spread function of the target at along-track position y=-0.2 m as depicted in Figure7c.
It grows as a small spreading shrub to 2 m (7 ft) high and has prickly leaves and yellow composite flower heads, called inflorescences, composed of 50 to 60 individual yellow flowers.
