The phrase "a small tranche" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in financial contexts to refer to a portion or segment of a larger amount, often related to investments or funding.
Example: "The company decided to allocate a small tranche of its budget to research and development."
Alternatives: "a minor portion" or "a limited segment".
"Umwelt stresses an organism's self-centered, subjective world, which represents only a small tranche of all available worlds," de Waal explains.
Many plant miRNA gene families have been identified via sequencing and bioinformatic analysis, but, to date, only a small tranche of these have been functionally characterized due to a lack of effective forward or reverse genetic tools.
Although courts have ordered the authorities to demarcate land for the Guarani, little progress has been made since the 1990s when a small tranche of land was returned to them – and the suicide rate temporarily declined.
Accepting this, and moving on from the idea that helping a small tranche of wealthy Londoners onto the housing ladder is the only worthwhile focus is the sensible thing to do.
With much less disruption to the economies of highly indebted poor countries that the measure is supposed to help, the IMF could issue a small tranche of SDRs which would have no measurable inflationary impact.While learned economists may prognosticate about how gold is outdated as a store of value, it is indisputably an asset of choice for poor people in developing and developed countries.
Once a bond issue has been launched, it is easier to sell a smaller tranche of it by auction, says Chris Tuffey at Credit Suisse.
The electronic archive is believed to emanate from the same dissident US army intelligence analyst who earlier this year is alleged to have leaked a smaller tranche of 90,000 logs chronicling bloody encounters and civilian killings in the Afghan war.
But, as the TUC's Cuts Watch initiative reveals, even the first and relatively small tranche of cuts announced two weeks ago are biting into core services and seem likely to affect the most vulnerable.
Medical tourists have come to represent a small but revealing new tranche of the worldwide middle class, empowered to arbitrage inefficiencies created where a previous era's institutions of political economy -- namely insurance companies and national regulatory régimes -- had failed to keep up with a new era's interconnectedness.
Cuba has agreed to allow the European Union to open a business school in Havana and extend a small but politically significant first tranche of $2.5 million in microcredits to the emerging private economy.
Only a small fraction has ever been posted on WikiLeaks, but the initial tranche served as the site's foundation, and Assange was able to say, "We have received over one million documents from thirteen countries".
