The phrase "a smaller but sizeable" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something that, while not large, is still significant or considerable in size or impact.
Example: "The company reported a smaller but sizeable increase in profits this quarter compared to last."
Alternatives: "a modest yet substantial" or "a minor but considerable".
In this study, ABC + Lactate classification identified a large group of patients with good long-term prognosis, and a smaller but sizeable group of patients with almost universally poor outcome (Fig. 4).
The model produced a similar range of estimates (27 54%) for the number of occupants exposed to HCHO levels exceeding an acute standard and a smaller but sizeable fraction (4 9%) exposed to CO concentrations that exceed acute CO standards.
Three further retailers – Waitrose, Somerfield (formerly Gateway), and the Co-operative, also known regionally as Anglia Regional Co-op – had a smaller but sizeable combined market share of 11.9% (Defra, 2008).
Findings are notable for a very low prevalence of HIV and other STIs and for a small but sizeable proportion of incoming ANA recruits having engaged in sexual and drug use risk behaviors.
Large numbers in some Jewish communities Trier, Metz, and Regensburg, for example—evidently were baptized, as were smaller but sizeable numbers of the Jews of Mainz and elsewhere, and the shock of these conversions haunted the self-consciousness of Ashkenazic Jewry throughout the decades that followed.
From an administration perspective, some patients might prefer infrequent steroid injections with a sizeable risk of cataract, and a small, but existent, risk of glaucoma, to frequent anti-VEGF injections, even if the potential gain may not be fully comparable.
Cotransfection of MC2R resulted in a small but significant BRET signal in the case of the parallel homodimeric form of MRAP, but a sizeable increase in BRET signal in the case of the antiparallel form.
Two welcome touches were a small but well-chosen selection of Spanish cheeses, some of them barely known to most Americans, and a sizeable list of Spanish wines, from $20, with many first rate vintages to choose among.
The countrys largest bank, Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, and its third largest, China Construction Bank, made smaller but still sizeable bets on U.S. securities last year: $25.6 billion and $39.3 billion, respectively.
The multichild families data set used for the sibling-fixed effects estimations is smaller, but still sizeable, containing about 12,000 pupils.
Each has involved combining regions with small populations, but sizeable indigenous groups, such as Koryaks, Komi-Permyaks, Evenks, and Buryats into majority-Russian territories.
