The phrase "a smaller discrepancy" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when comparing differences or variations, indicating that one discrepancy is less significant than another.
Example: "After reviewing the reports, we found a smaller discrepancy in the data that needs to be addressed."
Alternatives: "a minor difference" or "a lesser inconsistency."
The current collapse was investigated and summarized in Fig. 3d, which shows a smaller discrepancy after ALD H2/NH3 plasma pre-treatment.
There is a small difference when comparing EM- or PHASE-derived haplotypes yielding a smaller discrepancy using the EM for INS and MCP1, and a smaller discrepancy using PHASE for IL-6.
On the other hand, because owls have an intermediate biological time, there would be a smaller discrepancy for owls working night-shift or day-shift.
Partly consistently, a study from another laboratory (Lai et al. 2012) showed that decreased rGMV in ACC and mPFC was associated with a smaller discrepancy between systemizing and empathizing (systemizing minus empathizing).
Even a small discrepancy could lead to completely different weather.
Both sides acknowledge that, normally, no one would be concerned about such a small discrepancy.
When she fretted over a small discrepancy on a balance sheet, a colleague mailed her a five-dollar bill to make up the difference.
Mr. Hooper held up the baskets, pleased with his find, then his eyes narrowed on a small discrepancy: one basket was slightly darker than the other.
Yet, rather than by low self-esteem per se, socially anxious people are characterised by a small discrepancy between esteem of self and others, and it may be this reduced tendency to self-favouring that is pivotal to social anxiety.
In an emotionally charged four-and-a-half page letter, Mr. Raju, the chairman and co-founder of one of India's largest outsourcing companies, described to his board on Wednesday how a small discrepancy had mushroomed into one of the biggest scandals in Indian corporate history.
Barzun had heard Berlioz's "Rakoczy March" at a children's concert in Paris when he was four or five, and, nearly forty years later, when putting the finishing touches on his biography of the composer, he noticed that the French and German scores of "Roméo et Juliette" contained a small discrepancy.
