The phrase "a smaller release" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a version or edition of a product, software, or any other item that is less extensive or has fewer features than a previous version.
Example: "The company announced a smaller release of their software, focusing on essential features rather than additional enhancements."
Alternatives: "a reduced version" or "a limited release".
As I write in the article, the study predicts a smaller release of radioactive material than earlier ones did and anticipates a more ample warning time for people in the surrounding area, allowing for a sweeping evacuation.
Figure 3 shows that addition of 10 mM K+ caused a smaller release of ATP (about 300 RLU or ~0.3 pmol ATP/min per mg of protein) than exposure to higher K+ concentrations, and it made little difference whether or not GABA was also present.
Akira swiftly became midnight-movie fodder in the US, on a small release through Streamline Entertainment.
Presumably you didn't want Channel Orange to be a small release.
When Paul Beatty's The Sellout was first published in America in 2015, it was a small release.
Some agents, like the smallpox virus, are highly contagious and could spread widely from a small release.
That's a terrific tally so far for such a small release and $10m looks easily within the movie's reach as it expands into more sites, with $20m well within its sights.
In a short while, possibly at some instant in his slow drive back up the lake, he knew he would feel a small release, an unburdening, a sensation of events being completed, so that over time he would think less and less about it until it all seemed, upon reflection, to be almost perfect.
The two cases described in the paper include an electrolyzer, in which a small release occurs, leading potentially to some damage to the enclosure, and a reformer, in which the consequences are potentially more serious.
From Niantic's standpoint, though, this is just about as much bang-for-their-buck as they can get out of a small release of new Pokémon during the cold winter months.
The results of the stability test showed that the 99mTc-cefprozil is stable for 24 h at 37°C which resulted in a small release of radioactivity of 17.0% ± 0.3% (n = 3 experiments) from the 99mTc-cefprozil, as determined by paper chromatography.
