The phrase "a smaller role of" is not correct in standard written English.
It is likely intended to convey a reduced or lesser role in a specific context, but the construction is awkward.
Example: "In the new project, she will take on a smaller role of overseeing the team’s progress."
Alternatives: "a lesser role in" or "a reduced role in".
His basic philosophy is a smaller role of government for the people.
North Americans are thought to be exposed to PBDEs primarily via inadvertent exposure to dust, with a smaller role of diet (e.g., Allen et al. 2007; Lorber 2008; Stapleton et al. 2008).
Examining nonsmoking-related (cause-specific) mortality shed new light on the mortality gender gap and revealed the important role of smoking-related cancers, the continuation of excess mortality among women aged 40 50, and a smaller role of biological factors in the sex difference than was previously estimated.
Reese Witherspoon's 2015 comedy Hot Pursuit featured a small role of a trans prostitute that was criticized as an offensive stereotype.
The Lynchian flavour may also be due to the presence in a small role of Isabella Rossellini (who famously starred in Blue Velvet).
Among the film's many attributes were the launching, in a small role, of Claudia Cardinale and the casting, in a comic part for the first time, of the dramatic Italian actor Vittorio Gassman, as a washed-up professional thief whose nondescript gang bungles a shabbily organised robbery.
In the D38E background, mutation of residues 42 and 44 led to 2 3-fold rate reductions, slightly smaller than in the WT background, suggesting only a small role of these residues in general base positioning.
In conclusion, we determined that there is a small role of TP in the cytotoxicity of 5FU, and that this role could be increased when TP expression was increased.
A correlation important in mosses, that between monoicy and polyploidy, apparently plays a small role: of 20 species with chromosome counts, only one is polyploid, the monoicous Anthoceros punctatus.
The hierarchical amova considering host association resulted in a ΦST = 0.20359 (P < 0.001); however, only 5% of the variation was due to host plants, which indicates a small role of hosts in shaping population structure; 15% of the variation arose among populations within groups, and the remaining 80% arose within populations.
By contrast, we estimated a small role for recruitment of LCNS via acquisition of novel functions over time.
