The phrase "a somewhat significant" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when you want to express that something has a degree of importance or impact, but not overwhelmingly so.
Example: "The study revealed a somewhat significant correlation between the two variables, suggesting a potential relationship worth exploring further."
Alternatives: "a moderately important" or "a fairly substantial".
RIM's BlackBerry still has a somewhat significant Facebook user base of 60.2 million as of December 2012.
The move is a somewhat significant departure, but also a coming of full circle, in the mobile payments space.
The new app also has a somewhat significant oversight: The app doesn't enable uploading of video content, which means that filmmakers and mime artists will have to go elsewhere for an app to show off their trade.
"The larger hope is that it finally reaches people who have been resisting the acknowledgement of this reality, which is that we make a somewhat significant number of mistakes".
Consistent with findings by Thol et al., who reported that SRSF2 mutations were associated with an increased risk of progression to AML [ 18], we observed a somewhat significant impact of the SRSF2 mutation on the progression time to AML transformation (Figs. 2i and 3d).
Before the US election, 52percentt of Americans reported that it was a "very or somewhat significant source of stress" in a poll conducted by the American Psychological Association.
Normally, around a 6.5%percentt drop in a stock price is somewhat significant but probably wouldn't be considered a huge deal.
A somewhat more significant issue arose when some evolutionary theorists in the early 1970s began to argue that the level at which selection truly takes place is that of the gene.
Adding an explicit cost for false positive tests had a somewhat more significant effect on model outputs, although in all cases the direct medical care costs were still slightly lower in the 80% mammography scenario than in the 70% scenario.
Qualitative thresholds were chosen with a consideration of the variation of change across countries and with a consideration that changes would need to be somewhat significant to influence health at the population level.
"I believe that it has to be somewhat significant because the sport has been traditionally about honor," Woods said.
