The phrase "a very small player" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe someone or something that has a minor role or influence in a particular context, such as a market or industry.
Example: "In the competitive tech industry, our startup is just a very small player compared to the giants like Apple and Google."
Alternatives: "a minor participant" or "a little player".
"There's a front-cover story every other month about China buying up the world, but China is still a very small player in international M.&A.," he said, referring to mergers and acquisitions.
It was content to remain a very small player for four years, learning the ropes.
There are 41 HD channels available in the UK and so the BBC is a very small player in the HD market.
Home makes Windows Phone even more redundant than it already is (and in smartphone marketshare terms it's a very small player indeed).
"It's a hot area and Viador will do farily well, but there's a lot of competition and they're a very small player," asserts analyst Paul Bard of Renaissance Capital.
What's probably most significant is the fact that a very small player like Yhd beat out all the big companies to receive the first license, which probably owed at least partly to its Wal-Mart connections.
He called it "a pretty normal market evolution" in which "very small players will probably go away, while small to mid-sized companies will be acquired by others or go into specific niche markets where they can specialize".
These tactics are often framed in moral and ethical terms, and they are being initiated by even very small players.
There's every chance these taxation measures will help out the very small players in Australia's craft beer industry, the ones who are yet to succumb to the siren song of Coca Cola.
Of 32 carriers whose filings were available as of late Friday, only four very small players had indicated that they would match the 14.9% average decrease that Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi called for this month.
"There were a very small minority of players that did things I am sure they regret," Thompson says.
