The phrase "a very small rate" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing a minimal or insignificant percentage or amount in various contexts, such as finance, statistics, or general comparisons.
Example: "The interest on the savings account is set at a very small rate, making it less appealing for long-term investments."
Alternatives: "a minimal rate" or "an insignificant rate".
The federal Small Business Administration has issued more than 15,000 applications for low-interest loans, but has received back only 1,300 requests, "a very small rate of return," said Cynthia Speed, a spokeswoman for the agency.
"Federal courts now grant relief at a very small rate — far smaller than they would if they had the power to correct significant constitutional violations," Professor Dow said, "but Congress has already deprived federal courts of their power to grant relief in most cases, even where the court believes that a significant error has occurred".
These are expected to have a very small rate coefficient for self-annihilation of (langle sigma vrangle simeq3times10^{-26}mbox { cm}^{3}mbox { s}^{-1}).
Moreover, most of the modifications revealed by AFLP occurred to a greater degree immediately after hybridization, especially concerning sequences from rye origin, compared to the continuous variation events that occurred at a very small rate following chromosome duplication [18].
In cancer cells, Bcl-2 inhibits over-expressed BH3 molecule such as Bid, which can directly activate Bax with a very small rate constant [7], [16], and thus through the Bid-Bcl-2-Bax loop stochastic Bax activation is generated.
Morphometric analysis of the lung vasculature showed a very small rate of intimal remodeling and plexiform lesions were not remarkable among semaxanib-treated animals.
Moreover, given the very small rate of patients who are expected to have a substantial DFS gain (16 vs 6% pCRs), a much larger study population would be required to statistically detect such a gain.
It is based on the very high affinity of GDP to RF3 compared to that of GTP, on the very small rate of exchange of GDP on free RF3, on the rapid rate of exchange of ribosome bound RF3GDP in the presence of RF1 or RF2, on the comparatively rapid turnover of RF3 in vivo, and on the non-negligible concentration of GDP in the living bacterial cell (Zavialov et al. 2001; 2002; Moras et al. 2005).
Existing investigations determining penetration depths are related to a very small range of flow rates and therefore show an underestimation of the penetration depth being applied to the casing flow of impulse turbines, which are generally operated at higher flow rates.
Therefore, we predicted only a very small rise in deposit rates -- primarily savings and certificates of deposit (CDs).
We assume a very small alarm rate, then all bins with predicted rates less than this alarm rate where an earthquake occurs are counted and give the value ϑ in Table 2. Similarly, all bins with predicted rates greater than this alarm rate where an earthquake occurs are counted and give the value γ in Table 2. Similar reasoning holds for ζ and ω.
