The phrase "a very small relationship" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a minimal or insignificant connection between two entities or concepts.
Example: "The study found that there is a very small relationship between the two variables, suggesting that they do not significantly influence each other."
Alternatives: "a minor connection" or "a negligible relationship".
A: Very small quantities, and we stopped.
Detailed studies of both MRCGP and MRCP UK) suggest that differences in performance of BME candidates are unlikely to be due to bias on the part of clinical examiners, in part because differences also exist for MCQ assessments, and because marks awarded seem to show only very small relationships to ethnicity of examiner interacting with ethnicity of candidates [ 10, 28, 29].
Corrections for self-heating of the OP infra-red gas analyser had a very small effect on these relationships.
"Let's not see the discussion about customs, which is only a very small part of the overall relationship, out of context," she said.
"What Mitch will tell you is that, maybe with the exception of a few — and that is a very small few — I have a fantastic relationship with the people in the Senate, and with the people in Congress," Trump said.
We have a very small amount of data concerning the relationship between the AF and OPG/TRAIL system.
Hence, changes in health, as measured by the four health variables, explain only a very small part of the curvilinear age-giving relationship.
In variable-centred interactions and multiple-group methods, child-teacher relationship quality showed a very small protective-reactive effect, conferring greater benefits for children facing low-adversity than high-adversity.
However this only examines a very small part of each genelist and the relationship of alterations in gene expression extends over a much more substantial proportion of the genes surveyed: in addition the simple analysis above does not take direction of change in gene expression into account.
