The phrase "achieve only small" is not correct in standard written English.
It may be intended to express that the results or outcomes are minimal or limited.
Example: "Despite their efforts, they could achieve only small improvements in the project's performance."
Alternatives: "attain merely slight" or "reach just minor".
With each, some patients achieved only small amounts of pain relief, whereas others had close to complete relief.
Smoking cessation for socially disadvantaged groups is a public health priority in most developed countries due to the disproportionate disease burden attributable to tobacco smoking among these groups. 1 2 However, smoking cessation trials which have attempted to target members of socially disadvantaged groups have usually achieved only small sample sizes and low consent rates.
Italian automobile manufacturers gained a reputation for highly engineered sports cars and racing cars, but Italy had no mass market and therefore achieved only small-scale production at that time.
Peter Chelkowski, a professor of Middle Eastern Studies at New York University and the author of books on "Ta'ziyeh" and Iranian culture, said "Ta'ziyeh" accomplishes on a large scale the level of audience participation that Grotowski could achieve only in small groups.
The actual Texas 2009 distribution network and the corresponding optimized network (with 723 ZIP code areas) were estimated to achieve only 34.5%andd 38.3% access in small ZIP code areas, respectively, but reached 88.0%andd 92.5% access overall.
Relative to "best care," the spinal manipulation package with or without exercise achieved only a small benefit at the 12-month follow-up.
IPF is refractory to virtually all current therapeutic options and the recently licensed anti-fibrotic, anti-inflammatory drug pirfenidone achieves only a small treatment benefit at high financial cost (Noble et al., 2011).
Despite the fact that the identification or prediction of many WRKY genes from different species has been previously achieved, only a small number of these have been functionally characterized.
Although the RCN is cheap to build (~ $NZ45 million), it achieves only a small shift in mode share accompanied by a large injury burden, resulting in net benefits in the hundreds of millions of dollars.
In the Sikorski et al trial conducted in London, which achieved only a small reduction in number of visits, provision of information was also stressed; however, they did not find any difference in satisfaction among women in both arms of the trial [ 20].
