The phrase "address a small proportion" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing a specific issue or topic that only affects a limited segment of a larger group or population.
Example: "The report aims to address a small proportion of the overall challenges faced by the industry."
Alternatives: "tackle a minor segment" or "focus on a limited fraction".
Joint activity and procurement addresses only a small proportion of expenditure.
While the threat to Australia from Axis raiders was "anticipated and addressed", only a small proportion of the Axis ships and submarines which attacked Australia were successfully located or engaged.
Official data were limited, frequently irregular, often palpably incorrect and addressed only a small proportion of human resources [ 25].
Increasing device diversity/fragmentation means developers choosing to target the top 10 Android devices are addressing a smaller proportion of overall users (although the overall size of the Android pie is growing).
At the end of the 1980s, Sherman et al. (1989) argued that a small proportion of addresses in a city were the sites of most crime, and that focusing police resources on these high-crime addresses would be beneficial for crime prevention.
Because only a small proportion of addresses are demarcated, interpolation occurs frequently.
As this appeared to be a small proportion we addressed this issue by analyzing the benchmark set by previous genome-wide experiments: Misson et al. (2005) [ 9], Morcuende et al. (2006) [ 10], Muller et al. (2007) [ 11], and Nilsson et al. (2010) [ 12] each identified 14%, 33 %, 3, and 8% of the 84 significandly responsive genes, respectively.
Some expressed fear that the site's troubles were a plot to prevent further signatures, while others claimed that a small proportion of signatures from addresses listed as overseas – including one from "North Korea" – meant that the petition had been "hijacked by bots" and that "the vast majority of signatures were actually fake".
Only a small proportion of this work directly addresses the issues faced in the pharmaceutical sector.
Others claimed that a small proportion of signatures from overseas IP addresses – including one from North Korea – meant the petition had been hijacked by bots.
