The phrase "adopt a little" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when suggesting to take on or embrace a small amount of something, such as an idea, behavior, or practice.
Example: "In order to improve our teamwork, I think we should adopt a little more flexibility in our schedules."
Alternatives: "embrace a bit" or "take on a small amount".
Sentimental Journey (1946) was a melodrama about a Broadway couple (John Payne and Maureen O'Hara) who adopt a little girl, only for the mother to pass away.
In Linda De Haan and Stern Nijland's King and King two princes get married while in the sequel King and King and Family they adopt a little girl.
Rather than treat these creatures as relics, might we learn something from their methods, take a page out of their handbooks, adopt a little of that romantic Victorian approach in an effort to return to ourselves?
"We've all spent a lot of time," Mr. Allison said, "developing a template for how a big station can adopt a little one, keeping local character alive while achieving economies of scale through shared infrastructure".
The movie further creates a kind of platonic love triangle, or care triangle, with Magda's physician, Julián (Asier Etxeandia), who has relationship issues of his own, and is himself brooding over whether to adopt a little girl from Siberia.
After having difficulty conceiving a child, he and his wife decided to adopt a little boy.
In his unending quest to get surgeons to adopt a little-known generic drug to save hemorrhaging patients, a British doctor has produced a new medical-education tool: a manga comic.
We've adopted a little bit of Anglo stuff here.
I'm the Seabrook who recently adopted a little girl from Haiti.
Windrow's companion owl adventures began in 1977 when he adopted a little owl, Athene noctua, whom he named Wellington.
In 1956, they adopted a little girl, Maria; her parents, close friends of theirs, had both died suddenly.
