The phrase "although there were small" is not correct and feels incomplete in written English.
It can be used in a context where you want to introduce a contrast or exception regarding something that was small, but it needs to be followed by a noun or a complete thought.
Example: "Although there were small challenges, we managed to complete the project on time."
Alternatives: "even though there were minor" or "despite the small".
Although there were small pockets of support for Cruz, the moment it became clear that he would not endorse Trump he lost the room expelled from Trump's Party.
They found weak evidence that it may be passed on via same-sex sexual practises, although there were small numbers of people in these demographics in this study, so the authors report that it's hard to draw conclusions.
This indicates that the number of learners who had a good understanding of the problem structure increased, although there were small numbers of learners who were still confused.
Core GPA was not affected immediately after the closures, although there were small negative effects three and four years post-closures for students from closed schools who had been in the grades 3-5 in the announcement year (2012-13).
Results showed that useable local estimates can be obtained from absolute global solar radiation and adjusted mean daily maximum and minimum temperatures although there were small amounts of bias.
The results were comparable with those measured by a quasi-static method using a vibrating sample magnetometer, although there were small discrepancies in hysteresis parameters suggesting the time-dependence of the magnetic properties.
Although there were smaller online banks offering the same rate or a little more, ING Direct had the resources to pay for a huge national advertising campaign featuring a distinctive orange ball.
Although there were small-scale Japanese nuclear accidents in the 1990s (Igarashi et al. 1999a, 2000; Komura et al. 2000), they did not cause significant marks in the present time series of monthly 90Sr and 137Cs depositions.
Meanwhile, in Germany, more than 50,000 activists took to the streets in protest, but, so far, there has been no organized outcry here in the U.S. At the Left Forum in New York, the issue was barely addressed in the opening plenary although there were smaller panels added/.
The population is predominantly Roman Catholic, although there are small Calvinist parishes in Cher département, at Bourges and Sancerre.
Most Asian Jews now live in Israel, although there are small Jewish communities in various other areas of the continent.
