The phrase "and noted only a" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a specific observation or detail that was acknowledged or recorded, often in a formal or academic context.
Example: "The researcher conducted the experiment and noted only a slight change in the results."
Alternatives: "and observed merely a" or "and recorded just a".
And while Reck noted only a few years ago, European investors were often not thinking big enough, that's something that's changing quickly these days.
Wells Fargo officials have consistently declined interviews on the subject and noted only that their loans account for a small fraction of the nation's total mortgage lending.
Although 109 tribes are recognized in California, in the text, they are faceless and noted only by red square dots on a map.
Lithium treatment is also associated with weight gain (Grandjean and Aubry 2009b); however, we noted only a small, nonsignificant association between urinary lithium concentration and BMI in our study population.
The system continued to organize, and several hours later, the NHC noted only a slight increase would suffice for the development of a tropical cyclone.
Interestingly, this study also identified CR2 as uc.108 near HOXD and, in agreement to our observation, noted only a "core" conserved region in fish, suggesting that additional parts of the ultraconserved region were innovations after the common ancestor with fish.
Iavicoli and Carelli note only a slight difference in Figure 2 between comparisons of adjusted and unadjusted urinary Hg levels at year 7; in our article we explained the higher variability (not bias) in the unadjusted values.
So why don't we let it go and note only that Charlie spends a lot of time with the ghost of his younger brother, Sam Charlie Tahann).
Here I note only a few of his basic claims.
The occurrence of the metabolic syndrome reaches peak levels in the 6th decade for men and the 7th decade for women, and a decline is noted only in the 8th decade for men and for some women in different ethnic groups (3).
