The phrase "are a small share" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the proportion or percentage of a particular group or category in relation to a whole.
Example: "In the recent survey, those who preferred option A are a small share of the total respondents."
Alternatives: "constitute a minor portion" or "represent a small fraction".
Academic visitors are a small share of the movement across U.S. borders, and scholars, as a group, aren't in the direst of need.
Catholics in India and China are a small share of the population, but they number 19m and 17m respectively, behind only the Philippines.
These vehicles are a small share of all the vehicles parking at the malls, indicating that drivers of freight vehicles are less willing to cruise or reschedule their trip - once they arrive at the mall they perform the delivery, even if the parking facilities are congested.
AHIP likes to talk about how insurance profits are a small share of national health spending -- less then one penny of every dollar spent on health care in the U.S. -- but that is an absurd, deceptive and self-serving statistic.
Almost half of Flushing residents are Asian, though among registered voters, they are a smaller share -- roughly 20percentt, according to estimates based on surnames.
They concluded that black segregation had changed little from 2000 in the metropolitan areas, and had actually increased in areas where blacks are a smaller share of population.
The original standards for fuel economy in the 1970s exempted light trucks, which were a small share of the market.
Schipper told me, "In the end, the impact of rebound is small, in my view, for one very key reason: energy is a small share of the economy.
LeRoy Neiman, perhaps the most recognizable sports artist, said in an earlier interview that star athletes should share in any profits the artist earns, even if it is a small share -- a practice he says he follows.
Rising raw material prices in China in 2000 did not drive up consumer prices much, however, because raw materials were a small share of the total cost of goods then, with labor and other costs contributing more.
The expansion, announced by the Federal Housing Finance Agency, aims to double that number — although that would still be a small share of the more than 10 million homeowners with loan balances larger than the values of their homes.
