The phrase "makes little contribution" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used to describe something that has a minimal or negligible effect. For example, "The efforts of the volunteer crew made little contribution to the success of the project."
As important as this work is to history, I am sorry to report that it makes little contribution to the art of storytelling.
As another contribution, this article further proposes that in the optimal solution, there is a considerable part of system power which makes little contribution to the SE and thus should be saved.
In the case of insufficient moist curing for 3 or 7 days, the compressive strength loss rate of concrete containing fly ash is close to that of the plain cement concrete, indicating that the addition of fly ash makes little contribution to the enhancement of the sulfate attack resistance of concrete.
By contrast, Airn makes little contribution to the discrimination axes (Fig. 1B).
However, it is associated with a low level of true uncertainty and thus makes little contribution to uncertainty in output variability.
One possibility is that long-distance dispersal is a very rare phenomenon and makes little contribution to genetically homogenizing disparate outcrops.
(The languages known as East Frisian and North Frisian made little contribution to Frisian literature. See Frisian language).
A closely watched survey of the sector suggested it made little contribution to the UK's overall economic growth in the first quarter.
As a result, the university made little contribution to the humanistic studies of the Renaissance, and the university subsequently declined under the impact of the Reformation and the ensuing Counter-Reformation.
In the centuries that Petrarch called the Dark Ages, when Christian Europe made little contribution to the study of Greek classical philosophy, and many of the texts were lost, these works were preserved by Muslim scholars.
"Azrael's strategy made little contribution to the progress of the cases before me," and was "now an affront to the hard work that others contributed," the judge wrote.
