"minor drawback" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it to refer to a slight disadvantage or inconvenience. For example, "The shortage of parking spaces was the only minor drawback to the location of the apartment."
Lack of stereopsis was considered a minor drawback.
The relatively minor drawback of Program A was its unvaried tone of smoothness.
A minor drawback with any headset is that it takes a little longer to answer the phone.
This innovative metering system has one minor drawback: rewinding to watch a favorite scene eats up a few more minutes of your monthly allotment.
One minor drawback with John Cage's experimental piece is in a sporting context it could easily be mistaken for a rather long minute's silence.
Dr. Woese, of the University of Illinois, said he considered this "a minor drawback compared with the drawbacks of the soup theory," the soup in question being the watery environments in which Dr. Miller seeks the origin of life.
There are two minor drawbacks to this method.
He said that relatively minor drawbacks include fluctuating temperatures in the showers and Jacuzzis, and a cool breeze in the locker room that sometimes chills athletes between dives.
But the final product overcomes its relatively minor drawbacks to present a serious and engaging historical portrait of one of jazz's greatest underappreciated figures.
Yet these minor drawbacks are far outweighed by Steinhauer's brisk pacing, sharp dialogue and convincing evocation of a paranoid subculture.
These are minor drawbacks, however, and do not undermine a magnificent biography from which Dirac emerges with sympathy, damaged but not broken and capable of love but not of expressing it.
