"minor relief" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it when describing something that provides only a small amount of help or comfort, such as in the sentence: "The cool breeze provided only minor relief from the oppressive heat."
Any minor relief it might provide to troubled borrowers is clearly incidental.
Some minor relief forms are usually present on the surface of sand beaches.
Against the backdrop of recent events, the council results will be read with minor relief in Downing Street.
The returns of Iman Shumpert and Amar'e Stoudemire knocked Mike Bibby and Steve Novak out of the rotation and reduced the role of Josh Harrellson to minor relief.
The tweaks and minor relief that the union is offering now, and that would have been so welcome five years ago, will not do the job.
A red baseball cap provides Azmani Ridoin with only minor relief against the dazzling autumn sun as he squints across an artificial football pitch to scrutinise every move being made by his players.
When active, the faults created minor topographic relief.
Mr. McClain's nerdy Rutherford provides some minor comic relief in his continual tangles with the more earthy Evans.
There could even be a new interim agreement, locking in some gains, such as conversion of the Arak reactor to a design producing less plutonium, in exchange for further minor sanctions relief.
When Tony Clark came to bat later that inning, the scoreboard identified him by his correct uniform number, 52, but named him Jeremy Hill, who is the minor league relief pitcher the Mets obtained yesterday in a trade with the Kansas City Royals.
Alexander Stille, in his piece on the administration of Silvio Berlusconi, offers American readers minor comic relief from our own politicians, but it is important to note that Berlusconi has inflicted, since his return to power this past spring, real pain and suffering on Italy's more than four million immigrants, both legal and undocumented ("Girls! Girls! Girls!," November 3rd).
