"small surge" is correct and usable in written English
For example, "The stock market experienced a small surge after the announcement of the new tax plan."
He admitted that he does on occasion feel a small surge of pride.
But Mr. Ballmer suggested that Vista's release would generate only a "small surge" in PC sales.
On the night, he failed to end Mr Forbes's challenge and could face a small surge from Mr Keyes.
Giving a moment's attention to a feeling of anger or elation, a small surge of energy or a metabolic dip.
So it was with no small surge of recognition that I read Johanna Skibsrud's deeply moving The Sentimentalists.
A counterinsurgency requires a long commitment, 10 years or more, and great numbers of troops, but the United States intended to pull out after a quick, small surge.
The quake generated a tsunami, with small surges hitting the West Coast of the United States and slightly larger ones in Hawaii and other parts of the Pacific.
And the bloodiest delusion of the lot is to think that small surges in Helmand far away can win anything but yet more blood.
In Case III, however, (({mathcal {O}}text {mathcal {F}})_{dot B}) decays almost monotonically in time, except two small surges around 1940 and 1980.
It has a great many ideas, given in small surges.
There's another, smaller surge for the second world war, and then it isn't until the late 1980s that we're back to 1920 levels and above.
