The phrase "small yet significant" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use this phrase to emphasize how something may be small but still of importance. For example, "The contribution that she made may have been small yet significant in the grand scheme of things."
Witness the small, yet significant Vietnamese minority.
Two proved ineffective, but one protected a small yet significant minority of subjects.
I'm all for celebrating football, and football victories, and for the small yet significant changes that can happen through football.
Overall, the findings suggest that expressive writing tends to produce small yet significant improvements on adolescents' well-being.
The sales are a small yet significant dilution of the influence the partners have over the firm.
A small yet significant minority eventually quit their jobs and switch into the full-time programme to complete the transformation.
A combustible mix of poor governance, economic stagnation and weak democratic institutions has left a small yet significant minority vulnerable to recruitment by violent jihadists.
Results suggest that conifer shelterbelts represent a small, yet significant carbon reservoir on the Canterbury Plains, sequestering on average 237 ± 77 t C ha−1 of shelterbelt.
Deposition of canopy debris did not markedly affect stem densities but did have small yet significant effects on tree basal area.
Furthermore, mass-normalised torsional resistance retains a small yet significant allometric effect that reflects the inherent proportional relation between flight adaptations and body size, and should thus not be removed when investigating the locomotory affinities of extinct taxa12,20.
It also signifies a small yet significant victory for commuter van drivers, who have lobbied for years for permission to pick up passengers along bus routes without having to prearrange the fares.
