It's a minor problem.

Even the merest little thing irritated him.

It's only a minor setback.

The difference in our ages is not significant.

This small sum is unworthy of US leadership.

An insignificant scene from some random pitched battle.

Inequality is not a fringe issue.

Only a minority of the children who inherit the gene(s) have symptoms severe enough to require medical attention.

Yet it also noted that the region s biodiversity was under massive threat, with little or no protection.

Such associations demand only a small part of the individual's resources, sometimes only a token monetary contribution.

NASA engineers finally came to the conclusion that there were too many files on the file system, which was a relatively minor problem.

But it's a trivial price to pay in order to make China's future more secure and peaceful for millions of Chinese.

After all, Sudan is not a small, insignificant country it is the tenth largest the biggest in Africa and in the Arab world.

China s approach represents a huge disguised tax on savers, who are paid only a pittance in interest on their deposits.

Maybe explaining this number is just a technical issue, a technical detail of interest to experts, but of no relevance to anybody else.

Given scarce resources, we must ask ourselves do we want to do a lot of good now, or a little good much later?

One survey showed only lukewarm support for the LDP in the proportional representation vote, and a narrowing of the gap between the ruling parties and the opposition parties in the electoral districts.

Indeed, one of the most interesting features of the uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt and possibly the most consequential as well is the very minor role played by Islamists.

That amount may seem unrealistically high, but it is a negligible proportion of the estimated 160 billion spent on health related R D worldwide.

While the City of London was shaken by the collapse of Lehman Brothers and the run on HBOS, Sotheby s staged a record breaking auction for the works of the artist Damien Hirst, which produced a gross take of around 200 million. Compared to the values that were being destroyed on Wall Street, this was small change but it was a remarkable vote of confidence in the work of one artist.

Compared to the values that were being destroyed on Wall Street, this was small change but it was a remarkable vote of confidence in the work of one artist.

In this way we can verify that only a very small part of the total funds that Cáritas manages, comes from the church as an institution in the form of contributions from the Interdiocesan Fund and from diocesan organisations.

True, a small part of the near half of the population who officially do not work are employed in the underground economy, but this is small consolation certainly it is not in those sectors that the future of the Italian economy is to be found.

All these day to day troubles, which often make us feel hopelessly vexed, are but a negligible trifle in comparison with the historic significance of the fall of Communism across the world, which was the background of the Czechoslovak November 1989.

That s not a trivial sum, but it isn t out of reach, especially considering that affluent nations would also benefit from cheaper drugs and from medical research that was focused on reducing disease rather than on maximizing profits.

The retail majority. The feeble State commerce is not prepared for the demand of recent months...If this contradiction isn t resolved, the time will come when pork, peppers and potatoes can only be found on the plates of paladares private restaurants.