Example sentences of "have only a marginal " in BNC.
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| 1 | While the Odiham Society has earned and received its fair share of credit , it must be concluded that this modest proposal , so long in incubation , was likely even if put into effect , to have had only a marginal impact on the situation it was meant to remedy — as the society soon realised . |
| 2 | Although the Foreign Office may say that the mooted treaty on political union would have only a marginal impact on the EC , it would clearly diminish national sovereignty . |
| 3 | This may have only a marginal effect on the owners of a semi , but in blocks of flats contributions have to be made to a maintenance fund . |
| 4 | For one thing , as it applies only to areas of new or rehabilitated housing , it can have only a marginal impact on overall levels of safety in all residential areas , at least for the foreseeable future . |
| 5 | But it pointed out that the delays would have only a marginal impact on the total UK production profile and would help to sustain the mid-1990s production plateau beyond the turn of the century . |
| 6 | Again , the police ( who had only a marginal role in enforcing the new order , and who sometimes perhaps accepted it with less than utter enthusiasm ) were more likely to have diverse tribal allegiances in the larger settlements nearer the cities or in strategically more significant places . |
| 7 | Currency movements had only a marginal impact on the results . |
| 8 | Currency movements had only a marginal impact on the results . |
| 9 | Currency fluctuations had only a marginal impact on the results . |
| 10 | The formation of Nato therefore had only a marginal effect , at first , on the pre-existing Anglo-American defence relationship . |
| 11 | The overwhelming conclusion emerging from any assessment of these programmes is that they have only a marginal impact on inner-urban problems . |