Example sentences of "only a minimal [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 A real estate agent and descendant of one of the old missionary families , he set out with only a minimal grasp of technique to achieve the simple objective of riding the biggest wave in history .
2 The ubiquity of Unix means they run on a wide range of platforms , but there is still only a minimal amount of interoperability between them .
3 The ubiquity of Unix means they run on a wide range of systems , but there is still only a minimal amount of interoperability between them .
4 not only was the undergraduate teaching poor , but there was only a minimal amount of postgraduate education in this subject ; part of the reason for this was that there was a shortage of suitable qualified and experienced doctors who knew enough to take on such postgraduate teaching ;
5 The reason for this is simple that there is no d.c. path to ground in the oscillator stage and the d.c. amplifier stage ( TR2 ) will consume only a minimal value of collector leakage current whilst the device is in the ‘ off ’ state .
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