I. adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a little/minor mistake
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The essay was full of little mistakes.
a little/minor mystery
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It was a minor mystery how the file had survived the fire.
a major/minor factor (= the most or least important of several factors )
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The country’s huge mineral reserves are a major factor behind its economic strength.
a major/minor operation
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The unit cares for patients recovering from major operations.
a minor accident (= one that is not serious )
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The ice and poor visibility caused minor accidents all over the country.
a minor character
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Two of the minor characters get killed.
a minor clash
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Minor clashes were reported to have taken place between police and students.
a minor earthquake (= a small one )
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Minor earthquakes are relatively common.
a minor exception (= not important )
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Everyone was in agreement, with a few minor exceptions.
a minor offence
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The police cautioned him for a minor offence.
a minor problem
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She has had some minor medical problems.
a minor repair (= a small one )
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In the summer, we had to carry out some minor repairs to the roof.
a minor reservation (= not serious or important )
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I voted "yes", although I had a few minor reservations
a minor road
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France has a huge network of minor roads.
a minor setback (= not very bad )
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It was only a minor setback.
a minor/mild stroke (= one that does not have very bad effects )
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She had a minor stroke five years ago.
a minor/slight modification (= a small modification )
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The document needed a few slight modifications.
a minor/small concession
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Washington made a few minor concessions in the climate talks.
a minor/small miracle (= something lucky but not very important )
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I’d managed to produce a good meal in half an hour, which seemed like a minor miracle.
a minor/small role
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He has had small roles in several other films.
a slight/minor defect
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There are one or two minor defects on the car’s paintwork.
a slight/minor disadvantage
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Children who are young in their school year sometimes have a slight disadvantage.
a slight/small/minor difference
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There’s only a slight difference between the male and the female bird.
a small/minor error
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The letter contained some minor spelling errors.
a small/minor incident
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An apparently minor incident sparked off rioting.
little/small/minor
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Old cars often develop minor engine problems.
major/minor surgery
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He will require major surgery to remove the lump.
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The President will undergo minor surgery today to remove a small growth from his finger.
minor ailments
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minor ailments
minor burns
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She is being treated for minor burns .
minor celebrities (= people who are not very famous )
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We invited a number of minor celebrities .
minor damage
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Fortunately, the fire caused only minor damage.
Minor Leagues
minor quibbles
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I’ve just got a few minor quibbles .
minor
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A man was treated in hospital for minor injuries.
minor (= not serious )
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He suffered a succession of minor illnesses.
minor
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Two passengers had to be treated for minor cuts.
minor
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His wounds, luckily, were minor.
minor/major etc alterations
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The King’s Arms pub is to undergo extensive alterations .
minor/slight adjustment
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It just needs a few minor adjustments.
serious/major/basic/minor etc flaw
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a slight flaw in the glass
slight/minor (= not serious )
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She’s suffering from a slight infection.
slight/small/minor
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The proposed changes were relatively minor.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
even
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When an extended family is living together at close quarters, even minor irritations can grow out of all proportion.
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Combined Fleet was not in the mood to accept even minor changes. 2.
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And predators are surprisingly nervous about sustaining even minor injuries.
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Keep track of spending and do a daily tally of even minor expenses to ensure that your budget is staying on target.
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Lowe couldn't handle all the deference that went with even minor royalty.
only
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Later another partially ignited device was found in a second furniture shop but caused only minor damage.
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House rules allow only minor gifts such as shirts and souvenir trinkets.
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Perhaps the damage here was only minor , a last tremor before the fabric of space-time mended again.
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They judged only minor cases; more serious matters were referred to the higher courts.
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RioFinex examined the Ordovician volcanic rocks of County Tyrone for base metals but found only minor intersections of low-grade copper mineralisation.
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In blood, the majority is found in erythrocytes with only minor quantities in plasma or serum.
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There was only minor structural damage to roofs and chimneys.
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In retrospect, it seems not only minor , but irrelevant.
relatively
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Such a precedent does not exist and will not be established under the relatively minor privatisation programme that we are discussing today.
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Much of the controversy centers on two relatively minor farm programs: peanuts and sugar.
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As yet, the costs of electronic information sources represent a relatively minor part of a research library's budget.
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Thus far, only two relatively minor planks of the 10-point House-initiated legislative agenda have become law.
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Although the majority of sporting injuries are relatively minor , a substantial number are more serious.
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Motor buses occupy a relatively minor role in the period covered by this volume.
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Further, it is no defense to urge that the religious practices here may be relatively minor encroachments on the First Amendment.
very
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Three or four years ago we were involved in this only in a very minor way.
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In the scheme of things, they may be very minor .
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Clauses 1, 2 and 4 and the corresponding sections exhibit very minor drafting differences.
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In practice, however, simple majorities were to be applicable only in six very minor and procedural areas.
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Although arrests are up slightly at 20, Chief Supt Tasker said most were for very minor offences, such as drunkenness.
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A very minor enemy, and empty.
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If he didn't want to go to court for a very minor offence, then you could caution him.
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The one percent drop in interest rates will only give very minor help.
■ NOUN
ailment
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A series of minor ailments led Grant and Julie to take Maisie to a doctor, and tests revealed leukaemia.
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In many states, liberalized workers' compensation programs have permitted unscrupulous employees to parlay minor ailments into early retirements.
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Every minor ailment is interpreted as the start of another tumour.
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Early in his career, the story goes, a patient appeared with some minor ailment .
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Males will have found themselves reassessing minor ailments .
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Aromatherapy, as it is more usually practised, is about prevention of major illness and the symptomatic treatment of minor ailments .
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Consultations, mostly for minor ailments , are characteristically brief.
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Coughs and colds and minor ailments began to seem poor substitutes for the wounds everybody had been expecting when the bombs fell.
alteration
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She performed a few minor alterations on her body to make her feel better.
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An unacceptable deterioration of glycaemic control occurs when control can not readily be restored by a minor alteration of the treatment regimen.
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Archelaus Archelaus, who was roughly contemporary with Diogenes, seems to have taken over Anaxagoras' system, with minor alterations .
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An earlier draft had been rejected by the King who had requested a number of minor alterations .
burn
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He was taken to hospital with minor burns to his hair, left arm, face and ears.
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She needed treatment for smoke inhalation and minor burns .
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Mercifully he suffered only minor burns to his wrists and neck, the judge said.
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Luckily they got out with minor burns , but that could have been very serious.
change
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These frontiers held with minor changes until the republic was abolished by Napoleon in 1808.
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Combined Fleet was not in the mood to accept even minor changes . 2.
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While examining the smear other minor changes not connected with cancer are often found.
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Some minor changes that have been made to the screen and print format menu will also be covered here.
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Women with bulimia are often sensitive to minor changes in their body weight.
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The Senate bill retains the existing program with minor changes .
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The Chancellor also announced some minor changes to Personal Equity Plans.
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The Kansas senator indicated a willingness to make minor changes in the anti-abortion plank in the Republican platform.
character
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All the minor characters did all they were meant to do.
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Occasionally he will offer a character in the true romantic style, but it will be a minor character.
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Turning the original classic topsy-turvy, Stoppard makes Hamlet himself take a back seat and elevates two minor characters to star status.
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Before then, many more of the minor characters in the Aum case will have received swift justice.
damage
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Later another partially ignited device was found in a second furniture shop but caused only minor damage .
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Here in Scituate, the storm caused minor damage , flooding streets and knocking down power lines.
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Up to 200 others suffered minor damage .
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Historic Curry Village also escaped flooding, the only minor damage inflicted by a rock slide.
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Torquay Deaf Club suffered some minor damage , but nothing which could not be easily repaired.
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Such acts often involve minor damage to property or disruption of certain routine social events.
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There was only minor damage to property, however, and no loss of life.
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Devices were also thrown at two other houses in the estate but caused only minor damage .
detail
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As for cleansing and lighting these were regarded as relatively minor details whose provision was hardly important.
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It didn't matter for, apart from minor details that necessitated some new editing, they were the same.
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Maltote was exhausted and had some difficulty remembering certain minor details , but, at last, a full account was given.
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These and other minor details are well worth researching for important presentations.
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The remainder was taken up with minor details .
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A Plate Tectonic Re-cap Rather a lot has been said in this chapter about the minor details of lava flows.
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Their attention to the minor details of everyday life paints a far more vivid picture of bygone days than any history book.
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Even that minor detail spoke volumes about the differences in cultures.
difference
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This suggests that human genetic variation is the result of only a few thousand minor differences between proteins.
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There are also minor differences of which to take account.
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Both algorithms produced almost identical maps, with minor differences in the order of repetitive probes and those having identical hybridisation patterns.
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But there are minor differences in the way some of the parts are displayed, depending on the option chosen.
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There are relatively minor differences which I shall point out where they become relevant.
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Of course there have been some minor differences of opinion.
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However, there were a number of minor differences .
exception
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Third, Tempo 30 would be introduced throughout the experimental area, with only minor exceptions .
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With minor exceptions , the Soviet Union fell apart in peace.
groove
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Arginine 40 and 40' extend from the A helices towards the minor groove , and contact phosphates G10' and G2.
illness
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Such research would be helped by the development of valid, reliable instruments to measure quality of life in common minor illnesses .
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By fall the disease, first thought a minor illness , was an epidemic.
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Absenteeism, recurrent minor illnesses , accidents at home and at work and disturbed relationships with colleagues are all commonplace.
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There are many people who simply can not afford to run to the doctor every time they have a minor illness .
incident
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Even a minor incident reveals his desperate determination to overcome, the desperation of the poor.
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Sometimes seemingly minor incidents can have a major impact on the outcome in New Hampshire.
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Before this happened, however, there were two minor incidents worthy of comment.
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Police reported a number of minor incidents but no further serious accidents.
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There are, of course, always a number of minor incidents and accidents during training.
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The commercial incentive to reduce minor incidents therefore goes hand in hand with incentives to reduce major accidents.
injury
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Forty-nine people were treated for minor injuries at two hospitals in Olympia.
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There was no fire, and all four occupants quickly vacated the wreckage with no more than minor injuries .
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Two girls were transported to hospitals with minor injuries .
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Shelley was there on her own, seeing to a couple of minor injuries while Mrs Richards dozed in the sickroom.
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Paul Warhurst and Phil King are expected to shake off minor injuries in time to face Forest.
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She was treated by an emergency medical team for minor injuries , officials said.
key
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His eyes narrowed slightly but he started the second verse in the minor key she was using, following her lead.
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We may say that when a piece of music unexpectedly changes to a minor key this expresses a feeling of foreboding.
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Contrasts of major and minor keys with the same root, found but once in Stuck's first book, are characteristic.
league
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The use of smokeless tobacco is now banned in the minor leagues .
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He is currently a pitching instructor for the Tampa Yankees, a minor league team.
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Claire is likely to return them to the minor leagues .
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Nothing he does is minor league .
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Just a couple of years later, he was about the best player in the lower minor leagues .
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It was truly the minor leagues .
matter
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The government is tinkering with minor matters while the Crown Court burns a substantial amount of money.
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Most of us have allowed an important relationship to deteriorate over a minor matter that was never intended.
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We often receive letters about relatively minor matters that can easily be put right after discussion with patients.
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Let's concentrate on the wedding and set aside minor matters like setting up home together, buying furniture and the honeymoon.
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To create a law would waste police time on minor matters .
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But, except over minor matters , the quality of his work had never been questioned before.
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For some, the Council was no more than a prudent but much misunderstood attempt to update a few relatively minor matters .
miracle
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Between us we had even hired a video so that we could record this minor miracle of medical history for posterity.
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From the kitchen wafts the fragrance of fresh-baked. minor miracles .
modification
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The principal results in Section 17.3 go over to the more general case with only minor modifications .
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Since neither of the assumptions is normally valid, two minor modifications of the basic model are required.
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A template had been forged which was subject to only minor modifications over time.
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The engine will fit straight into your Land Rover with minor modifications to fuel lines and wiring and exhaust front pipe.
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This consideration has resulted in continuation of the same procedures with some minor modifications for the second phase of pilot schemes.
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Participants reported that most workshops were very useful as they stood or needed minor modification .
operation
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Opened in 1875, it now provides physiotherapy, x-ray, a casualty service and minor operations .
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It's a very minor operation , really.
part
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As yet, the costs of electronic information sources represent a relatively minor part of a research library's budget.
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Both wanted to be actresses and had already had minor parts on the stage in small theaters.
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And on that occasion print propaganda appears to have played only a minor part .
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But managing is a minor part of what leaders do.
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In fact, drugs are just a minor part of their lives.
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A couple of locals, Benjamin Stewart and Maedell Dixon, liven up the minor parts of the doctor and his wife.
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The amount spent on the telescope itself - say £10 million - is only a minor part of the total expense!
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Training, even specific skill training, was just a minor part of leadership development.
party
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Other minor parties accounted for 1.1 percent of the vote and won no seats.
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Three minor parties won no seats at all.
problem
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The light-hearted tone of Elaine Blond characterised Bloomsbury House policy of not taking minor problems too seriously.
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Whomever you consult, what counts is getting help before minor problems become major.
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Only the really great champions refuse to be sidetracked by any of these minor problems .
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A minor problem prevents the machine firing this turn.
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The rocket had a minor problem during its first launch last October.
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But that was also just a minor problem .
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To Dempster, good-hearted and full of admiration and enthusiasm for Keith's genius, this was only a minor problem .
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There were other minor problems which I will not bore you with.
repair
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It would apparently only require minor repairs plus a reliable water supply to put the mill back into operation.
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Be prepared for minor repairs on the road.
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Repair Best done by professionals, but some minor repairs can be safely undertaken at home.
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John carried out some minor repairs to the roof, but the bad weather prevented him from tackling any major work.
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The family's first stop at a garage for a minor repair led Jack into conversation with the proprietor.
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All reported faults will be investigated, and approved minor repairs will be undertaken.
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Aluminium parts, in the main, were all recoverable, requiring only cleaning and minor repairs .
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It should be easier to get minor repairs done than at present.
road
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It is also consistent with the type of situation which was almost never recalled - going straight ahead past a minor road .
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Presently it led them from the main highway to minor roads and country lanes.
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Moral: minor roads are only a short cut if you know where you are!
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After following field tracks and minor roads across mid-Devon, passing through quaint villages, you arrive in Exmoor.
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Spouthouse Aqueduct crosses a minor road , by which stand Dyas Take Away and a supermarket.
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Turn up minor road for yds, then left through fate into field.
role
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A time when adventure came first and pure athleticism played only a minor role in the great climbing game.
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The big Muppet stars are relegated to minor roles and humans take center stage.
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There were many others playing more minor roles .
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They include history; but in this chapter it will play only a minor role .
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This kind of group can be thought of as having only a minor role within counselling.
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In the realm of secret diplomacy it would appear that public opinion had only a very minor role to play.
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Motor buses occupy a relatively minor role in the period covered by this volume.
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In sharp contrast to previous pacifist agitations, the Nonconformist churches played only a minor role .
surgery
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Others increased provision of minor surgery with a view to reducing referrals to certain specialties.
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I wished for my Mom to take care of me after minor surgery last year.
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The risks of this condition after elective minor surgery under local anaesthesia have probably not been appreciated.
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Finally he decided to enter the hospital for minor surgery , in the hope of seeing more of her there.
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We have already ear-marked one fine beech for only minor surgery .
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Hopefully, it should see many forms of cancer treatable as simply as popping into hospital for minor surgery .
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Had had, so Sammler was told, minor surgery .
variation
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There is not only a single currency but also a single economic policy, with only minor variations between states.
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The scene repeated with minor variations and the game continued to our amusement for the hour that we were having coffee.
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Leaf-gilding usually shows only minor variations in thickness and a superficial bonding to the metal below.
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There are many minor variations , from species to species, but these two types of distraction display are the basic forms.
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This hairstyle proved pervasive, lasting with minor variations into late antiquity.
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The experiments described above were performed more than once, with minor variations in the procedure adopted.
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More notable, however, is yet another minor variation of the squat urn.
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On these three topics the various works are all agreed apart from minor variations .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
the Minor Leagues
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a minor traffic violation
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a symphony in D minor
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Most of the problems have been very minor .
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She fell off her horse, but suffered only minor injuries.
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She suffered some minor injuries in the accident.
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The contract seems fine, except for a few minor details.
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Two car windows were broken and minor damage was done to some shops.
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We've had a few minor problems with the new computer system.
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Williams suffered a minor stroke.
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With one or two minor changes, the course is the same as last year.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Also the main passage is a minor water course, but in rain like this it tends to swell.
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Black convicts were rounded up for minor offenses and forced to work.
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It is thought to have exploded on Saturday night or Sunday morning and caused minor damage.
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Kennedy might call up a minor bureaucrat to check on a detail.
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The Kansas senator indicated a willingness to make minor changes in the anti-abortion plank in the Republican platform.
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Unfortunately, Graham has a minor shortcoming when it comes to cracks - he can't jam; but he can layback!
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We are, after all, always talking about minor quantitative changes in an existing embryonic process.
II. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
sell
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The store was cited four times for selling alcoholic beverages to minors during a three-year period that began in 1994.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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"What's your minor ?" "History."
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Stores are forbidden to sell alcohol and cigarettes to minors.
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Thomas pleaded guilty to buying alcohol for a minor .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Although they've ended up at the same spot in their careers, they progressed through the minors at different rates.
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And in Minnesota, the proportion of second-trimester abortions among minors increased by 18 percent following enactment of parental notification law.
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He came up from the minors, directing martial-arts movies.
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Major minor was sent off in a school soccer match.
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Or have we moved from minor to major?
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They were, however, still minors.