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The phrase "a marginal impact on" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a small or insignificant effect that something has on another thing.
Example: "The new policy is expected to have a marginal impact on overall productivity."
Alternatives: "a slight effect on" or "a minimal influence on".
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Mr. Lawitts said the delays and overruns would have only a "marginal" impact on water rates.
Such plans would, at best, have a marginal impact on the bank-insolvency problem.
Their research suggested higher peak fares would have only a marginal impact on travel patterns.
Other concessions offered by Mr. Brown appeared to have had only a marginal impact on the vote.
The company's operations in both countries include onshore and offshore fields but have a marginal impact on BP's overall production.
Liam Bailey, head of residential research at estate agency Knight Frank, said he expected the tax change to have only a "marginal impact" on demand and prices.
A no-fly zone would be very difficult to enforce, and might not have anything more than a marginal impact on the ground.
No serious analyst – including those in Whitehall – think changes to benefit rules will have more than a marginal impact on migration flows".
Proposed federal gun-trafficking laws and changes to mental health databases would have a marginal impact on gun violence, experts say.
However, the measures he has put forward will at best make a marginal impact on a housing market in London, where the sale of social housing and the failure to replace it has created a crisis.
Moreover, the small price increases that would result from allowing exports would have at most a marginal impact on the use of natural gas as fuel for cars and trucks.
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