Sentence examples for a minor event from inspiring English sources

The Beijing Games were a minor event until Bindra's victory.

He called $50,000 a "minor event" compared to the amounts Indian-Americans give to campaigns.

It turned out to be a minor event: a man was breaking into his mother's house.

Paris vs. Toulouse is a must-win game, but a minor event along a momentous road.

IN most downtowns, the opening of a new coffee bar or Tex-Mex restaurant would be a minor event.

Their book is a minor event (few real sparks fly), but it is flecked with incidental pleasures.

The 26th-seeded Pennetta, an athletic shotmaker who can handle and deliver power, had beaten Williams on a hardcourt last year at a minor event in Bangkok.

In fact, the presence of this piece, along with a dozen others on loan from Nepal's national art collections, is a minor event in itself.

But on Friday, he withdrew from a minor event in Casablanca, Morocco, before his semifinal because of swelling and pain in the knee.

This would be "a minor consequence event", AWE added.

Those with a high vulnerability can have it triggered by a fairly minor event; those with a low degree of vulnerability will be triggered only by more significant trauma.