The phrase "a minor sum" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a small amount of money or a trivial financial figure.
Example: "The donation was appreciated, but it was just a minor sum compared to what we needed for the project."
Alternatives: "a small amount" or "a trivial sum".
But if you miss repayments, charges can quickly clock up, and what starts as a minor amount of money can quickly snowball into a sizeable sum.
Enterprise forfeitures are generally associated with major investments made by drug kingpins; however, don't underestimate this possibility in small businesses where relatively minor sums may have a substantial financial impact.
Cell growth and proliferation analyses showed that knockdown of ERLIN2 slowed the proliferation rate of SUM-44 and SUM-225 cells, but had only a minor effect on SUM-102 and MCF10A cells, which lack ERLIN2 amplification.
A minor tax on total earnings improves the sum of the agents' and the principals' payoffs.
In those cases, we allowed more degrees of freedom (df) for time, provided that this imposed only a minor burden on the sum of the residual PACFs.
In the special case of the small cities (and especially in cause-specific mortality), where the above criterion may lead to almost linear fit for the seasonality, we allowed more degrees of freedom for time provided that this imposed only a minor burden in the sum of the residual PACs.
This had a minor influence on the total, because the sums of the five and the 14 congeners were very close.
A trust can allow you to exert greater control over the distribution of your assets; for example, if you choose to leave a large sum to a minor, a trust can establish how and when the child will receive the money after you're gone.
So, for me, being there as someone you see holding a guitar onscreen is something that I acknowledge as being an element in it all that might hold some interest for potential viewers, but a minor part in the final sum of what is actually going on.
Walken's explanation of the watch's history, is a minor classic, while Keitel's summing up of the two inexperienced crooks he faces, and his easy domination of them, is the product of actor and script in delicious symmetry.
