Sentence examples for a trifling number from inspiring English sources

That isn't a trifling number.

There were fewer than thirty confirmed cases — a trifling number compared with the millions who are infected each year in South America, Africa, and Asia.

Maybe it was even time to consider writing a second draft of one of these works of patent genius, rather than trusting that London publishers would have the wit to recognise an obvious rough diamond who, a trifling number of easily polished awkwardnesses having been dealt with, was surely about to make the ungrateful wretches millions..

And the safety net for the hardest-hit homeowners was extended.These measures may cost around £1.6 billion, a trifling figure.

He and two other commission members — J. Christian Adams and Hans von Spakovsky — have asserted that the trifling number of prosecutions for actual voter misconduct represented only a fraction of the total.

How can it be expected that twelve judges can go through the increased and increasing business now, when the affairs of men are so extended and multiplied in every direction, the same twelve, and at one time fifteen, having not been much more than sufficient for the comparatively trifling number of causes tried two or three centuries ago?

But given a 2012 study estimated there are around 4.8 million American men who have sex with men (MSM), that represents around 1.25percentt of them a trifling number, considering the CDC believes that one in four should be offered the drug by their doctors.

The genres have not been accorded a corresponding measure of respect, however — the prizes and reviews still largely go to "literary" novels that seldom sell more than comparatively trifling numbers.

Three years ago that figure was 49%, which is hardly a trifling minority.

Debts currently stand at a trifling £660m.

This is not a trifling achievement.