Sentence examples for a trifling two years from inspiring English sources

Jockey Mike Smith, Stevens' junior by a trifling two years, again showed sublime timing to produce Palace Malice — whose searing early fractions in the Derby saw him wilt away to nothing — for big-race recompense.

In the wake of My Bloody Valentine and David Bowie stealth-bombing pop culture, decades after their last recordings, it's no wonder hardly anybody in the UK noticed Fall Out Boy rush-release a secretly recorded fifth album in April after a trifling five years away – we had barely filed our report to the Missing Emos Bureau.

In total it is a trifling three trays' worth of locusts, perhaps 100 insects in all.

But there's a wrinkle, even if it's a trifling one: some say it could be faster.

Shinwari waited a year, two years.

A year? Two years?

A: Five years, max.

But because Stone is a trifling 17 years old (and, by happenstance, a photogenic little pixie) she has also had many springing to her defence.

The constitutional court annulled a previous election seven years ago for seemingly trifling irregularities, he says.

But a thousand years?

(A million years pass).