Sentence examples for being a marginal from inspiring English sources

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The fourth age of safety, we could infer, deals with the role of (road) safety as a value in our culturally patterned ways of mastering the environment, attaining goals and of interacting with other human beings (mutual passing by being a marginal case of interaction).

She said she had quit smoking 22 years earlier after being "a marginal smoker for about 20 years".

At a stroke, the deal will promote Imperial from being a marginal American player to a distant but credible number three, with a market share of about 10%.

And by "continuous" I don't mean "continual," a distinction that Bryson elucidates in "Bryson's Dictionary of Troublesome Words," one of several also improbably entertaining books on language he has written, despite, if his memoir is to be believed, being a marginal student in high school and a onetime college dropout before lighting out for England in the 70's.

"Sometimes," one Republican senator said, "being a marginal's not all bad".

Being a marginal player in the country for about four years, he now knows exactly who the alliance is competing against.

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It was a marginal call.

Mr. Moussaoui, she said, "was a marginal figure".

This corner of northeast Derbyshire is a marginal place.

It was a marginal but palpably correct decision.

Last year, "Shark Tank" was a marginal success on Sunday night.

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