Sentence examples for but not very substantial from inspiring English sources

That's all well and good, but not very substantial.

The output of the flashlight was of course not very substantial, but I can see how it would be useful in some situations.

Violence at the Star casino in Sydney increased after the city's lockout laws were introduced but the number of extra assaults recorded was "not very substantial", the New South Wales crime statistics agency has found.

Droll and interesting; just not very substantial.

Not very substantial excuses, I admit.

The rest, who receive a not very substantial fee for the periodic intrusion on their lives, have stuck with it.

In addition, there are scattered hints in various early authors and in some not very substantial remains of 4th-century Pythagorean literature.

Ms Hustvedt subtly and convincingly captures the interplay between Bill's artistic life and his everyday life as a husband, a parent and a friend.Ms Hustvedt's previous two novels, "The Enchantment of Lily Dahl" (1996) and, before that, "The Blindfold" (1992), were slick and stylish: accomplished if not very substantial.

But part of McMahan's reasoning is also that the interests of the current nonperson are, as types of interests, not very substantial.

On incorporating more number of Gaussians, improvement is not very substantial; on the other hand, computation time of training HMM also increases.

Which is to say that it is funny -- and a crowd-pleaser -- it's just not very substantial.