Sentence examples for hardly minor from inspiring English sources

Photographs later documented that the work was hardly minor: entire apartments taken down to the studs; one-bedroom units altered to have two.

Now Mr. Bush has added the number two official at the Defense Department, Deputy Secretary Gordon R. England, and the head of the immigration bureau, Julie L. Myers -- hardly minor jobs.

Ethnic cleansing, impunity for atrocities, crimes against humanity, an undemocratic constitution and inaction in the face of an imminent humanitarian disaster- these are hardly minor failings associated with Thein Sein's administration.

Do such changes qualify as an "update?" They're hardly minor.

It's a small slip, but hardly a minor one, since the point of quoting Donne's labouring lines is that the metre requires of a reader the kind of struggle counselled by the words, just as Stevens requires of his difficult verse that it strain towards an essential truth while holding open the possibility that such truths might remain out of reach.

This is hardly a minor deficiency.

Corn is hardly some minor agricultural product for breakfast cereal.

Its bold, often mesmerizing forms reaffirm the originality of his talent, yet its tortured geometries make it a daunting place to install or view art — hardly a minor drawback.

As you know, this is hardly a minor procedure as it involves taking a ligament from another part of the body and putting it into the injured elbow where the ulnar collateral ligament has been torn.

Consequently, the precipitating act in the film — a bread vendor's taking a shortcut through another clan's farm — is hardly a minor trespass and the penalty for it is almost beyond an American audience's comprehension.

But carbon dioxide has only a very minor, hardly detectable role.