Sentence examples for marginal about from inspiring English sources

In the present global energy scenario, the share of modern renewables in the total primary energy use is marginal (about 4.5%%).

The amount they consumed was therefore marginal (about 10% of total sales of diesel fuel) CEC[111].

But on the contrary, there is nothing remotely marginal about our nation's colleges and universities.

So much of it was about the marginals, about Arabs or Mizrahim"—Jews from the Arab world—"but, to me, it pointed up this fundamental contradiction in the idea of Israel.

So much of it was about the marginals, about Arabs or Mizrahim" — Jews from the Arab world — "but, to me, it pointed up this fundamental contradiction in the idea of Israel.

Under George W. Bush Blackwater went from a marginal company with about $27 million in government contracts to a behemoth currently receiving over $1 billion in federal largesse.

The calculation of each set of four marginal likelihoods took about 6 days of wall-clock time on an Intel i7 CPU (2.93 GHz) with MATLAB R2010a.

But Abraham, giving evidence to MPs, said the programme had shone a light on a marginal community about which the public previously knew little about.

"It is not to make marginal choices about issues upon which reasonable, humane and informed people may readily disagree".

But I can also buy Anthony Painter's that: [W]hile AV will mean more marginal seats (about another 40 marginals) it won't in fact mean more choice.

Still, any cursory glimpse of Patchogue is a reminder that we are long past the point where it is a marginal conversation about suburban life.