"marginal contributions" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It refers to contributions or impacts that are minor or small in comparison to the total or main contribution. Example: While the company's top executives were responsible for the success of the new product launch, it was the marginal contributions of the lower-level employees that truly made a difference in the overall outcome.
That has little to do with Mr Livingstone, but he has made some useful marginal contributions.
In a country chronically obsessed with success, the musical's celebration of even the most seemingly marginal contributions as intrinsic elements of nation-building gives it stirring resonance.
"I have relied on my own experience in reaching the conclusion that the imposition of the death penalty 'represents the pointless and needless extinction of life with only marginal contributions to any discernible social or public purposes.' " Still, he felt bound by the precedents of the Court to uphold lethal injections.
And in a 2008 case upholding the method of lethal injection, Justice John Paul Stevens concurred out of respect for court precedent but characterized capital punishment as "the pointless and needless extinction of life with only marginal contributions to any discernible social or public purposes".
Having voted in 1976 to uphold capital punishment, he now agreed with the late Justice Byron White (in Furman v Georgia, 1972) that its imposition represents "the pointless and needless extinction of life with only marginal contributions to any discernible social or public purposes".
Fujinaka introduces the concept of the α-marginal contributions constructed as an expected average of the marginal contributions over some partitions.
Policy 33, 1167 1183] on the tennis racket industry shows that independent inventors are a heterogeneous group which includes both "heroes" who contribute substantially to technological progress and "hobbyists" who make only a marginal contribution.
In normal times, what the opposition says usually makes a marginal contribution to the destiny of the nation.
Until now, the "vital role" that President Bush has promised for the United Nations has been limited, by American design, to a marginal contribution.
Repeated interest rate cuts encouraged families to buy new houses and refinance their mortgages, putting cash in their pockets; yes, the tax cut also made a marginal contribution.
But in the context of an event such as the Ryder Cup, does Montgomerie's marginal contribution over the course of a wet weekend in Wales deserve to be honoured with the title coach of the year?
