Sentence examples for miniscule gap from inspiring English sources

Just beneath the membrane at the nerve terminal, synaptic vesicles store neurotransmitter molecules, and await the arrival of a nervous impulse, whereupon they fuse with the membrane and release their contents into the synaptic cleft, the miniscule gap at the junction between nerve cells, and diffuse across it to bind to receptor protein molecules embedded at the surface of the partner cell.

Once it has commandeered the cell, it treats the nervous system as a kind of interstate, hitchhiking from cell to cell by jumping the miniscule gaps between them.

There are, however, miniscule gaps called Nodes of Ranvier between each segment of myelin – the impulses jump from one Node to the next, and this speeds up their propagation along the fibre, in a process known as saltatory conduction.

But the microscopes available at the time were not powerful enough to resolve synapses, the miniscule gaps between nerve cells, and histologists were divided into two camps – the neuronists, who argued that the nervous system must consist of cells like all other living things, and the reticularists, who believed that it was composed instead of a continuous network of tissue.

The wires rapidly absorbed the gas and swelled slightly, which closed miniscule gaps and allowed an electrical current to flow more easily.

This year Obama's approval in the days leading up to election day was at 92% with Democrats and a miniscule 6% with Republicans – an 86-point gap.

Advanced NFL Stats is slightly more generous, placing the Falcons fifth, although the gap between the fifth and 12th teams in its rating is miniscule.

The proportion of women partners in U.S. venture capital firms was small in 1999 -- 10% -- and it was downright miniscule in 2014 -- 6%, according to Women Entrepreneurs 2014: Bridging the Gender Gap in Venture Capital, a report by Babson College.

Out they tumble, miniscule.

The "must-sees" are miniscule.

Personal computer sales were miniscule.