Sentence examples for minor element from inspiring English sources

But this is a minor element, he believes.

In the urbane atmospheres of the courts, the wine song, which had been a minor element in the old poetry, became a full-fledged genre.

Fisher had a pleasant day out even if he "found the birds … a minor element in the excitement of the Rockall landing".

The two dominant elements belong to the scorpaenid and the cottid-hexagrammid lines, whereas the third, and minor, element is the anoplopomatid line.

Tourism, commercial fishing, lumbering, and textile, steel, and paper production are important elements in the economy, but, apart from tobacco growing, agriculture is a minor element.

These feckless humans are an inconvenient and minor element of the regeneration process, like those tedious newts that have to be seen to be transported to other waterlogged areas when begrudging builders tarmac over an ancient wetland.

In this study, elemental distributions of minor elements with weak signals were enhanced by applying principal component analysis (PCA), which is a superior technique to extract weak signals from a large dataset.

"Bring clichés in as minor elements.

And there are some minor elements of mystery, like Moray's suspicious guilt over the death of his wife.

Somehow these two minor elements, the cowboyish cigarettes and the wan little hankie, produced the friction from which she could begin.

(The biggest features of the Glisten, which runs Microsoft's Windows Mobile 6.5, are a physical keyboard and minor elements like consolidated contact lists).