Sentence examples for minor gain from inspiring English sources

But Labor paid a high price for that minor gain.

The benefit of mortgaging our future to reap a minor gain today escapes me.

And the Prosperous Justice Party, despite its minor gain of less than one percentage point, is pressing to increase the number of ministers it has in the coalition government to four from three.

We can expect the cable news punditry to go out of its way to paint the Republicans' minor gain in female votes as some major shift in the psychology of American women.

That would seem to be a pretty minor gain.

Yesterday in after-hours trading, Microsoft picked up a minor gain.

Pointing to the rise in Publicis shares of just 0.25% in Paris, with Omnicom also minor modest gains in New York, Sorrell added that there appeared to be investor doubts over the rationale of the deal.

In the precious metals market, gold prices posted minor gains in domestic and overseas dealings.

The modest move extends a pattern this week: even with plenty of earnings news from big companies, the broader market has shuffled between minor gains and minor losses.

Good tackling usually holds first-down plays to minor gains and keeps third-down passes short of the first-down marker.

Lao Mong Hay, director of the independent Khmer Institute for Democracy, noted that despite their minor gains, Funcinpec and the Sam Rainsy Party would finally have a voice in local government.