The phrase "minor measures" is correct and can be used in written English.
It refers to small, insignificant actions taken to achieve a certain goal or solve a problem. Example: "In order to reduce their carbon footprint, the company implemented minor measures such as installing energy-efficient light bulbs and encouraging employees to carpool."
They may be minor measures, but he'd obviously given the occasion some thought.
Only minor measures were taken to benefit the serfs on private estates.
But what that pivot would mean, as far as I can tell, was proposing some minor measures that would be more symbolic than substantive.
Leaving aside minor measures, such as the deregulation of long-distance buses, there has been little in the way of structural reforms to encourage firms to invest.
The Independent, echoing the Mail, described Cameron's concessions as "footling" and, in so doing, "has left himself looking fairly foolish" with "modest adjustments to qualified majority voting, tax credits and a miscellany of minor measures".
Some of the more minor measures included scrapping national insurance paid by companies for apprentices, abolishing air passenger duty paid on young children's flights, getting rid of a tax on inherited pension pots and cancelling an increase in fuel duty.
In that sense, I guess, Mr. Grieco has saved me — amid a minor measure of torment.
But green activists saw this as a minor measure compared with the billions Osborne has handed to motorists by not increasing petrol duty as planned.
Most tears were minor, measuring 5 mm or less in almost half of the patients.
This study reported substantial to almost perfect agreement (к = 0.69 to 0.81) for rhomboid strength and latissimus dorsi and pectoralis minor length measures, and poor agreement for middle and lower trapezius strength measures (к = −0.04 to −0.07).
The mean curvature, as the name suggests, is found by taking the arithmetic mean average of these major and minor curvature measures, and so the IMC is a summation of this averaged curvature measure over the entire surface.
