Sentence examples for minor nuisances from inspiring English sources

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Along with the benefits, there are some minor nuisances.

Minor nuisances that at one time I barely would have noticed now loomed large and seemed impossible to ­navigate.

Most problems are minor nuisances, like the occasional fly ball going through a window at Van Cortlandt House, or the college students who assumed the house was abandoned and tried to camp out inside.

Many firms The Economist included automatically append these sorts of disclaimers to every message sent from their e-mail servers, no matter how brief and trivial the message itself might be.E-mail disclaimers are one of the minor nuisances of modern office life, along with fire drills, annual appraisals and colleagues who keep sneezing loudly.

This is important because it speaks to a range of male behaviours that have often been dismissed as minor nuisances – flashing, stealing underwear, making obscene phone calls – but that are all acts men do in order to reassure themselves of their power and potency.

But Mr Walker regards such things as fairly minor nuisances.He is more concerned about the drug-traffickers who once tried to run him over.

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For his company, Brexit is just a minor nuisance, he says.

Last week Michael Bloomberg, the mayor, scolded some banks for treating robberies as a minor nuisance.

Naturally Ella's awful stepsisters have wangled invitations, but they're a minor nuisance.

A minor nuisance in the overall context of early 1950s New York, but it had to be dealt with.

For most people, potholes are banal, a minor nuisance, but for a small few they turn out to be catastrophic.

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