Parent input on school calendars, food, and even the selection of the new superintendent is minuscule because they're being overwhelmed with innumerable calls home which lead them to disregard all of them.
(A tiny, independently owned plant in the central city of Huambo never closed completely, but its production has been minuscule and erratic because of difficulty in obtaining supplies).
The gradient in the cytoplasm predicted by modeling is minuscule (<0.1%), because of rapid cytoplasmic diffusion.
The lag has not been a concern during the Japanese nuclear crisis because the minuscule amounts of radiation that have reached California have posed no threat to human health, and the plume of irradiated air from Japan is so widespread that other equipment from Washington to Los Angeles has been able to monitor it in real time, Bandrowski said.
The 2013 ruling stated that because Section 377 had been used so infrequently, and because only a "minuscule fraction of the country's population constitute lesbians, gays, bisexuals or transgenders," the law couldn't be considered to violate Indians' constitutional rights and it was therefore "legally unsustainable" to repeal it.
The clerk at the counter seemed disgusted by my bets, perhaps because of the minuscule amount of money I'd wagered.
"This whole notion that the whole thing should be turned topsy-turvy because of a minuscule amount of J-51 benefits that were mistakenly or inadvertently allowed to continue, and then later reversed and repaid, is ludicrous," Mr. Meister said.
Local and state public health agencies in California have warned against taking potassium iodide in response to the Japanese reactor crisis, because of the minuscule chance of radiation traveling thousands of miles across the Pacific Ocean.
And Letsbuyit worked on minuscule margins, because the advantages of bulk-buying went largely to consumers.
These virtual power plants represent a huge untapped resource; not least because they require a minuscule fraction of the cost of building a new coal-fired power plant, but also because they can be far more responsive to surges in energy demand.
