Sentence examples for only a marginal contribution from inspiring English sources
Policy 33, 1167 1183] on the tennis racket industry shows that independent inventors are a heterogeneous group which includes both "heroes" who contribute substantially to technological progress and "hobbyists" who make only a marginal contribution.
Or he could opt for what I'll call the Porsche Model, one in which the most visible activity (in this case sports car manufacturing) brings only a marginal contribution to the P&L when compared to its financial activities: in 2009, Porsche made $1bn£620m0m) in profit from car sales and almost $7bn betting on Volkswagen stock.
In case, users with poor channels are served, which have only a marginal contribution to the overall sum MOS.
For VV, our results show that E3 protein accounted for almost all the anti-PKR activity in doubly infected cells, stressing the main role of this protein over the K3 product that probably has only a marginal contribution to the anti-PKR activity of the virus as suggested before [39].
These findings suggest only a marginal contribution of FABP4 to development of the early phase of LV hypertrophy and systolic dysfunction.
Health behaviors had only a marginal contribution to the association between living alone and antidepressant use among men and women, with the exception of heavy alcohol use in men.
Whilst these parameters are important for describing physical or chemical relationships between the process variables, some of them only provide a marginal contribution to the input output behavior of the system.
The overall deposition rate of the hybrid sputtering, being 0.047 μm/min as measured in this study, was governed predominantly by the three DC magnetrons whereas the HIPIMS only made a marginal contribution.
First, as shown in panel A, the mean closed time was determined mainly by the NV value, whereas MFI only had a marginal contribution (at least in the activity domain of the measured clones).
But since 2000, increased pressure from America and the EU has persuaded it to take a tougher line, as has the promise of millions of dollars of extra aid money.Laotian opium about 100 tonnes a year in the 1990s has only ever made a marginal contribution to the global drugs trade; Laos has never been in the same league as Afghanistan and Myanmar.
The only thing that's really required of us, it turns out, is our sperm -- that now fragile-seeming vehicle of our genetic selves - and in this age of cloning and reproductive miracles, that seems a marginal contribution indeed.
