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Discover LudwigThe phrase "small amount of harm" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the impact or consequences of an action that causes minimal damage or injury. Example: "The experiment resulted in a small amount of harm to the environment, but overall, the benefits outweighed the negatives."
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When I expressed anxiety that my article could perpetuate the problem, he remarked that it could "do a small amount of harm".
Here we have a situation where a piece of information technology was making decisions about the probability of nefarious activity happening that resulted in a small amount of harm to the person that it was trying to help.
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Kaplinsky said in cases where bank practices cause small amounts of harm to many consumers, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, federal prosecutors and state regulators should intervene rather than letting class-action cases set the agenda.
This way, if you don't completely rinse the tank, a small amount of residue won't harm the fish.
A small amount of petrol is little harm in a tank of diesel, indeed some would fill so purposefully to clean the engine and pass emissions tests.
The thieves were both armed with handguns and stole mobile phones and a small amount of cash, but did not harm anyone before making off.
Although lead poisoning is one of the oldest known work and environmental hazards, the modern understanding of the small amount of lead necessary to cause harm did not come about until the latter half of the 20th century.
Using simulated clinical trials in which the probability of outcomes in individual patients was stochastically determined by the presence of risk factors and the effects of treatment, we examined the relative merits of a conventional vs. a "risk-stratified" subgroup analysis under a variety of circumstances in which there is a small amount of uniformly distributed treatment-related harm.
This comforting conclusion is the foundation of modern toxicology, and is drawn from the 16th-century Swiss physician, Paracelsus, whose theory "the dose makes the poison" (ie, a small amount of a poison does you no harm) is still the dogma of contemporary chemical testing.
No safe threshold for lead exposure has been discovered that is, there is no known sufficiently small amount of lead that will not cause harm to the body.
The conclusions that can be made regarding the strength of association between ADHD and self-harm are limited due to the relatively small amount of studies that have been conducted to date.
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